DIASPORA NEWS

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has announced plans of setting up an online voting system for Kenyans abroad. In a statement via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday, the electoral commission indicated that its chairman Wafula Chebukati is planning to engage…

Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Commissioner Dr. Roselyn Akombe has re-emerged after months of silence. Akombe, who controversially resigned from the IEBC and secretly fled the country to the United States days before the October 26, 2017 fresh presidential elections,…

A National Super Alliance (Nasa) group of supporters in the diaspora has endorsed the unity pact reached between President Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga. Speaking to The Standard, Nasa UK chapter Secretary-General Ali Abdi said the group has unanimously agreed to support the unity…

The Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Washington, DC has opened a portal where Kenyans in the Diaspora can submit their professional, academic, and business skills. The Embassy says that the “exercise is not only aimed at collecting information for planning purpose but also take stock of key…

A Kenyan student, Bettylenah Njaramba has won the University of North Carolina (UNC) Association of Student Governments (ASG) presidency. The Junior elementary education major becomes the first African-American to be elected to the prestigious position. ASG is a student body that represents the…

Besieged Opposition politician Miguna Miguna says he is admitted at a Hospital in Toronto, Canada. In a tweet, the self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general said that toxicological tests were being conducted on him by doctors at the Sunnybtook Health Science Center in Toronto. The…

Self-proclaimed National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna claims that the citizenship saga is a cover-up by the government to prosecute him over his role in the mock swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as people's president on January 30th. Speaking during an interview with…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna could soon return to the country following a ruling on Saturday by the High Court. While hearing a case filed by Miguna on Saturday, Justice Chacha Mwita ruled that the fiery opposition lawyer must be physically present in court…

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is intervening in the immigration case of Dr Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama, a Kenyan professor at Augsburg who has been given 90 days by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave the United States. Gov. Dayton on Wednesday sent a letter to acting Director of…

Two Kenyan-Americans are among five suspects charged in connection with the shooting of a 25-year-old father of three in Cobb County, Georgia two weeks ago. 18-year-old Maria Mungai of Acworth, GA and Charlton Kariuki of Smyrna, GA have been charged in the March 23rd shooting of Daniel Perez, 25,…