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Yvonne Apiyo Brändle Amolo, a Kenyan-born Swiss politician, artist, and activist, is leading international efforts to defend water as a human right and to resist its privatisation. In Kenya, many communities continue to face severe challenges in accessing clean and affordable water, particularly in…
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Kenyan families are urgently seeking answers as relatives who were promised jobs abroad have instead been conscripted into Russia's war in Ukraine, with many losing contact and fearing for their safety. A growing number of Kenyan families are in distress after relatives, initially recruited for…
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Kenyan activist Stephen Thairu Kamau faces possible deportation from Sweden, despite warnings from human rights groups that his return to Kenya could place him at serious risk of harm. Kamau, a Kenyan national from Nakuru County, left his home in 2022 and later reappeared in Sweden, where he is now…
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A Kenyan truck driver has been sentenced to six years in prison in New Jersey for a road rage incident that caused the death of another motorist. Joseph Nyandwaro, 41, admitted causing the death of 40-year-old Osman Aden by deliberately ramming Aden’s vehicle into a concrete barrier on the New…
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British police are searching for a 30-year-old Kenyan postgraduate student who went missing in Berkshire more than a week ago. Edna Mmbali Ombakho, who studies at York St John University’s London campus, was last seen on 1 February in Wraysbury. She had been living there with her boyfriend since…
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Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has announced that he will contest Kenya’s presidency in the 2027 general election, making the declaration during a meeting with Kenyans in the United States. Kalonzo made the announcement while addressing members of the Kenyan diaspora in Silver Spring, Maryland…
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A Kenyan postgraduate student has been reported missing in the United Kingdom, with police and a human rights organisation appealing for information to help locate her. Edna Mmbali Ombakho, 30, was last seen on Sunday, 1 February, in Wraysbury, Berkshire. Her family says they have not heard from…
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A symbolic burial was held on Friday in Mukurweini, Nyeri County, for 30-year-old Kenyan Charles Waithaka, who died in the Russia–Ukraine war after his family say he was deceived into military service. Family members, neighbours and activists gathered at a church compound, not around a coffin, but…
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Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs has confirmed that a Kenyan worker involved in a wage dispute with her employers in Ankara, Turkey, is safe and receiving assistance. The confirmation follows the circulation of a video recorded on 4 February showing the woman confronting her…
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Nineteen-year-old Brian Muinde Kimithi has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Minnesota, an offence that carries a possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison. According to a criminal complaint, Kimithi is accused of violently assaulting a woman in St Joseph. The woman…