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Kenyan born, UK-based Professor Magdalene Odundo has been named the new Chancellor of United Kingdom University for the Creative Arts (UCA).
The world-renowned artist and former student at UCA will take the role of UCA Chancellor in June 2018.
Professor Odundo has seen her ceramic art work…
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High Court in South Sudan has acquitted six of 16 people accused of stealing millions of dollars from the Office of the President.
The 16, including four Kenyans, were accused of having a hand in the disappearance of over $14 million and 30 million South Sudanese pounds.
They were handed a life…
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Huge remittances by Kenyans living abroad has forced Kenya Commercial Bank (CBK) to court the diaspora community.
Data from Central Bank of Kenya revealed that diaspora remittances to Kenya rose to Sh92 billion in the first half of 2017, a four per cent increase from the Sh88.3 billion reported in…
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A newly released documentary has revealed the silent challenges that Kenyan immigrants living in the United States go through.
'Diaspora Dispatches', written, produced and directed by Kaba Mbugua was released in Raleigh, North Carolina, and features confessions by a number of Kenyans who candidly…
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The Equity Insurance Agency has unveiled a new medical cover targeting Kenyans living in the diaspora to benefit their loved ones back home.
Dubbed ‘Equimed’, the new medical insurance cover is reliable, affordable and flexible. Equimed is underwritten by Britam Insurance Company and caters for…
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A National Super Alliance (NASA) diaspora fundraising group is entangled in accountability wrangle over Kshs. 1.7M it raised for Raila Odinga campaigns in the run to August 8th elections.
Claims of embezzlement of the funds has resulted to unceremonious closure of a diaspora WhatsApp group that…
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Kenya's ambassador to the US and a US-based Kenyan legal scholar have offered distinct assessments of the Kenya Supreme Court ruling that nullified President Uhuru's victory.
Speaking during the 10th annual Kenya Scholars and Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, Ambassador Njeru Githae and…
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National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate Raila Odinga's campaign has been bolstered by opposition supporters in the diaspora who raised 1.8 million in hours for the endeavor and still contributing.
So far, 156 NASA supporters living in the United States have pooled together $18,060 (…
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Joyce Wanjiru Chege, 48 years old, was found dead at her home in the UK by her boss. Efforts by the police and others to locate her next of kin have been fruitless.
Unless someone claims her body by Tuesday, September 12th, the UK government will bury her.
Joyce was born in October 15th, 1969. She…
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A Kenyan man who appealed his one year sentence for drug related charges has instead been handed seven years jail term by an appeal court in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The 28-year-old Kenyan man had been sentence for one year and a fine of Dhs20,000 by a junior court, but decided to appeal…
