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The government says it cannot account for 1.5 million Kenyans living and working abroad.
Appearing before National Assembly’s Labor and Social Welfare Committee, Labor Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui said the group are among the roughly four million Kenyans in the diaspora.
He noted that the 1.5…
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A Kenyan man in Minnesota has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of attempted murder.
67-year-old Joseph Ndichu Kinyanjui of Rochester, MN was accused of attacking his wife with a hammer two years ago.
In July, an Olmsted County District Court jury convicted him of…
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A Kenyan man living in the US died following a road accident in St Louis County, Missouri over the weekend.
Godfrey Gachoka Gitau of Hazelwood, Missouri was killed after a 2006 Nissan Altima that he was driving went off the road and hit a guardrail.
The 35-year-old was ejected from his car…
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A Kenyan-born DJ was on Tuesday killed in a car accident in New Jersey. Davis M. Gwaro, alias DJ D-Vice, was driving a Honda Civic along Interstate 287 north ramp to Interstate 78 east in Bridgewater, New Jersey when the crash happened at around 1:05 am.
New Jersey State Trooper Charles Marchan…
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The bodies of three Kenyan immigrant workers who died in a grisly road accident in Qatar last week are set to be repatriated home for burial.
Daniel Kimutai, Hassan Abdalla Awale, and Daniel Ngao Maele were killed after the company mini-bus they were traveling in collided with a truck in Doha…
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Adut Akech Bior, a former refugee in Kenya, has purchased a four-bedroom house in the US. The 21-year-old South Sudan-born Australian model announced she acquired the property in Los Angeles for $2.8 million. The house, her fifth property and the first in the US has four bedrooms an open-plan…
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The family of a Kenyan woman who died in mysterious circumstances in Saudi Arabia has appealed to the government to help them pursue justice for their daughter.
This comes after a postmortem conducted on Maximilla Muhadia’s body in Nairobi revealed that she was hit multiple times on the head with a…
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The family and friends of a Kenyan man who passed away in the US recently is appealing for financial assistance to repatriate his remains to Kenya.
27-year-old Edwin Wambugu Kiarago died suddenly in a hotel in New York while on travel for work.
His family and close friends managed to transfer his…
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Kenyan-British model Rehema Muthamia has been crowned Miss England 2021.
The 25-year-old was crowned Miss England in a ceremony held in Coventry on Friday and will now represent England at the 70th Miss World competition in Puerto Rico later this year.
She received the crown together with £2,…
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A UK-based Kenyan woman whose two sons were brutally murdered last month has appealed for help to overcome the loss.
Lucy Wanjiru says she is struggling to come to terms with the death of her only children Fredrick Mureithi (30) and Victor Mwangi (25), adding that she needs counseling.
Wanjiru, who…
