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Peter Juma, a 38-year-old Kenyan-born man who died of coronavirus on Saturday, March 28th in New York, has been laid to rest.
Juma was buried at a cemetery in New York’s Long Island on Thursday after his family’s efforts to airlift his remains to Kenya failed.
His sister Joyce Juma, who is based in…
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US-based Kenyan YouTuber Yvonne Mugure says she is presently in isolation after she tested positive for coronavirus last week.
Mugure, 30, announced she was diagnosed with the virus in a post on her Instagram page last Saturday.
“I received my results and they are positive for the corona. The…
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A Kenyan-American teenager has been accepted to several prestigious universities in the US after she finished high school.
Sharon Njeri Wambu, whose parents immigrated to the US from Kenya, received acceptance to 11 top universities including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Cal Poly Pomona, and…
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The family of a 35-year-old Kenyan-born man who died in the US after being diagnosed with coronavirus is struggling to have his remains airlifted to Kenya for burial.
Peter Juma, who worked as a bus driver for a company based at a New York airport, succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday, March 28th.
He…
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Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo says he has taken refuge in Dallas, Texas after fleeing New York city due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with Citizen TV on Saturday night, Madowo, said he felt unsafe in New York due to the city’s rate of infection compared to other US…
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PrideInn Hotel in Nairobi has reportedly detained a Kenyan student for failing to pay a bill amounting to Sh45,000.
The student identified as Mayombe Odubah is quarantined at the facility after she returned to the country from abroad, according to Nairobi News.
Odubah, 20, claims that she was…
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A Kenyan-born man living in the United States has reportedly died of coronavirus, according to reports.
Laban Kimungu, a resident of Massachusetts who had an underlying medical condition before he was diagnosed with Covid-19, succumbed to the illness on Wednesday, March 25th, his family said.
The…
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A Kenyan-born nurse living and working in the US has spoken about the challenges health workers are facing in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Dorothy Ogega, a geriatric nurse based in Indianapolis, Indiana, shared her experience during a video interview with Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange on…
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Kenyan media personality Larry Madowo says he has been forced to leave New York due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Madowo, a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, had returned to New York from Kenya a few days ago over fears that the US could impose travel restrictions on Kenya, hence affect…
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A group of US-based Kenyan educationists have opened a website and app that allow to Kenyan learners get access to learning materials online for free.
This was after all learning institutions in Kenya were closed last week as part of the government’s measures to combat the spread of Coronavirus (…
