DIASPORA NEWS

Besieged Opposition politician Miguna Miguna says he is admitted at a Hospital in Toronto, Canada. In a tweet, the self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general said that toxicological tests were being conducted on him by doctors at the Sunnybtook Health Science Center in Toronto. The…

Self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna claims that the citizenship saga is a cover-up by the government to prosecute him over his role in the mock swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as people's president on January 30th. Speaking during an interview with…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna could soon return to the country following a ruling on Saturday by the High Court. While hearing a case filed by Miguna on Saturday, Justice Chacha Mwita ruled that the fiery opposition lawyer must be physically present in court…

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is intervening in the immigration case of Dr Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama, a Kenyan professor at Augsburg who has been given 90 days by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave the United States. Gov. Dayton on Wednesday sent a letter to acting Director of…

Two Kenyan-Americans are among five suspects charged in connection with the shooting of a 25-year-old father of three in Cobb County, Georgia two weeks ago. 18-year-old Maria Mungai of Acworth, GA and Charlton Kariuki of Smyrna, GA have been charged in the March 23rd shooting of Daniel Perez, 25,…

Equity Bank has cut down withdrawal charges on its Equity PayPal service in a bid to grow the share of Kenyan diaspora inflows. Users will now be charged as low as one per cent on large withdrawals made from PayPal account in the new tariffs. Equity has in the past been charging 1.5 per cent of the…

A Kenyan professor, Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama has been issued with a 90-day ultimatum to leave the United States after his appeal for asylum was denied. Wanyama will be deported to Kenya should he fail to leave the US by July 14th.  The scholar, who has been working as an English professor at…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna has once again blamed Opposition leader Raila Odinga for his last week forceful removal from the country by Kenyan Immigration authorities. Miguna was last week thrown out of Kenya after being held at the Jomo Kenyatta…

Deported opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna's supporters will on Thursday hold a peaceful protest in the United Kingdom in solidarity with him. In a post on his social media pages, Miguna said the supporters will hold the demos outside the British Parliament in Westminster, London at 2 pm. The self-…

Deported lawyer Miguna Miguna has dared Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, who he referred to as convicted criminal, to press charges against him over claims that he fraudulently acquired his now confiscated passport. Speaking when he appeared before Parliamentary Committee on National…