DIASPORA NEWS

A Kenyan woman is currently admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a hospital in California after she collapsed shortly after landing in the US from Kenya. Peninah Mugure had traveled to Kenya for the burial of her father on December 27th last year and was returning to the US when she fainted and…

A lobby group representing Kenyans in the diaspora has asked the government to evacuate citizens who are presently stuck in South Korea following the outbreak of coronavirus. Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA), through its Chairman Shem Ochuodho, on Thursday said it received a distress letter from at…

The family of a Kenyan-born man who committed suicide while in the custody of the police at DFW International Airport in Dallas, Texas in November, 2018 has sued the airport over his death. 43-year-old Waweru Mwaura was traveling to Kenya on November 30th, 2018, when he was arrested over the…

Dallas County prosecutors have amended the charge sheet to include two more capital murder charges against suspected Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Chemirmir. This brings the total number of capital murder charges pressed against the 47-year-old resident of Dallas to 14 while civil lawsuits accuse…

Five Kenyan-born male marathoners failed to make it to the US Olympics team after they finished outside the cut-off. Elkanah Kibet, Augustus Maiyo, Leonard Korir, Samuel Kosgei, and Haron Lagat, all members of the US Army, failed to secure a spot in the team that will represent the US at the Summer…

Kenyans living and working abroad sent home Sh26 billion ($259.40 million) in January 2020, latest data by Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows. This represents a 3.6 percent growth from the Sh25 billion ($250.3 million) received in the previous month (December 2019). “The cumulative inflows in the 12…

A 27-year-old man born in the United Kingdom to Kenyan parents has been stripped of his British passport and now faces deportation. Unlike in the past when it was thought that people born in the UK were immune from passport cancellation, the British immigration system appears to have taken a…

Kenyans on social media reacted after a list of marathon runners fighting for a place in the US Olympic team was unveiled. The list of five athletes was shared on U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) Facebook page on Friday evening.  “Tune into NBC tomorrow, Saturday 29 February from…

Kenyan-born Dr. Anne M. Mungai has been appointed as the new associate provost for strategic initiatives and graduate studies at Adelphi University in New York. In her new position, she will be responsible for coordinating academic strategic initiatives, developing academic-community partnerships,…

James Mugweru, an 84-year-old Kenyan man who returned to the country on Friday after 47 years has spoken about his life in the United States. Mugweru has lived in the US for 60 years having moved there in 1959 through the educational airlift program organized by the late Tom Mboya and Senator John…