DIASPORA NEWS

Equity Bank has cut down withdrawal charges on its Equity PayPal service in a bid to grow the share of Kenyan diaspora inflows. Users will now be charged as low as one per cent on large withdrawals made from PayPal account in the new tariffs. Equity has in the past been charging 1.5 per cent of the…

A Kenyan professor, Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama has been issued with a 90-day ultimatum to leave the United States after his appeal for asylum was denied. Wanyama will be deported to Kenya should he fail to leave the US by July 14th.  The scholar, who has been working as an English professor at…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna has once again blamed Opposition leader Raila Odinga for his last week forceful removal from the country by Kenyan Immigration authorities. Miguna was last week thrown out of Kenya after being held at the Jomo Kenyatta…

Deported opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna's supporters will on Thursday hold a peaceful protest in the United Kingdom in solidarity with him. In a post on his social media pages, Miguna said the supporters will hold the demos outside the British Parliament in Westminster, London at 2 pm. The self-…

Deported lawyer Miguna Miguna has dared Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, who he referred to as convicted criminal, to press charges against him over claims that he fraudulently acquired his now confiscated passport. Speaking when he appeared before Parliamentary Committee on National…

A family in Dallas, Texas believes their elderly aunt was murdered by Billy Chemirmir, a 45-year-old Kenyan suspected of being a serial killer and already charged in the murder of another woman in Texas. The family of Catherine Probst, who was 88 when she died in April, 2016, say they now have to…

Julie Weche, a Kenyan-American founder of Elimu Tutoring & Training Center in Baltimore, Maryland, recently started down for an interview with Voice of America (VoA). In this April 2nd segment of Voice of America’s Africa 54 show, Julie, an educator by profession, discusses with VoA’s Esther…

Immigration Principal Secretary Gordon Kihalangwa has refuted claims that exiled lawyer Miguna Miguna was detained in a toilet at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi. Speaking when he appeared before Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Administration on Tuesday,…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna was not deported to Dubai on Wednesday last week, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has said. Speaking when he appeared before Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Administration on Tuesday, the CS said that…

It has now emerged that under-siege lawyer Miguna Miguna's plan that he revealed while on his global tour to popularize National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the United States could the reason why the Kenyan government denied him entry into the country. While addressing his supporters at a hotel in…