DIASPORA NEWS
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A Kenyan man died after a truck and a bus collided in Durham, North Carolina on Sunday.
The man identified as 28-year-old Jacob Kipserem of Buies Creek was driving the box truck when it collided with a GoTriangle bus, according to reports.
Kipserem was pulled out of the wreckage and…
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The family of a 20-year-old Kenyan university student who died abroad this week is appealing to the government and well-wishers to help them airlift his body to Kenya for burial.
Abraham Mutinda Mwendwa passed away on Monday in a hospital in Russia where he had been undergoing treatment for two…
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Two Kenyan men died in a car crash that also killed a third man in Delaware early Saturday morning. 25-year-old James Ogachi of Cary, North Carolina and 26-year-old Kelvin Mwangi of New Castle, Delaware were killed in a car crash along Old Baltimore Pike in Newark, Delaware.
Delaware State Police…
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A US-based Kenyan woman who quit her engineering job to become a full-time deejay says she does not regret the move.
Anne Mongare, alias DJ Mochi Baybee, talked about her love for the decks during a recent interview with People Daily.
Anne, who resides in Minnesota, was born in Nairobi but…
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Kenyans living and working in the diaspora are set to enjoy better government services if a new bill is approved.
The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Bill, 2020, seeks to ensure that Kenyans abroad get similar services as those offered to their compatriots back home.
The bill is…
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Kenyan-born policy analyst Boni Njenga is running for the position of a commissioner in one of the county boards in the US.
He is eyeing a seat in the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, District 5, in Minneapolis, Minnesota and will be challenging first-term incumbent Debbie Goettel in the…
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On August 1st, Kenya reopened its airspace following a four-month shutdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. This paved the way for the resumption of international flights to and from the country to various global destinations.
Kenya has since exempted travelers from 147 countries from…
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The employer of a Kenyan woman who died under mysterious circumstances in Saudi Arabia in June this year has paid the deceased’s family SAR3,600 (Sh104,000).
The amount was outstanding salary arrears owed to Alice Owuor Tindo by the Saudi Arabian widow before her death on June 14th, according to…
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US-based BBC journalist Larry Madowo has earned praise Kenyans on social media after he interviewed American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates.
Madowo spoke to the Microsoft Founder about the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in an exclusive interview aired on BBC TV and radio on…
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A UK-based Kenyan doctor protested after he was blocked from donating blood owing to his relationship with his wife, also a Kenyan.
Francis Githae Muriithi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the East Midlands, was told he could not donate blood due to the tough rules enacted by the UK’s National…
