DIASPORA NEWS

The Kenyan Embassy in Washington, DC has announced the resumption of in-person consular services effective Monday, October 19th. “The Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Washington DC would like to inform the general public of the resumption of limited in-person consular services at the Embassy…

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has blocked attempts by MPs to stonewall the appointment of Kenyan-American Mwende Mwinzi as Kenya's Ambassador to South Korea. Muturi in a communication on Thursday said Mwende's fate now lies with President Kenyatta and not Parliament since the court last…

A new mobile application has been launched to help Kenyans in the diaspora monitor the quality of healthcare their families back home receive. Dubbed Diaspocare, the app also enables Kenyans living and working abroad to pay their relatives’ medical bills, Business Daily reports.  Diaspocare…

A family living in Switzerland is seeking answers following the mysterious death of their kin in Kenya. The family from the Swiss city of Winterthur received the shocking news of Mr. Abu Bakari’s death early last month but the cause of his death remains a mystery.  Bakari died in Watamu,…

Alexander Bedran, a 25-year-old Kenyan-born man living in Lebanon has finally traced his Kenyan relatives after a long search. Bedran was born in 1995 in Mombasa to a Kenyan mother and a Lebanese father before the family secretly moved to Lebanon when he was two years old. He recently talked to…

A 25-year-old Kenyan-born man living in Lebanon is appealing for help to trace his relatives in Kenya. Alexander Bedran was born in Mombasa to a Kenyan mother and a Lebanese father before moving to Lebanon when he was two years old. Through his dad, Ahmad Yousef Badran, and his late mum, Jacinta…

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of many immigrants in the US and Kenyans have not been spared either. One such Kenyan is Kariuki, who moved to the US in 2015 as an undergraduate student at Temple University in Philadelphia.   Speaking to Daily Nation’s North America correspondent…

A US-based Kenyan woman whose daughter recently admitted to deliberately infecting men with HIV has given her side of the story. 36-year-old Jackline Njoki Mwangi, alias Kiki wa Ng’endo made the confession during an interview with Tuko News this month, partly blaming her mother who she claimed…

US-based Kenyan-born nurse Anne Kiboi has been honored by the University of Southern Indiana (USI) for her role in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Kiboi, who was born in Nairobi and moved to the US at the age of five, was named as the recipient of this year’s USI Distinguished Nursing…

A 27-year-old Kenyan man is among 18 suspects arrested following a prostitution sting in Coweta County, Georgia last week.   The two-day operation was carried out at a local hotel by Coweta County Sheriff’s Office in collaboration with the Homeland Security Human Trafficking and Child…