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A Kenyan runner allegedly outpaced two bears that were baying for his blood in a wooded area in Maine, United States. Moninda Marube, 38, narrated to a local media on how he encountered two bears while on an 18 mile early morning training in a wooded area.
Marube, a student at University of Maine,…
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Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz on Saturday, July 1st graced the Independence Day Celebrations/Family Fun Day, an event held each year by the Kenyan community in Baltimore, Maryland
Kamenetz, a big advocate for immigrants’ right, pledged to use his authority to make sure immigrant…
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A record crowd of over a thousand Kenyan-Americans gathered at Gunpowder Falls State Park in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, July 1st for the Annual July 4th Celebrations/Family Fun Day.
The event, which coincides with the American Independence Day holiday, brings together hundreds of families…
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A Kenyan man was on Thursday shot and killed by police in Marietta, Georgia on Thursday. Police say Joel Gatu Muturi, 23, of Marietta, tried to run over members of the Cobb Marietta Smyra Narcotics squad with his car. The anti-narcotics squad was serving a search warrant on Joel at the Liberty…
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The body of a Kenyan man was recovered from a river in South Carolina on Tuesday. Fredrick Ochieng Babu, 35, went swimming at Congaree River near downtown Columbia on Sunday with a group of three other people.
One of the people overcame the water to safety while two others were rescued alive on…
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United States-based Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o has withdrawn from an annual Swedish book fair in protest of the presence of a right-wing extremist Newspaper, his publisher revealed on Wednesday. The Kenyan literary icon is said to have written an email to his Swedish Publisher, Modernista…
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A section of Kenyans living in the diaspora have collaborated with the National Super Alliance (NASA) national campaign team to form a group that will lead in Raila Odinga’s campaigns in the diaspora.
A team comprising of 12 individuals will spearhead mobilizing of NASA supporters in Africa,…
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Dubai police department is coordinating with the Kenyan government in search of a Kenyan woman who left behind her five-month-old child with an Ethiopian maid in a hotel apartment in Dubai.
Al Qusais police station director Col. Yousuf Al Adidi confirmed that he received a report from the maid who…
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It was a moment of pride for Kenya when Lucy Gichuhi, a Kenyan native from Nyeri County was elected to the Australian Senate, becoming the first Black African in history to be elected to the country’s senate. In her recent maiden speech, Ms. Gichuhi narrated her experience in getting her way as a…
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A woman in Kansas City, Missouri was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in prison after she was found guilty of entering into a sham marriage with a Kenyan immigrant. 24 year-old Tierra Ofield pleaded guilty in March this year before a Judge in a U.S. District Court in Kansas City to charges of…
