DIASPORA NEWS

Authorities in the UK are set to dispose of the body of a middle-aged Kenyan man who was found dead in his house. Peter Pius Mungai alias “Petero Wamother” was discovered dead in his house in London some months ago, according to reports. Police were unable to trace Mungai’s next of kin for long and…

President Kenyatta has signed the Foreign Service Bill, 2021 into law. The Foreign Service Act bars Kenyans holding dual citizenship from serving in diplomatic positions unless they relinquish the foreign one. Section 23 of the new law stipulates that heads of missions abroad or consuls-general…

Police in Nairobi are investigating a case in which a US-based Kenyan man was conned his hard-earned money. Hamun Ibrahim Harak, who lives and works in Minnesota, was allegedly defrauded of Sh800,000 by a Nairobi man posing as an interior designer. Harak was looking for a professional interior…

A diaspora lobby has vowed to sue the Kenyan government and Air France for violating lawyer Miguna Miguna’s rights. The Diaspora for Change and Justice of Kenya Initiative says it will seek court orders compelling Air France to disclose legal reasons why it declined to fly Miguna to Nairobi. The…

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…