DIASPORA NEWS

A Texas court has allowed a Kenyan man to exhume the body of his daughter Dorothy Bosibori Ong’era, who died in December 2020. Judge Brooke Allen of the Texas Probate court on Tuesday gave Mr. David Ong’era the full rights to exhume Dorothy’s remains and have an autopsy conducted to establish the…

Lawyer Miguna Miguna has spoken out after he was barred from traveling to Kenya on Monday. Miguna, who was illegally deported to Canada in 2018, was set to fly into the country on Tuesday but was blocked from boarding an Air France flight at Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany. Air France…

Lawyer Miguna Miguna has threatened to sue US-based Kenyan scholar Prof. Makau Mutua over sexual assault allegations. This comes after the two were embroiled in a heated spat on Twitter over the weekend, with Mutua claiming that Miguna was facing rape and sexual coercion charges in Toronto courts.…

Kenyans in the diaspora sent home $337.4 million (Sh37.8 billion) in October, setting a new monthly record. This represents a 28.2 percent jump from the $263.1 million (Sh29.5 billion) remitted in the same month last year. The United States remained the largest source of diaspora remittances to…

Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna’s bid to return to Kenya has hit a snag after he was barred from boarding a Nairobi-bound flight. Through Twitter on Monday, Miguna said Air France officials at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany said they cannot fly him to Kenya after the government…

The capital murder trial of suspected Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir is set to kick off next week. This comes after 12 jurors and two alternates were chosen on Wednesday for Chemirmir’s trial in the 2018 smothering of an elderly woman and theft of her jewelry. Seven women and…

Lawyer Miguna Miguna has given details about his flight ahead of his expected arrival in Nairobi on Tuesday. Miguna, who was illegally deported to Canada in February 2018, says he will travel from Berlin (Germany) to Nairobi via Paris (France) on Monday using an Air France flight. The Kenyan-…

Lawyer Miguna Miguna has vowed to proceed with his planned journey to Kenya despite Friday’s court ruling. In an application, Miguna wanted the court to lift red alerts issued by the Kenyan government to Lufthansa German Airlines and Air France to allow him to travel to the country on Tuesday next…

A diaspora chapter of the Strugglers Movement, which was launched in Kenya last month, has been unveiled in the US. Dr. Rodah Wang’ondu, the president of the diaspora chapter, reiterated the movement’s support for ODM leader Raila Odinga’s 2022 presidential bid. The chapter said it will organize…

The UK government has halted the recruitment of Kenyan healthcare workers with immediate effect. The UK Department of Health and Social Care (NHS) said the freeze is meant to ensure Kenya does not suffer a shortage of health workers. Kenyan healthcare workers who had already received job offers in…