DIASPORA NEWS

Kenyans living and working abroad sent home $339.7 million (approximately Sh40 billion) in the month of May 2022, according to the latest data by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). This represents a 7.6 percent increase in diaspora inflows compared to $315.8 million (approximately Sh37.1 billion)…

Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna has sued Interior CS Fred Matiang’i and PS Karanja Kibicho over his unlawful deportation from Kenya. Miguna is seeking damages exceeding USD$15 million, according to suit papers filed at the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada, on Thursday. …

Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna has slammed the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for notifying him to file tax returns ahead of the June 30th deadline. In an e-mail sent to Miguna, KRA said that records showed he was yet to file his returns for last year and urged him to do so to avoid further…

Kenyan nationals are among 10 foreigners and five Indians who were arrested in the Indian state of Telangana over the weekend for violating Excise rules. Indian publication The Hindu reported that the 15 suspects were found partying at a low-key farmhouse at Sriram Nagar town in Ranga Reddy…

US-based Kenyan-born scholar Jonathan Choti has won the 2022 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. Choti, an assistant professor of African languages and cultures at Michigan State University, received the prestigious fellowship to co-develop and strengthen curriculum, grow research, and…

Roots Party presidential candidate Prof. George Wajackoyah says his family is in the process of acquiring Kenyan citizenship and join him in the country. Wajackoyah, who is among the four candidates cleared to vie for the presidency on August 9th, divulged that his wife, an American, lives in the…

Abdiaziz Ibrahim, a Kenyan community leader based in the US state of Minnesota, has received the prestigious annual Bush Fellowship. Ibrahim and 23 other fellowship winners for 2022 were selected out of nearly 500 applicants from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and 23 Native American nations…

A Kenyan-born man serving in the US Army made history after winning the 2022 Bolder Boulder 10K race last week. Staff Sgt. Leonard Korir, a marathon runner assigned to the US Army World Class Athlete Program, clocked 29:28, becoming the first American to win the men's professional race in 36 years…

Nathan Hightman, the American man accused of withdrawing and using money from the bank accounts of his missing Kenyan-born girlfriend without permission has pleaded not guilty to all charges leveled against him.  His attorney Steven Titus on Thursday said his client pleaded not guilty to all…

Police in Mumbai, India are holding a 50-year-old Kenyan man who attacked and injured eight pedestrians in a fit of rage on Wednesday. The Times of India reported that John Sudams Menty stabbed the victims with a knife near Fashion Street in south Mumbai at around 4:10 local time. Four injured…