DIASPORA NEWS

A diaspora investment group has accused lawyer Isolina Kinyua of conning them Sh1.8 million and wants the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to take action against her. Royal Women Investment Company, which is made up of seven Kenyans based in the diaspora, says it hired the attorney’s law firm Isolina…

Kenyans abroad sent home $336.7 million (Sh36.9 billion) in July, breaking the previous monthly record of $315.8 million (Sh34 billion) set in May. The July diaspora remittances represent a 21.6 percent growth compared to $277 million (Sh30.4 billion) received in the same month in 2020. Cumulative…

A Kenyan doctor has been named the best black African university student in the United Kingdom. Elisha Ngetich, a Rhodes scholar currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, was ranked number one in this year’s Rare Rising Star Awards. The annual awards celebrate the UK’s…

Three Kenyans have been rescued from Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said one of the rescuees was working for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and arrived in the country on Wednesday. The other two were employed…

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…