The Kenyan shilling traded flat against the dollar on Thursday, as the long-dormant interbank market picked up steam, helping to meet foreign exchange demand, traders said.
Stanbic Bank Uganda reported a 37.5% jump in pretax profit for last year, boosted by a surge in customer deposits and credit, results published on Wednesday showed.
Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case that opened on Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government's "woefully inadequate" efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights.
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will raise its key policy interest rate by 25 basis points to 9.00% later on Wednesday in its latest move to brake still-rising inflation, a Reuters poll predicted.
Premier African Minerals said on Wednesday it had finished building a lithium processing plant at its Zulu mine in Zimbabwe and expected to start production of spodumene concentrate later this week.