DIASPORA NEWS

A Kenyan-born woman has died in a road accident in Maryland. Hellen Kemunto Jorgensen was reportedly hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing the intersection of Ager Road and Hamilton street in West Hyattsville, Maryland. The incident happened last Friday at around 11:00 pm. Hellen hails from…

A UK-based Kenyan preacher accused of selling "plague protection kits" as a bogus cure for COVID-19 was on Monday arraigned in a London court. Appearing at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court, Bishop Climate Irungu Wiseman was charged with fraud and unfair trading offenses. The 46-year-old self-…

Malcolm Bidali, the Kenyan migrant worker charged with receiving payment to spread disinformation in Qatar, has left the Gulf nation. The 28-year-old security guard was allowed to leave Qatar on Tuesday after paying a hefty fine, according to Migrant Rights - a Gulf-based rights group.  “…

Lucy Wanjiru, a Kenyan woman based in the United Kingdom is mourning the death of her two sons who were killed in Kajiado County on August 7th. Her only sons Fredrick Mureithi Wanjiru and Victor Mwangi Wanjiru were lynched by herders in Kitengela alongside their two friends Mike Onduso and Nicholas…

A 41-year-old Kenyan woman living in the US has passed away following a DUI crash in South Carolina.  Leah Wangari Gatonye Dubs of Bluffton died at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston on August 5th, according to Beaufort County Coroner David Ott. Wangari was involved…

A Kenyan man living in the US is embroiled in a tussle with his former girlfriend’s mother, who has denied him access to his two-year-old son.   Peter Njoroge Gathiaka accuses the boy’s grandmother Hellen Waitherero Mubea of disregarding a court order allowing him to visit and bond with his…

Kenyan-born actor Gilbert Owuor is set to feature in an upcoming Hollywood action thriller film titled Emancipation. Owuor will star in the film directed by Antoine Fuqua alongside Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, and Mustafa Shakir. Emancipation is a film about a slave named Peter, who…

Kenyan-born athlete Paul Chelimo has won a medal for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics. Chelimo bagged the Bronze medal after finishing third in the men's 5,000m final behind Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and  Mohammed Ahmed of Canada. Kenya's sole representative in the race Nicholas Kimeli…

A group of about 500 Kenyans living in the diaspora has embarked on a multi-billion-shilling project in Voi, Taita Taveta County. Under the ambitious project dubbed Diaspora University Town (DUT), the group seeks to build a university, a hospital, and schools on a parcel of land donated by the…

A young Kenyan man was recently found dead in his apartment in Joplin, Missouri. The decomposing body of Christopher Njuguna Mungai was discovered in his apartment. The medical examiner said Njuguna had been deceased for about one week when his body was found. The Kenyan community in the US is…