DIASPORA NEWS

Kenya Airways has announced a discount on flight tickets for Kenyans living in the United States. The airline says Kenyans who fly on its newly launched direct flights between New York and Nairobi will enjoy a 10 percent discount on tickets and luggage fees. Kenya Airways hopes this move will…

Kisii town has experienced a drastic transformation in recent years, thanks to millions of shillings of investments by Kenyans in the diaspora. In the last few years, Kenyans abroad have put up apartment and office blocks, schools and hotels in Kisii town, making it one of the fastest growing urban…

Police in Dublin, Ireland have arrested a Kenyan woman for reportedly stabbing to death a Malawian man on Thursday night. 50-year-old Grace Miano was apprehended on Friday after lifeless body of Limbani Mzoma was found with several stab wounds in an apartment at South Co, Dublin. An autopsy report…

Police in the United Kingdom are investigating the death of a 20-year-old Kenyan man. Tyrone Mulinde from London was found with serious injuries at Dampiet House in George Street, Bridgwater, Somerset on Saturday, October 20th after he was reportedly attacked. Mulinde received treatment from…

An American man has opened up on how studying in a Kenyan school changed his life after a troubled childhood in United States. Devon Brown, now 28, moved to Kenya alongside 11 other boys in 2002 after being declared uncontrollable by their former school in Baltimore, Maryland. Brown says that he…

Kenyans in the diaspora sent home $215.6 million (Sh21.6 billion) in the month of August, latest data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows. The August remittances pushes the annual diaspora inflows to a new high of $2.5 billion (Sh255 billion). CBK says monthly average inflows maintained an…

Kenyan Akasha brothers Baktash and Ibrahim have pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges at a court in the United States. The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) says the two pleaded guilty to six counts of drug trafficking in the Southern District of New York. “The DCI Director of Anti-…

A Kenyan man has been charged with the rape of an elderly dementia patient at a nursing home in Virginia. Thomas Kamau Nganga, 44, was charged with the rape of a 72-year-old woman at Lexington Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Henrico County, Virginia where he worked as a nurse. Henrico County…

Prof. Kariuki Njenga is set to become the second Kenyan to be inducted into on of the the world’s elite science bodies – the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. Kariuki, a professor of virology and global health at Washington State University, will be inducted into the prestigious…

A Kenyan man living in the United States has opened up on how he has managed to reap big profits from his onion farm in Kenya. Reverend Joseph Oloimooja, who resides in Los Angeles, California with his family, says he manages to run his farm located in Maili Tisa area, Kajiado County through phone…