DIASPORA NEWS

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A Kenyan man in Uganda is facing land grabbing and forceful evictions of rightful owners from their land in Luweero district on the outskirts of Uganda capital, Kampala. Ambrose Wekesa Murunga, a security expert who controversially became one of the most powerful people in Uganda’s police force and…
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Controversial UK-based Kenyan preacher Gilbert Deya has moved to the Court seeking to have the police restrained from harassing him when he lands in Kenya from the United Kingdom to face charges relating to his “miracle babies" fiasco. In an application before Lady Justice Ngenye Macharia on…
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Dr Jane Irungu, a Kenyan-born college administrator has been appointed as the director of the University of Oklahoma’s Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies. Irungu, who will begin her new role on August 2nd, joins the Oklahoma from the University of Oregon, where she has been serving as…
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Former US-based Kenyan Presidential candidate Japheth Kaluyu has come out to defend himself against claims by some of his former classmates, who accused him of being an opportunist using his American drawl to cast an image of sophistication and class while his extended family languishes in poverty…
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Controversial Kenyan preacher Gilbert Deya will be extradited to Kenya in a few days after the court in the United Kingdom rejected his extradition appeal. The 65-year-old has been on the wanted list in Kenya for human trafficking charges since 2004. He came to the limelight years ago after…
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has achieved global recognition after starting an investment management company that currently manages assets worth about $800 million. Edwin Dande and three of his colleagues founded Cytonn Investments in 2014 an alternative investment management and real estate company. The…
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As part of its continuous Diaspora market outreach, ABC Bank is on a two- day tour of Qatar  where it will meet Kenyans living there. The team will pitch tent in Doha, at the Concorde Hotel on the 14th and 15th July, where it will join members of the Corniche Diaspora Sacco and other Kenyans.…
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The Kenyan diaspora has significantly come of age and has steadily ingrained itself deeply in all activities undertaken within and without its national borders, not only economically through investments and remittances, but also in political and corporate activities. Kenyans have steadily continued…
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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…