DIASPORA NEWS

Kenyan-born woman Caroline Wanga has been appointed as the CEO of Essence Communications Inc, a US technology and commerce company. Wanga, 43, has been serving as the company’s CEO in an acting capacity for the past seven months following the resignation of Richelieu Dennis. She joined Essence…

The impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump started in the US Senate on Tuesday. This comes after Trump was impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2020 following the January 6th, 2020 insurrection at the US Capitol. Democrats say then-president…

Winnie Wanjiru grew up dreaming of becoming a military officer, an ambition triggered by showground visits with her dad where they watched soldiers performing. While studying at the University of Nairobi, she applied several times to join the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) in an attempt to fulfill her…

An online petition has been launched following the mysterious death of 35-year-old Kenyan-American woman Dorothy Bosibori Ongera. Dorothy, a mother of six, was found dead inside a bathtub at her house in Dallas, Texas on December 17th, 2020. Until her death, the deceased was co-habiting with a…

Kenyan musician Julius Wanemba, better known as Odhis Jahburu, has died under unclear circumstances in the US. The Luo Benga singer passed away in Allentown in Pennsylvania on Thursday, according to reports. The cause of his death remains unclear. Sources said he received two COVID-19 vaccine doses…

A Kenyan family is pleading for help from the government after their daughter was jailed for 20 years in Jordan. 33-year-old Lucy Njeri Kuria was handed the sentence by a Jordanian court in October 2019 after she was found guilty of murder. She was accused of killing her boyfriend Bakri H, a South…

A 26-year-old Kenyan man was on Thursday killed in a multiple car crash at an intersection in San Francisco, California. Sheria Musyoka was jogging when the accident happened at about 8:00 am on the northbound side of Lake Merced Boulevard at Higuera Avenue. Authorities said eight vehicles,…

A US-based Kenyan woman has been charged in connection with a $100 million home health care fraud scheme. 41-year-old Winnie Waruru of Lowell, Massachusetts was charged on Monday alongside 52-year-old Faith Newton of Westford.  Each of the two was indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit…

A Kenyan family is in agony following the mysterious death of their kin in the US. Dorothy Bosibori Ongera, a mother of six, allegedly drowned in a water tub at her house in Texas on December 17th, 2020, according to her partner Obadiah Kinara. Kinara is said to have taken her body to a funeral…

Confessed American sex pest Gregory Jones Dow has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing four underage Kenyan girls. A Pennsylvania court also ordered him to pay $16,000 (Sh1.75 million) in restitution, and subjected him to a lifetime of supervision upon release. Jennifer…