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US-based Kenyan lawyer Prof. Makau Mutua has hit out at Kenyans at home for treating their compatriots in the diaspora with contempt.
In an opinion piece published in Sunday Nation, Mutua reckons that Kenyans in Kenya loathe fellow citizens living abroad but love their money.
The 61-year-old…
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Deported Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna has dismissed reports about his alleged secret meeting with Deputy President William Ruto in Europe.
Miguna was forced to set the record straight after reports on social media claiming that he held a meeting with DP Ruto in Vienna, Austria about two…
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Five Kenyan men are set to be deported from Bahrain after they assaulted and badly injured their compatriot in the Gulf nation.
The five were arrested by Bahrain authorities after beating up the Kenyan man identified only as Ramadhan during a scuffle at their hostel last week, according to…
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A 15-year-old Kenyan-born girl who went missing in Potsdam, Germany last week was on Tuesday found dead.
The body of the teen identified only as Britney was found floating on water by a man who had gone fishing along River Havel on Tuesday afternoon.
The body was discovered near the spot where her…
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Police in Potsdam, Germany are looking for a teenage Kenyan girl who went missing from their home a week ago.
The 15-year-old girl identified only as Britney disappeared on October 15th following a quarrel with her parents, according to Mkenya Mjerumani, a diaspora news website.
She left their home…
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US-based Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o once again missed out on the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ahead of the announcement for the 2018 and 2019 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, Ngugi was among writers considered favorites for the title, according to betting site Unibet
Other…
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Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma was on Monday given two days to file her response in a petition lodged by President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea, Mwende Mwinzi.
The High Court made the order on Monday after a lawyer from Attorney General’s office…
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Members of Parliament last week rejected a report on the welfare of Kenyan immigrants working in Saudi Arabia.
This came after they accused the National Assembly Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, which went on a fact-finding mission in the Middle East nation, of doing shoddy work.
In a heated…
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Renowned Kenyan author Professor John Mbiti has passed away aged.
Prof. Mbiti died on Sunday while undergoing medication at a hospital in Switzerland, according to The Standard.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga and US-based Kenyan scholar Prof. Makau Mutua are among those who…
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Police in India arrested a 36-year-old Kenyan woman accused of running a drug trafficking ring in the Asian country.
Mariam Mweke was arrested in New Delhi last week after a seven-month chase, according to The Times of India.
Authorities placed a Rs50,000 bounty on her head after she jumped bail…
