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A video of a Kenyan Harvard University graduate's impressive commencement speech has gone viral on social media.
Eunice Alison Nyang’or alias Mwabe was among the three keynote speakers at the ivy league's university 2019 graduation day.
Mwabe spoke eloquently and humorously about various topics…
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A Kenyan-born man who has been fighting deportation from the United States for the last 10 years has shared his story.
Sylvester Owino, who owns a small business in San Diego, California, says his asylum case has lasted a decade.
Owino tells Voice of America (VoA) that he arrived in the US from…
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The deadline for Kenyans in the Diaspora to acquire Huduma Namba is two days away, and for many Kenyans living in the United States completing the application process at the Kenya Embassy in Washington, DC has been frustrating.
Kenyans living in various states across the US have rushed to heed to…
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Police in California are still investigating the circumstances under which a Stanford University student originally from Kenya died in her dormitory room.
24-year-old Norah Chelagat Borus was found dead at her on-campus room on Friday.
Family spokesperson Joseph Maswan said police are still…
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A Kenyan man has revealed how he saved a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was unknowingly traveling to Iraq for work.
Speaking to Nairobi News through WhatsApp, the man said he met Shantel Nyaboke in a Turkish Airlines flight.
The man said the woman believed she was traveling to Qatar for greener…
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An undergraduate co-term student at Stanford University was found dead at an on-campus residence on Friday, just days before commencement.
The university's Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole broke the news about the student's death in an email to the campus community.
"We have…
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Three Kenyans including two women and one man were charged by a US federal grand jury for their roles in a marriage fraud conspiracy.
Nellie Mbote, a 35-year-old Kenyan from Lee’s Summit, Missouri was charged in a four-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on May 21st,…
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The body of a Kenyan woman who was found dead in Osbourne Park, Western Australia on May 29th is set to be flown to Kenya for burial
On Saturday, the Kenyan community in Australia raised AUD35,000 (about Sh2.5 million) to help the remains of Nancy Jelagat Cheruiyot airlifted to Kenya.
Ms.…
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Outgoing Kenyan Ambassador to the United States Robinson Githae has urged Kenyans in the diaspora to join Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (Saccos).
Speaking during the 6th Annual General Meeting of the Kenya and USA Diaspora Sacco members in Boston, Githae said Kenyans living and working…
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US citizen Bruce Pritchett has appealed to well-wishers to sign his petition to President Donald Trump after his efforts to legalize his Kenyan wife’s status was rejected by Immigration authorities.
Bruce's wife, Salome Pritchett, is facing deportation after the US Citizen and Immigration…
