DIASPORA NEWS
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US second-biggest stock exchange market by market capitalization, Nasdaq has honored Kenyan Dr. Enoch Kariuki following his appointment to American biopharmaceutical giant, Velosbio Inc.
Nasdaq wrote a congratulatory message to Dr. Kariuki in New York’s Times Square Billboard after he was named…
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Kenyans in the diaspora have called on President Kenyatta to act on Chief Justice David Maraga’s advice to dissolve Parliament.
On Monday, Maraga asked Uhuru to disband the Senate and the National Assembly for failing to enact legislation required to implement the two-thirds gender rule for nine…
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Kenyan student, Nelly Ndungu has made it to the finals in the Miss Africa Great Britain beauty pageant.
Nelly, who hails from Njoro, Nakuru County is among the 30 finalists in the competition that is open to African women living in the UK.
If she is crowned the winner, Nelly will become a goodwill…
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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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