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A 41-year-old Kenyan woman living in the US has passed away following a DUI crash in South Carolina.
Leah Wangari Gatonye Dubs of Bluffton died at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston on August 5th, according to Beaufort County Coroner David Ott.
Wangari was involved…
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A Kenyan man living in the US is embroiled in a tussle with his former girlfriend’s mother, who has denied him access to his two-year-old son.
Peter Njoroge Gathiaka accuses the boy’s grandmother Hellen Waitherero Mubea of disregarding a court order allowing him to visit and bond with his…
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Kenyan-born actor Gilbert Owuor is set to feature in an upcoming Hollywood action thriller film titled Emancipation.
Owuor will star in the film directed by Antoine Fuqua alongside Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, and Mustafa Shakir.
Emancipation is a film about a slave named Peter, who…
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Kenyan-born athlete Paul Chelimo has won a medal for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics.
Chelimo bagged the Bronze medal after finishing third in the men's 5,000m final behind Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Mohammed Ahmed of Canada. Kenya's sole representative in the race Nicholas Kimeli…
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A group of about 500 Kenyans living in the diaspora has embarked on a multi-billion-shilling project in Voi, Taita Taveta County.
Under the ambitious project dubbed Diaspora University Town (DUT), the group seeks to build a university, a hospital, and schools on a parcel of land donated by the…
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A young Kenyan man was recently found dead in his apartment in Joplin, Missouri.
The decomposing body of Christopher Njuguna Mungai was discovered in his apartment. The medical examiner said Njuguna had been deceased for about one week when his body was found.
The Kenyan community in the US is…
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A US-based Kenyan pastor was last week charged with two counts of forgery and conspiracy to commit a felony.
Pastor Ismael Denis Omondi of Upendo Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas was arraigned before Kwale Senior Principal Magistrate Joe Omido on Friday.
The charge sheet states that the accused…
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Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK Manoah Esipisu has hailed Kenyan chef Joe Gatonye for being part of the team that served President Kenyatta during his visit to London last week.
Gatonye’s eatery was among the caterers selected to serve food and drinks to guests at the Global Partnership for…
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Kenyan man Oduor Abang has died in a tragic road accident in South Africa.
Oduor, a nephew to Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna, passed away on July 28th.
The deceased was the last-born son of Miguna’s cousin Prof. Ochieng’ Aoyi.
The family has made arrangements to airlift his body to Kenya…
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US-based former Kenyan footballer Vincent Kwarula has come to the rescue of a homeless family in Nairobi.
Kwarula, who was in Kenya to visit his family, bumped into Ann Wanjiru Muchina and her two-month-old son in the streets of Nairobi. Wanjiru, 32, was begging for money and food from passers-by…
