DIASPORA NEWS
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A US-based software startup founded by Kenyan immigrant Diana Muturia has been selected for the first cohort of Amazon Web Service’s accelerator program for female founders.
Clyn, an online platform that connects cleaning professionals to clients, is one of 25 companies that will benefit from AWS…
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Kenyan-born murder convict Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, who is charged with killing 22 women in the US state of Texas, is set to be tried for the death of a second woman.
Chemirmir’s capital murder trial in the death of 87-year-old Mary Brooks is scheduled to commence on Monday in Dallas, CBS News…
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A fundraiser has been initiated ahead of lawyer Miguna Miguna’s return to Kenya this month after his deportation almost five years ago.
The fundraiser, dubbed “Justice For Miguna is Justice for all Kenyans”, invites all to voluntarily send contributions in aid of the attorney’s homecoming. He says…
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The family of a Kenyan teenager who was reported missing in the US state of Georgia has organized a search party on Saturday after the vehicle he was driving on the day he disappeared was found.
17-year-old Yaron Kathuri was last seen in Douglasville, Georgia wearing a white NASA hoodie and black…
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The trial of Darnell Sterling, who is accused of murdering his Kenyan girlfriend Olga Ooro in Washington, DC in 2020 began on September 13th.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan told jurors that the trial is expected to last two-and-a-half to three weeks, Keith Alexander of the The…
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A Kenyan family in Georgia is appealing for help to find their son, who has been missing for days.
Yaron Kathuri, 17, was last seen in Douglasville, Georgia, driving a gold color 1998 Lexus ES300 GA tag RKH0784, according to the family. He was wearing a white NASA hoodie and black pants.
“His…
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The parents of Hellen Wendy Nyabuto, a Kenyan student who died while swimming in Canada last month, have visited the swimming pool where she drowned.
Accompanied by other family members, Hellen’s mother and father laid flowers at the edge of the pool's seven-foot mark where their daughter lost her…
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A Kenyan family is seeking answers following the alleged murder of their daughter in Cairo, Egypt on September 23rd.
Grace Wangoi, 32, from Moi’s Bridge in Trans-Nzoia County, has been a domestic worker in the North African country for the past seven years, her family told The Standard.
Until…
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President Ruto has appointed former Machakos Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua as the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.
Mutua, who served as the governor for Machakos for two terms, takes over from Raychelle Omamo, who has been in charge of the Foreign Office since 2020.
He previously…
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Kenyan-Canadian attorney Miguna Miguna has changed his travel schedule due to “popular demand” and announced a new date for his much-anticipated return to Kenya.
Miguna had on Thursday announced that he would depart Toronto, Canada on October 24th and land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport…
