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A Kenyan woman who has been detained by Saudi Arabian authorities for the past one year is appealing for help to return home.
Elizabeth Sineno from Watamu in Mombasa County released recordings calling out for help.
Sineno said she traveled to the Middle East country in 2014 in search of employment…
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Kenyans in the diaspora sent home Sh117.56 billion ($1.15 billion) in the first five months of 2019, latest figures from Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) show.
This represents a measly 3.78 percent growth compared to the same period last year.
Diaspora remittances in the month of May hit Sh24.75…
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A Kenyan man who won $1 million (about KSh100 million) in a raffle competition in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates cannot be traced.
Paul Wachira was announced as the winner of the raffle competition on Tuesday after his ticket number 2162 was drawn in the latest series of the Dubai lottery.
On…
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A Kenyan man was one of two truck drivers killed in a multiple-vehicle crash along Interstate 94 in Racine County, Wisconsin on Wednesday last week.
William Siruri, of Clayton, North Carolina, lost his life in an accident in which a truck driver hit a construction barrier then hit a median wall…
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Former IEBC commissioner Dr. Roselyn Akombe has denied reports circulating on social media claiming that she has passed away.
A blog, Kenyan Report, published an article on Monday alleging that Dr. Akombe was found dead in her apartment in the United States. The website claimed that Akombe was…
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Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Dr. Patrick Njoroge has said Kenyans in the diaspora who are holding the old Sh1,000 notes must travel back and exchange them with the new banknotes before the October 1st deadline.
Njoroge said the regulator will not allow any form of conversion of the old…
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A 60-year-old Kenyan man is set to be sentenced on October 4th after admitting to defrauding Fairfax County, Virginia of millions of shillings.
Appearing before Alexandria Federal Court on Monday, Robert Muli from Ohio told the judge that he conspired with a group of other people from Kenya to…
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Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner is set to release the postmortem results of a Kenyan student who was found dead at Stanford University last week.
The autopsy report will reportedly be handed over to the deceased family before Sunday.
The lifeless body of 24-year-old Norah…
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Police in New Delhi, India have arrested a Kenyan woman over the death of her female compatriot.
The deceased, only identified as Annsam, 45, allegedly succumbed to a deep knife wound on her chest at her house in Mehrauli, South Delhi on Monday night.
Police reports showed Annsam had lived in India…
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The Kenya Embassy in Washington, DC has taken steps to better manage the crowds that have been visiting the Embassy seeking Huduma Namba and ePassports.
The Embassy now requires Kenyans, after they have filled the online forms for either Huduma Namba or ePassport, to schedule an appointment online…
