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An autopsy carried out on the body of a Kenyan student who passed on aboard a Delta Airways flight in the United States days to Christmas have revealed that he succumbed to a heart attack.
Griffin Gutwa(18), a medical student at the University of San Diego was headed home from San Diego in…
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A Kenyan family living in the United States whose son died aboard a Delta Airways plane headed to Minneapolis from San Diego days before Christmas has questioned the circumstances leading to his demise.
18-year-old Griffin Gutwa had just completed his exams at the San Diego University and was…
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Diaspora remittances have reduced by 5.56 percent in the month of November 2017 in comparison to October.
This is the first time the inflows from diaspora have decreased since August 2017, even as the cumulative remittances in the first 11 months of the year reached a new record high.
Official data…
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A Kenyan teenager in the United States reportedly died inside a Minneapolis-bound Delta Airlines flight that had left San Diego, California.
18-year-old Griffin Gutwa, a medicine student at the University of San Diego, California allegedly died after falling asleep in the plane while on his way…
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A Kenyan woman in the United States reportedly died after she was involved in what her family said was a hit-and-run crash in Phoenix, Arizona.
31-year-old Sheila Jeptanui Chuchuney's family said she succumbed to injuries moments after being taken to a local hospital.
Sheila lived in Mombasa, Kenya…
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A Kenyan student in India was on Sunday arrested by authorities after being found in possession of narcotic substances.
21-year-old Elijah Malcolm Onyango was arrested with narcotic substances worth about Rs 2.4 lakh at Palolem in Canacona during a swoop by Canacona anti-narcotics police.
Speaking…
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A Kenyan man is in custody in Mesa, Arizona after police say he was drunk at work as he cared for the elderly at a senior care facility.
Court documents say George Mathenge, 30, was the only care provider working the night shift on Christmas. Patients and some family members noticed that Mathenge…
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A family in Kenya is searching for their long-lost relative who moved to the United States five decades ago.
Anthony Gachinga moved to the US in the 1960s as a student, but his family in Kenya has not heard from him since the 1990s.
If you know of his whereabouts, please contact George Cardovillis…
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A Kenyan has been extradited to the country from Israel after being found to have secured his Visa through underhand methods. Francis Kimani alias 'Yehudah Kimani' was deported to Kenya after immigration officers from the Israeli Interior Ministry denied him entry into an Israeli airport on Monday…
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A section Opposition supporters living in the United Kingdom (UK) have planned a dinner in London on December 23rd to raise funds to be channelled to victims of post-election violence in Kenya.
The event will take place at Hyatt Place, a 4 star West London Business Hotel in Hayes starting at 2.00pm…
