DIASPORA NEWS

Kenyans living and working abroad have continued to send more cash home, cementing their position as the country's highest source of foreign income ahead of coffee and tea. Latest data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows that remittances from Kenyans in foreign countries increased by 51.8…

Kenya Airways has moved to woo Kenyans living in North America as it prepares to launch direct flights to the United States later this year. The airline's senior sales manager for key markets, Jennifer Njuguna is currently leading a team to the US for an outreach mission targeting Kenyans living in…

Police in Indian capital, New Delhi have arrested a Kenyan woman with 2.5 kilos of heroine. Marium Mweke was reportedly apprehended as she was heading to supply the narcotics to a peddler in Punjab. Mweke was arrested together with two of her associates Ekene Kenneth Onyetobe and Martin Obum Fevor…

Kenyans in the diaspora facilitated a helicopter ride for Garissa Governor Ali Karane around the state of Minnesota during his benchmarking tour to the United States. The Governor said the chopper ride helped him witness firsthand the architectural masterpieces and technology used in developing the…

Kenyan real estate company, Optiven Group has embarked on another tour to the United States on an initiative dubbed "Empowering Kenyans in America." During the tour, the award-winning company will hold transformative Investment and Wealth Creation empowerment forums across the US. Optiven Chief…

The government of Kenya has called for action against four Lebanese citizens and a military officer caught on camera assaulting two Kenyan women in a suspected racist attack. In a video that has since gone viral online, the five were seen brutally attacking the two women in a location believed to…

Dr George Njoroge, a US-based Kenyan researcher, made history as the first African scientist to be granted over 100 patents by the American Patent and Trade Office. He is now set to be honored at FACE List Awards on July 14th at Capitale in New York.  Njoroge, a senior research fellow at Eli…

North-Carolina-based lawyer Jeff Matemu, a native of Kenya, has won a landmark immigration case against President Donald Trump's administration. In a ruling on Wednesday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said that the US government will no longer use petty crimes without…

Kenyans living and working abroad have been urged to embrace Cooperative Saccos as safer platforms of sending money back home. Addressing members of the Kenya USA Diaspora Sacco during the Sacco’s Annual General Meeting held in Seattle, Washington over the weekend, Commissioner for Co-operatives…

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says Kenyans in the diaspora must declare the investments they have made in the host countries when they file their tax returns. Speaking on Citizen TV's Citizen Extra program on Monday, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Chief Manager for Domestic Taxes Department…