DIASPORA NEWS

A diaspora lobby has condemned Kenyan MPs for forcing President Uhuru’s nominee for Kenya’s High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi to renounce her US citizenship before taking up the position. In a statement on Wednesday, the Kenya Community Abroad (KCA) accused MPs of hypocrisy, adding…

The March 9th, 2018 handshake between President Uhuru and ODM leader Raila Odinga was as a result of blackmail from Western powers, Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has claimed. Mudavadi made the claim when he addressed a meeting of Kenyans living in the diaspora during his…

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi has called for repealing of constitutional provisions that bar Kenyans holding dual citizenship from taking up State positions or seeking election to office. Mudavadi said Kenyans should not be denied the chance to serve their motherland by…

MPs could retract their decision approving the nomination of Kenyan-American, Mwende Mwinzi as Kenyan High Commissioner to Seoul, South Korea. In a report tabled on Wednesday, Parliament’s Committee on Implementation urged the House to rescind its decision approving Mwende’s nomination by President…

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi is currently on a tour to the United States. Mudavadi’s delegation comprising Sabatia MP Alfred Agoi, his Nambale counterpart Bunyasi Sakwa, and former Lamu Governor Issa Timamy and ANC Secretary-General Barrack Muluka among other leaders landed…

For the second month in a row, Kenya diaspora remittances have slumped in what is attributed to the expiry of the tax amnesty offered by the government for Kenyans to repatriate wealth stashed abroad. Kenyans living and working overseas sent home $214 million (Sh22.2 billion) in the month of August…

President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenyan High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi claims that she is being discriminated against by Kenyan MPs. Speaking during an interview with The Sunday Standard, Mwende, a Kenyan-American, said MPs were taking advantage of the fact that she was born in the…

Two Kenyan men in Minnesota have been charged with felony sexual assault of a woman with mental and physical impairments. Authorities say Francis Ndegwa Kamau, 39, of Spring Lake Park, MN and Kenneth Wagacha Kibe, 37, of Burnsville, MN sexually assaulted a woman diagnosed with mild intellectual…

Hodgen Mainda, a Kenya-born man who was appointed as the new Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance in Tennessee, has taken an oath of office. The 42-year-old was sworn-in this week by Governor Bill Lee and becomes the newest Cabinet member in the Tennessee State Government. Mainda, who first moved…

Mwende Mwinzi, President Kenyatta’s nominee for the position of Kenyan High Commissioner to South Korea has filed a case seeking to block MPs from forcing her to renounce her United States citizenship. In a case filed at the High Court on Tuesday, Mwinzi argues that forcing her to relinquish her US…