DIASPORA NEWS
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A Kenyan family is appealing for financial assistance from well-wishers to repatriate the bodies of their two kin who were found dead in their food truck in Finland.
The family from Kisumu is racing against time to bring back the bodies of Catherine Anyango, 43, and her daughter Michelle, 25, to…
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The family of a Kenyan student who drowned in Australia is appealing for financial assistance to repatriate her body to Kenya for burial.
Sharon Jepkosgei Kigen, who hailed from Moiben in Uasin Gishu County, drowned Sydney's south-west on Tuesday afternoon, 9News reported.
Sharon arrived in…
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The Treasury has rejected a plan to sell the Kenya House, the official ambassador’s residence in New York.
The Ministry of Public Works wanted the Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Ministry to put up the dilapidated building for sale on grounds that its refurbishment is not viable.
The Kenya house was…
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US-based Kenyan entrepreneur Margaret Nyamumbo has secured a $350,000 investment in her company.
This comes after she successfully pitched her coffee business model to potential investors on Shark Tank, an American business reality television series that features a panel of investors called "…
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US-based Kenyan entrepreneur Stephen Desmond Aoll has launched his own record label in Nairobi.
Dubbed CMG Records, the state-of-the-art studio will manage the careers of upcoming artistes in the country and has since unveiled its first three signees.
The fully-fledged studio has contracted the…
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A Kenyan Foreign and Diaspora Affairs officer has died while on duty abroad.
David Gathutu, who was a counselor at Kenya's High Commission in the United Kingdom, passed away after a short illness, according to Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua.
"My sincere condolences to the…
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Police in Finland have launched a probe into the mysterious deaths of a Kenyan woman and her daughter.
Catherine Anyango and her daughter Michelle were found dead inside their van in the main parking lot of the resort town of Tahko on February 9th, Nation reports.
Local media reported that…
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Saudi Arabia has emerged as the fastest-growing source of diaspora remittances to Kenya.
Business Daily Kenyans working and living in Saudi Arabia sent home $302.26 million (Sh37.78 billion) last year compared to $185.01 million (Sh23.12 billion) the previous year, representing a 63.38 percent jump…
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A 22-year-old Kenyan woman who was brutally assaulted and raped in Albania last year has died.
Joy Achieng Aoko passed away on Monday while undergoing treatment at Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital, her mother Ruth Abong’o confirmed.
“We have lost my daughter. I only hope…
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Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has appointed US-based Kenyan scholar Prof. Peter Ndiang’ui as the county’s Honorary Ambassador.
In a statement, Governor Kahiga said the position empowers Prof. Ndiang’ui to represent Nyeri in the diaspora matters, particularly in areas of education, tourism,…
