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A 15-year-old Kenyan-born girl who went missing in Potsdam, Germany last week was on Tuesday found dead.
The body of the teen identified only as Britney was found floating on water by a man who had gone fishing along River Havel on Tuesday afternoon.
The body was discovered near the spot where her…
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Police in Potsdam, Germany are looking for a teenage Kenyan girl who went missing from their home a week ago.
The 15-year-old girl identified only as Britney disappeared on October 15th following a quarrel with her parents, according to Mkenya Mjerumani, a diaspora news website.
She left their home…
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US-based Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o once again missed out on the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ahead of the announcement for the 2018 and 2019 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, Ngugi was among writers considered favorites for the title, according to betting site Unibet
Other…
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Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma was on Monday given two days to file her response in a petition lodged by President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea, Mwende Mwinzi.
The High Court made the order on Monday after a lawyer from Attorney General’s office…
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Members of Parliament last week rejected a report on the welfare of Kenyan immigrants working in Saudi Arabia.
This came after they accused the National Assembly Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, which went on a fact-finding mission in the Middle East nation, of doing shoddy work.
In a heated…
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Renowned Kenyan author Professor John Mbiti has passed away aged.
Prof. Mbiti died on Sunday while undergoing medication at a hospital in Switzerland, according to The Standard.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga and US-based Kenyan scholar Prof. Makau Mutua are among those who…
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Police in India arrested a 36-year-old Kenyan woman accused of running a drug trafficking ring in the Asian country.
Mariam Mweke was arrested in New Delhi last week after a seven-month chase, according to The Times of India.
Authorities placed a Rs50,000 bounty on her head after she jumped bail…
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A video of a Nairobi-based woman bashing Kenyans in the United States has emerged on social media.
In the undated video posted on Facebook, the lady who only identifies herself as Nana tells Kenyans living in the US go give their compatriots back home ‘a break.’
“Acheni kutusumbua tafadhali,…
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Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga has come to the defense of President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi.
Odinga wants MPs to rescind their decision to force Ms. Mwinzi to renounce her United States citizenship before taking up the…
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National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale says President Kenyatta was misled into appointing Kenyan-American Mwende Mwinzi as Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea.
Duale insisted that Parliament will not allow Ms. Mwende to take up the position before renouncing her United States Citizenship…
