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A court in the Massachusetts on Tuesday sentenced a 38-year-old Kenyan woman for her role in a fraud conspiracy involving romance scams and pandemic unemployment fraud.
Florence Mwende Musau of Canton, MA was sentenced by US District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 44 months in prison and 30…
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A Kenyan family is appealing for the government’s help after their daughter allegedly went missing in Saudi Arabia.
28-year-old Ann Muthoni, who was employed as a domestic worker in the Gulf nation, is said to have escaped from her employer’s house last week and run to the police after torture…
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Principal Secretary for the State Department for Diaspora Affairs Roseline Njogu has pledged to advance the interests and welfare of the approximately four million Kenyans living and working abroad.
Njogu, a lawyer by profession, was appointed as the first PS for the newly created diaspora affairs…
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The government has evacuated a Kenyan woman who was admitted to a hospital in August last year after being brutally attacked in Albania.
The State Department for Diaspora Affairs said the plane carrying Joyce Aoko, her mother and her medical team left Albania on Wednesday and would land at…
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The Canadian High Commission in Nairobi says it is looking into an alleged murder plot against Kenyan-Canadian nurse Lucy Njeri.
Njeri, a former professional athlete based in Toronto, accuses her husband Nelson Ndereba of hiring hitmen and paying them Sh1.5 million to kill her when she arrived in…
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CNN's 2022 Hero of the Year Award winner Nelly Cheboi has bagged another top award in the United States.
Cheboi, a 29-year-old Kenyan software engineer based in the US, is among the 12 winners of this year’s Elevate Prize.
She was recognized for her role in building technology labs in rural…
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The legal proceedings against the boyfriend of a missing Kenyan nursing student in the US will commence on April 3rd.
The 10-day trial for Nathan Hightman, 39, will take place in the Sixth District Court in Campbell County, with District Judge James Michael Causey presiding, according to a filing…
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Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has faulted a section of Kenyans in the diaspora for engaging in illegal businesses.
Speaking on Citizen TV's JKLive show on Wednesday, Mutua said some Kenyans brew illicit liquor in Gulf countries, where the sale and consumption of…
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A group of Kenyans in the diaspora has petitioned the government to abolish the English proficiency test for Kenyans seeking jobs abroad.
The group argues that it is illogical to subject graduates who have taken their studies from primary to university in English to such language tests.
“After…
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A Kenyan family is appealing for the government’s help to repatriate the body of their daughter who died in Saudi Arabia last month.
Sharon Andeka, 27, from Shinyalu, Kakamega County, passed away on December 30th while undergoing treatment at Shemesiy Hospital in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
The…
