Friday, August 7, 2026 - It is now emerging that President William Ruto’s daughter, Charlene Ruto, is set to tie the knot with her Tanzanian fiancé, Isaya Yunge, a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of SomaApp, a scholarship-matching mobile application that has helped more than 7,000 young Africans access educational opportunities.
Isaya is an influential
figure in the technology industry and has traveled across the globe, meeting
prominent world leaders and business icons, including the late Queen Elizabeth
II, former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major, former South African President
Jacob Zuma and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
He is also recognized as the
first African youth leader to speak at the G8 Summit in 2007.
In 2018, he was one of only
two Tanzanians to receive the Queen’s Young Leader Award in recognition of his
work on SomaApp.
The same year, Forbes named
him among 40 African entrepreneurs who represented the continent at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in
Boston, Massachusetts.
He was also listed among Tanzania's emerging
entrepreneurs to watch.
Besides SomaApp, Yunge
founded KAYA, an AI-powered smart speaker designed to collect and process
African-related data.
He also founded Somafit, a
smartwatch that monitors health indicators such as blood pressure and heart
rate, helping users keep track of their health in real time.
Below are photos of Isaya Yunge meeting some of the world's most influential personalities.
The
Kenyan DAILY POST.
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