DIASPORA NEWS

A video of a Nairobi-based woman bashing Kenyans in the United States has emerged on social media.  In the undated video posted on Facebook, the lady who only identifies herself as Nana tells Kenyans living in the US go give their compatriots back home ‘a break.’ “Acheni kutusumbua tafadhali,…

Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga has come to the defense of President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi. Odinga wants MPs to rescind their decision to force Ms. Mwinzi to renounce her United States citizenship before taking up the…

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale says President Kenyatta was misled into appointing Kenyan-American Mwende Mwinzi as Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea. Duale insisted that Parliament will not allow Ms. Mwende to take up the position before renouncing her United States Citizenship…

A diaspora lobby has condemned Kenyan MPs for forcing President Uhuru’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi to renounce her US citizenship before taking up the position. In a statement on Wednesday, the Kenya Community Abroad (KCA) accused MPs of hypocrisy, adding…

The March 9th, 2018 handshake between President Uhuru and ODM leader Raila Odinga was as a result of blackmail from Western powers, Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has claimed. Mudavadi made the claim when he addressed a meeting of Kenyans living in the diaspora during his…

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has called for repealing of constitutional provisions that bar Kenyans holding dual citizenship from taking up State positions or seeking election to office. Mudavadi said Kenyans should not be denied the chance to serve their motherland by…

MPs could retract their decision approving the nomination of Kenyan-American, Mwende Mwinzi as Kenyan High Commissioner to Seoul, South Korea. In a report tabled on Wednesday, Parliament’s Committee on Implementation urged the House to rescind its decision approving Mwende’s nomination by President…

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi is currently on a tour to the United States. Mudavadi’s delegation comprising Sabatia MP Alfred Agoi, his Nambale counterpart Bunyasi Sakwa, and former Lamu Governor Issa Timamy and ANC Secretary-General Barrack Muluka among other leaders landed…

For the second month in a row, Kenya diaspora remittances have slumped in what is attributed to the expiry of the tax amnesty offered by the government for Kenyans to repatriate wealth stashed abroad. Kenyans living and working overseas sent home $214 million (Sh22.2 billion) in the month of August…

President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenyan High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi claims that she is being discriminated against by Kenyan MPs. Speaking during an interview with The Sunday Standard, Mwende, a Kenyan-American, said MPs were taking advantage of the fact that she was born in the…