DIASPORA NEWS

Confessed American sex pest Gregory Jones Dow has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing four underage Kenyan girls. A Pennsylvania court also ordered him to pay $16,000 (Sh1.75 million) in restitution, and subjected him to a lifetime of supervision upon release. Jennifer…

Kenyan women living and working in the US have opened up on why most love relationships with Kenyan men are not working. A majority of women interviewed by the Nairobian laid the blame on Kenyan men for the current state of affairs. Sarah Mwangi, who works as an auditor in the US, says Kenyan men…

A federal judge has ordered Baltimore County (Maryland) to pay a Kenyan-owned church $375,000 in a religious discrimination suit. The case was filed in 2017 by Jesus Christ is the Answer Ministries Inc. and Reverend Lucy Ware, a Kenyan native, after the county rejected its plans to use a house…

The family of a Kenyan woman who died under mysterious circumstances in Saudi Arabia is appealing for help to airlift her remains to Kenya for burial. 41-year-old Alice Kagea, who hailed from Mau Summit in Molo, Nakuru County, was working in the Gulf nation until her death in December 2020. Her…

A Kenyan woman based in Denmark is appealing to well-wishers to help her raise funds for her ailing daughter’s treatment. Mary Kathure Mithika says her one-year-old daughter, Ayah was diagnosed with a rare condition known as spinal muscular atrophy. Ayah needs to undergo gene therapy that costs $2.…

A Kenyan family has decried the decision by the US Embassy in Nairobi to reject their applications for visas. Six members of the family were seeking to travel to the US to attend the burial of their kin, Jane Wambui Muguku, who passed away on December 30th, 2020, after a long illness.  The…

Suspected Kenyan drug and wildlife trafficker, Mansur Mohamed Surur was on Tuesday charged in a New York court, a day after he was extradited to the US from Kenya. Surur, 60, was charged with conspiracy to traffic tons of elephant ivory and rhino horns, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and…

Kenyans in the diaspora have come out to express their displeasure over the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Bill, 2020.  The bill sponsored by Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata seeks to encourage Kenyans abroad to invest back home by offering them special incentives, including…

Christine Wawira, a Kenyan actress based in the US, has revealed plans to set up birth centers in Kenya with an aim of reducing the infant mortality rate. Wawira said she is passionate about maternal health, adding that she is a certified childbirth hypnosis instructor. She indicated that she took…

A Kenyan woman living and working in the UK is currently stranded in Nairobi after she was barred from traveling. 36-year-old Doreen Kathambi is an NHS worker attached to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where she serves as a dietetic assistant. She lives in Glasgow with her fiancé, Iain…