DIASPORA NEWS

A group of Kenyan DJs based in the diaspora have created an online platform to entertain their fans amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Facebook Group dubbed ‘254 Diaspora Djs Live on the mix’ was formed last month to help entertainers reach fans through live shows and has gained over 40,000 members…

Authorities in the UK have opened a probe against a church belonging to a Kenyan preacher for allegedly selling coronavirus “plague protection kits.”  Bishop Climate Ministries, which is part of the Kingdom Church located on Camberwell Station Road in south London, is selling the kits…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…