DIASPORA NEWS

Police in the US state of Wyoming believe the boyfriend of a missing Kenyan-born woman may have been involved in her disappearance. 24-year-old Irene Gakwa was reported missing on March 20th this year and the last time she was seen was on February 24th when she had a video call with her parents,…

Update: Lucy has been found safe and is now with her family. A Kenyan woman has been reported missing in El Cerrito, California. Lucy Karanja was reported missing on Monday, May 9th at 11:50am. She is described is 59 years of age, stands at 5’2”, weighs180 pounds, dark skinned and wearing black…

Individuals who participated in the US Diversity Visa  program for fiscal year 2023 (DV-2023) can check if they won the lottery starting tomorrow, May 7, 2022 at 12pm EDT. RELATED: Green Card Lottery (DV-2023) Results Now Available Online The US Diversity Visa program, popularly known as the…

Suspected Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir has been sentenced to life in prison in Texas, the United States. This comes after a Dallas County jury on Thursday found him guilty of capital murder in the March 2018 death and robbery of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. Dallas Morning News…

A Kenyan-American has been elected to the city council in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Larry Mboga was elected as an at-large member of the 11-person city council on April 5th after garnering 6,674 votes. He assumed office for a 3-year term on April 19, 2022. Mboga moved to the United States…

A UK court has convicted three people of the murder of five-year-old boy Logan Mwangi whose father is a Kenyan.  The Cardiff Crown Court found Logan's mother Angharad Williamson (31), his stepfather John Cole (40), and a 14-year-old boy guilty of murdering the deceased. The three abused and…

A US-based Kenyan-born businessman and his wife will receive $150,000 (Sh17.3 million) after they were racially profiled by police in Tiburon city, California. Yema Khalif, who was born in Kibera slums in Nairobi, and his spouse Hawi Awash said they were racially profiled when a police officer…

ODM leader Raila Odinga on Sunday held a town hall meeting with Kenyans living and working in Washington, DC. Odinga, who arrived in the US on Saturday for a week-long tour, briefed Kenyans in the US on the state of the country, election preparations, and his post-election plans for Kenya and the…

Kenyans abroad sent home $363.6 million (Sh42 billion) in March, setting a new monthly record for the diaspora flows. This represents a 25 percent growth in inflows from $290.8 million (Sh33.6 billion) received in the same month last year, according to the latest data from the Central Bank of Kenya…

An autopsy has revealed that Kenyan-Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee Mutua was strangled to death. Speaking after a post-mortem conducted at the Iten County Referral Hospital mortuary, Keiyo North DCIO Andalo Munga said the cause of death was general strangulation. “This resulted in asphyxiation and…