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The UK government has opened a probe into an incident in which a 24-year-old Kenyan man was assaulted by police in Colchester, Essex last month.
Officers from the Essex police department were captured on camera using excessive force while arresting Wycliff Cox on September 21st.
UK’s Independent…
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Police in the US are looking for a 15-year-old Kenyan boy who went missing about two weeks ago.
Ike Ngatia of Riverside, California was last seen on October 8th, 2020.
Anybody with information about the teenager’s whereabouts has been asked to call Riverside Police Department at 1-951-354-2007 or…
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A Kenyan man has shared his inspirational story of how he went on to achieve academic success in the US despite being written off by the Kenyan education system.
Having scored D+ in his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, Mwangi Mukami had no chance of joining the college…
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A Kenyan-American woman living in the US is part of a campaign team that has been working behind the scenes to ensure Joe Biden unseats Trump in the upcoming American presidential election.
Esther Ongeri, a political scientist, is the Director of Special Projects in the Biden 2020 campaign,…
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A Nairobi court has directed three Kenyans who swindled a relative living in the US of Sh16 million to refund the money.
The three; Amos Kosgey, David Magun, and Collins Saina, are said to have lured the victim, Charles Meto into investing in a holiday home project at the coast as an equity partner…
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Kenya’s Nelly Ndung’u on Saturday came close to being crowned the winner of this year’s Miss Africa Great Britain beauty pageant.
Nelly, who was among the 30 finalists in the competition, finished in the 1st runners-up position while Zambia’s Chinyanta Kabaso (Miss Aberdeen) won the crown.
Miss…
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Giant telecoms operator, Safaricom now controls 50 percent of the money sent home by Kenyans in the diaspora through its MPesa Global platform.
Kenyans living and working abroad wired home Sh284 billion through MPesa Global between April 1st, 2019, and March 31st, 2020, according to Safaricom…
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A UK-based Kenyan woman whose 24-year-old son was brutalized by police in Colchester, Essex in an incident captured on camera has spoken out.
In an interview with Daily Nation on Tuesday, the mother identified as Japhet confirmed her son, Wycliff Cox is suffering from a mental illness and was…
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The Kenyan government has written to UK authorities following an incident in which officers from the Essex Police Department were captured on camera assaulting a Kenyan man.
The incident came to light after a four-minute video showing a group of officers manhandling the man identified as Wycliff…
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A campaign has been launched to demand justice for a young Kenyan man who was allegedly assaulted by police in the UK.
This comes after a four-minute video showing officers from the Essex Police Department clobbering the man identified as Wycliff Cox in the presence of his mother and family was…
