DIASPORA NEWS

A US-based Kenyan woman is taking part in a cover girl competition for Inked magazine, one of the most popular American lifestyle magazines. Wakenya Clewis, better known as Kenyan Hippie, is among the contestants listed for the competition that is entirely done online. In a recent interview with…

Police in the United Kingdom are still searching for a man who was seen entering River Avon in Bath, Somerset on Sunday, March 8th. The missing man is believed to be a Kenyan national identified as Seth Odongo Okuku, according to reports in the UK.  Local police as well as Avon fire and…

Deported Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna has accused the government of blocking his cash transactions to Kenya. Miguna, in a post through his Twitter page, claimed that attempts to send money to his relatives in Kenya via Telegram and other platforms have been successful, saying the government…

US-based Kenyan lawyer Prof. Makau Mutua has urged Deputy President William Ruto to resign, saying it is clear he had fallen out with President Uhuru. Mutua, through Twitter, likened the fallout between Uhuru and Ruto to that of founding President Jomo Kenyatta and his vice-president Jaramogi…

A Kenyan woman is currently admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a hospital in California after she collapsed shortly after landing in the US from Kenya. Peninah Mugure had traveled to Kenya for the burial of her father on December 27th last year and was returning to the US when she fainted and…

A lobby group representing Kenyans in the diaspora has asked the government to evacuate citizens who are presently stuck in South Korea following the outbreak of coronavirus. Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA), through its Chairman Shem Ochuodho, on Thursday said it received a distress letter from at…

The family of a Kenyan-born man who committed suicide while in the custody of the police at DFW International Airport in Dallas, Texas in November, 2018 has sued the airport over his death. 43-year-old Waweru Mwaura was traveling to Kenya on November 30th, 2018, when he was arrested over the…

Dallas County prosecutors have amended the charge sheet to include two more capital murder charges against suspected Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Chemirmir. This brings the total number of capital murder charges pressed against the 47-year-old resident of Dallas to 14 while civil lawsuits accuse…

Five Kenyan-born male marathoners failed to make it to the US Olympics team after they finished outside the cut-off. Elkanah Kibet, Augustus Maiyo, Leonard Korir, Samuel Kosgei, and Haron Lagat, all members of the US Army, failed to secure a spot in the team that will represent the US at the Summer…

Kenyans living and working abroad sent home Sh26 billion ($259.40 million) in January 2020, latest data by Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows. This represents a 3.6 percent growth from the Sh25 billion ($250.3 million) received in the previous month (December 2019). “The cumulative inflows in the 12…