DIASPORA NEWS
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A UK-based Kenyan engineer has won a court battle against his aunt over a prime parcel of land in Uthiru, Nairobi.
On Tuesday, Justice Oguttu Mboya of the Environment and Lands Court ordered Rachel Nduta Mwaura to vacate and hand over the one-acre property to her nephew Raoul Emanuel Muchene within…
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Kenyan nurse June Onkundi, who was stabbed to death by a patient in North Carolina last week, will be laid to rest in the United States, her family has said.
Her brother Abaga Sagero says the family decided to bury her in the US given that her four children, a boy and three girls aged between 9 and…
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More than $18,000 has been raised to cover the funeral cost of June Onkundi, a Kenyan psychiatric nurse who was killed by a patient while on duty in Durham, North Carolina on October 18th.
Over $18,000 of the $100,000 target has been raised through a GoFundMe (https://gofund.me/bf249a5c)…
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Police in Douglasville, Georgia on Saturday found human remains in an area where missing 17-year-old Kenyan boy Yaron Kathuri was last seen.
The remains were discovered in an area between Arbor Station and Douglas Boulevard, one of the last known locations that the teenager was known to be at,…
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An American man was this month found guilty of murder in the 2020 killing of his Kenyan girlfriend Olga Ooro whose body has never been found.
Darnell Sterling, 57, of Southeast DC, was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury on October 4th following a trial in D.C. Superior Court. He was also…
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A Kenyan family in the US state of North Carolina is mourning the death of their kin, who was killed at her place of work on Tuesday afternoon.
June Onkundi, a mental health nurse practitioner, was stabbed to death by a patient at the Freedom House Recovery Center in Durham, WRAL News reported.…
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A family from Kangundo, Machakos County is appealing to the government to help repatriate the body of their daughter, who died under unclear circumstances in Saudi Arabia about two months ago.
28-year-old Mercy Sakim, who served as a domestic worker in the Gulf country, is reported to have died…
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Kenyans living and working abroad sent home $318 million (Sh38.5 billion) in September, 2022, the latest data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows.
September’s diaspora inflows represent a 2.6 percent increase compared to $309.8 million (Sh37.5 billion) received in the same month in 2021, CBK…
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A Kenyan family is seeking answers after their daughter died under mysterious circumstances in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Margaret Ruguru Waweru, who served as a domestic worker in the Middle East country, was in constant communication with her family until March this year when she suddenly went silent…
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The family of a Kenyan teenager reported missing in Douglasville, Georgia last week says their son recently battled depression and suicidal ideation.
Yaron Kathuri, 17, was last seen around 8 a.m. on September 28th on the 5800 block of Chapel Village Court in Douglassville. His parents Andrew…
