DIASPORA NEWS

African Diaspora Asset Managers (ADAM) Limited, which is targeting Kenyans and other African clients abroad, has been granted a fund manager’s license. The license issued by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) paves the way for the company to offer financial products and services in asset…

Imagine working abroad for nearly a decade only to return home without anything. This is the story of Teresia Wambui, a Kenyan mother of two who recently returned to the country from Lebanon after nine years. Wambui, who hails from Thika, Kiambu County moved to the Gulf nation in 2011 with the hope…

Kenyans in the US are among SendWave customers who have fallen victim to online fraudsters posing as the cash transfer company’s employees. The impersonators are sending out emails to unsuspecting SendWave customers asking them to update their account details, according to reports. Kenya Satellite…

Police in the US are holding a 35-year-old Ghanaian pastor for fatally shooting his wife in Orlando, Florida. Sylvester Ofori is said to have shot dead his 27-year-old wife, Barbra Tommey outside her workplace at the Navy Federal Credit Union, Orlando branch on Tuesday, September 8th, according to…

An online petition seeking to have President Kenyatta order the processing of e-passport biometrics at the Kenya’s consulate in Los Angeles, California has been launched.  The petition started by Paddy Mwembu at Change.org has gained the support of Kenyans living in the US and had been signed…

Kenyans living and working abroad sent home $276.9 million (Sh30.03 billion) in July, according to the latest data by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).  This represents a four percent drop from $288.5 million (Sh31.28 billion) received in the previous month. July’s remittances from Kenyans in…

A Kenyan mother whose son recently died in the US has appealed for help from the government and well-wishers to airlift his remains to Kenya for burial. Paulina Chebet’s first-born son, Geoffrey Chepkwony was on August 29th found dead in a bayou at 49 Jacinto Street in Houston, Texas by members of…

In 2018, Kenyans were ranked as the third most industrious immigrants in the US behind Ghanaians and Bulgarians. Kenyans scored 73.4 percent to emerge third in the list of hardworking and most skilled immigrant groups in the US, according to the report compiled by Bloomberg. Henrietta Moraa Isaboke…

Renowned US-based Kenyan preacher and motivational speaker Dr. Jacob Kinyanjui Ng’ang’a has been admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU). Ng’ang’a, who lives in Marietta, Georgia, was admitted to the hospital this week for heart failure before undergoing an open heart on Thursday. “I’m still in…

A 35-year-old African-American woman who relocated to Ghana from the US seven years ago says this is one of the best decisions she has ever made in her life.  Tiffany Soulbird, who moved to Ghana in 2013 after a DNA test confirmed her African roots, says she does not regret her decision to…