DIASPORA NEWS

Wed, 03/20/2013 01:04 PM | By Mwakilishi

The Kenya embassy in Washington, DC has announced the arrival of a new Deputy Chief of Mission. Ambassador Jean Njeri Kamau joined the embassy on February 25, 2013 and brings over 20 years of experience working in both the private and public sector, says a statement from...

Tue, 03/19/2013 07:20 PM | By Mwakilishi

A convicted drug dealer who smashed his Audi in to a wall – and then tried to report it stolen has been jailed for a year.

Patrol police caught the strong smell of cannabis as Kenneth Muthoni, 25, drove past them in his Audi A3. But Muthoni refused to stop – an...

Tue, 03/19/2013 03:12 PM | By Mwakilishi

An American university is celebrating the election of six of its former students and lecturers in the March 4 Kenya polls.

Tucked 7,000 miles away in Canton, Northern New York, St. Lawrence University said on its website that it wished well two former students...

Tue, 03/19/2013 12:03 PM | By Mwakilishi

A Senate panel passed a bill on Monday that would let illegal immigrants get a Minnesota driver's license, the most recent development in a push at the Capitol to train and insure more drivers who aren't U.S. citizens.

Tue, 03/19/2013 12:42 AM | By Mwakilishi

Liverpool are interested in Celtic midfielder Victor Wanyama. The Daily Mail says Reds manager Brendan Rodgers has had the 21-year-old watched extensively and is ready to make a move in the summer window.

Rodgers has made strengthening his defence a pr...

Sun, 03/17/2013 10:01 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyan film Nairobi Half Life is set to be screened in 100 movie theaters in the United States on Thursday, March 21st only.. The movie’s audience at each of the 100 theaters will vote on whether the movie should return at...

Sat, 03/16/2013 11:04 AM | By Mwakilishi

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 cap on Monday, April 1, 2013. Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS receives a properly filed petition for...

Fri, 03/15/2013 12:08 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyan students studying abroad are becoming an easy target for developers who are building high-end student residences. Inventors abroad have noticed the Kenyans’ love for lavish apartments and are busy developing residences that meet this demand.

Thu, 03/14/2013 08:58 PM | By Mwakilishi

Maria Githua, a university student at Meredith College in the United States, is a doing a research on mobile money payment systems in Kenya as part of her Honors Senior thesis.

She is kindly requesting Kenyans who run businesses and use M-Pesa (both in Kenya an...

Thu, 03/14/2013 08:58 AM | By Mwakilishi

A Kenyan acrobat fell through a safety net during a show at a Moscow circus on and was rushed to a hospital with severe injuries including a fractured vertebra.

An amateur video aired on Russian television showed 22-year-old Karo Christopher Kazungu falling thr...

Tue, 03/12/2013 10:42 PM | By Mwakilishi

In order to grow their economies, nations across Africa have long been trying to figure out how to stop the brain drain—the best and the brightest African students going to school in the U.S. and the U.K. and not bringing their talents back to Africa.

Tue, 03/12/2013 03:33 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenya native Patrick Rono over the weekend helped his University of Arkansas athletics program win the 2013 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship.

Patrick, 20 years old and a sophomore, is a 2012 All-American and a two-time SEC Indoor Freshman Runner of the...

Tue, 03/12/2013 11:27 AM | By Mwakilishi

All Kenyans and friends of Kenya have reason to celebrate. Come celebrate the completion of a historic, peaceful, and democratic election.

When: Saturday 3/16/13
Where: Elimu Tutoring and Training Center - 1713 Taylor Ave, Baltimore, MD 21234
Time: 3p...

Tue, 03/12/2013 01:44 AM | By Mwakilishi

USA-based Kenyan recording artist Victoria Kimani has released a video for her new single titled M’toto. Victoria is a sister to Kenyan rapper Bamboo who recently relocated back to Kenya from the USA. She is currently signed to Nigerian music label Chocolate City...

Mon, 03/11/2013 03:17 PM | By Mwakilishi

A new online service is now enabling Kenyans in Diaspora have access to live Television from anywhere around the world.

Enlyt TV has partnered with Kenyan national broadcasting stations NTV, QTV, KBC, and KTN to prov...

Mon, 03/11/2013 02:31 PM | By Mwakilishi

An aeronautics engineering graduate today denied knowing he had terrorist literature on his computer. Norman Idris Faridi, 32, said the documents, including a copy of al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine, were among items he downloaded from the internet.

But he had not...

Sun, 03/10/2013 12:18 PM | By Mwakilishi

Watch here promos of the new Diaspora Home & Abroad TV show.  Diaspora Home & Abroad is an entertainment television show that focuses on the experiences and lifestyles of Africans, especially Kenyans living abroad.

Fri, 03/8/2013 06:39 PM | By Mwakilishi

TakeOver DJs, a Kenyan DJ group based in the US along with African Ciity Group has landed a live weekend broadcast with V-103 The People’s Station, Atlanta’s urban radio station.

Thu, 03/7/2013 05:14 PM | By Mwakilishi

The wife of a Kenyan man in Des Moines, Iowa beaten unconscious in a carjacking last week is seeking financial help from the community with the mounting medical bills for the husband as he remain in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Thu, 03/7/2013 01:02 PM | By Mwakilishi

Shukran Hussein Gure, a former resident of Minnesota, USA who returned to Kenya mid last year to contest in the elections has been elected Garissa County Women’s Representative on a Wiper Democratic Party ticket.

In her victory speech, Shukran pledged to help e...

Mon, 03/4/2013 01:07 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyans living in the US held a peace vigil yesterday at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on the eve of today’s Kenya general elections.

Watch a video below as Baltimore’s Master Gee interviews John Muchiri of Columbia, Maryland, who calls on Kenyans to rema...

Sun, 03/3/2013 07:12 PM | By Mwakilishi

Lucy Wachira, a Kenyan student at North Carolina Central University, seeks adult Kenyan males (18 years or older) from all over the United States who would be willing to participate in her thesis study titled “Kenyan Adult Males: Exploring the Impact of Migration and Sugg...

Sun, 03/3/2013 06:23 PM | By Mwakilishi

Watch a video below by Citizen TV's Janet Mbugua in which Kenyans in the United States share their views on the Kenya elections taking place tomorrow.

Janet Mbugua talks to Mkawasi Mcharo-Hall - a playwright and radio host based in Washington, DC, Dr E...

Sat, 03/2/2013 11:53 AM | By Mwakilishi

Safari DC Restaurant & Lounge in Washington, DC is back open under new management and will be screening Live on TV the historic Kenya elections on Monday, March 4, 2013.

Safari, located at 4306 Georgia Ave, Washington, DC 20011, has been newly refurbished a...

Sat, 03/2/2013 10:25 AM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyans living abroad say they feel cheated about not being able to vote in Monday's closely contested election, even though the millions of dollars in remittances they send back home each year are a major fillip to east Africa's biggest economy.

There are an e...

Fri, 03/1/2013 08:54 PM | By Mwakilishi

Cash remittances from abroad were up in January 2013 by 14.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2012.

Data from Central Bank of Kenya released Friday shows that Kenyans living abroad remitted some Sh8.96 billion ($103 million) in January 2013 compared to S...

Fri, 03/1/2013 01:14 PM | By Mwakilishi

As Kenya prepares for one of the most important elections in its history –one watched closely across the globe -- AudioNow announced today a dozen radio stations in Kenya where U.S. Kenyan diaspora audiences can receive live coverage of the March 4th presidential election...

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