DIASPORA NEWS
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US-based Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo on Friday made history after he delivered a lecture at Canada’s Carleton University.
Madowo, who is a North America correspondent for the BBC, became the first-ever black person to deliver an address in the university’s annual School of Journalism keynotes,…
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Popular global payments company, WorldRemit has reduced transaction fees for remittances to Africa.
The lowered transfer costs are aimed at enabling Africans in the diaspora to send more cash to their families back home via WorldRemit App or website.
WorldRemit management said the move is in line…
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A lobby group for Kenyans in the diaspora has urged voters to reject plans to amend the 2010 Constitution through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
Commonwealth Voter Privileges Right Association (COVPRA) says the BBI report failed to accommodate the views of all Kenyans and warned that a…
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The Kenyan embassy in Bahrain has sent out a notice warning Kenyans in the Middle East nation against engaging in illegal activities.
The embassy in a notice dated November 23rd expressed concerns over the high number of Kenyans breaking the law.
“On a regular basis, the Ministry of…
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Kenyan comedian David Kangogo, alias David The Student, has gone into quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 in the US.
David, who works in the US as a Lyft driver, announced he had contracted the infection through his Facebook page.
“I got diagnosed with Covid-19. I now am quarantined and…
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Kenyan immigrants in the US have been listed among the top spreaders of Tuberculosis (TB).
A report published by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranked Kenyan immigrants as the fifth-highest transmitters of the bacterial disease behind their counterparts from Somalia,…
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Kenyans in the diaspora have continued to defy the financial crisis occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic by sending home more cash.
The diaspora sent home Sh28.8 billion ($263.2 million) in October, according to the latest data by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). In the same month last year, Sh24.6…
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Mama Victoria Mercy Nyaithiru, the mother of the Supreme Court of Kenya judge Njoki Ndungu has been cremated in the US.
Her remains were incinerated in a private ceremony held on Thursday in Utica, New York while a memorial service was held virtually on Saturday.
Mama Nyaithiru succumbed to cancer…
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Kenyan comedian David Kangogo, alias ‘David The Student’, was recently subjected to racial abuse in the US.
The incident happened on Tuesday in Issaquah, Washington after David, who works as a Lyft driver, picked a man and woman outside a local sports grill.
But hell broke loose after David, 30,…
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The Kenyan Embassy in Paris, France has announced new measures aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Under the new guidelines published by the Kenyan Ambassador to France Judi Wakhungu, services will only be provided on an appointment basis.
Amb. Wakhungu said people will be given a specific…
