DIASPORA NEWS

Two men have been charged with murder after the death of a Kenyan man in Des Moines, Iowa. Terrence Cheeks Jr, 21, and Leshaun Murray,2 0, who had already been convicted of first degree robbery for assaulting the man, Mike Wasike, 41,  will now face an additional murder charge after Wasike…

Kenya diaspora remittances hit a record $641.5 million (Sh64.3 billion) between January and March, 2018. This is party attributed to the impact of growing investment products targeting Kenyans abroad. The inflows in the first three months of the year represent an increase of 48.29 per cent from the…

Kenya Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani says that only 65 privately-owned hiring firms have received government's nod to recruit Kenyans for jobs abroad. Speaking during a meeting with recruitment agencies from the Coast in Mombasa, Yatani said all companies must comply with the new regulations…

Credit and savings societies for Kenyans in the diaspora are slowly but surely taking shape even as more Kenyans overseas continue to increase their interests in investing back home. In the last two decades, Kenyans living abroad have invested heavily at home, especially in real estate and some of…

Opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna is set to return to Kenya in about one and a half weeks time. The self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general on Saturday announced he will fly to the country on May 16th, arguing that he is a Kenyan citizen by birth. In a post on his social media pages…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna has demanded an apology from President Kenyatta for what he termed as violating his citizenship. Reacting to President Uhuru's decision to seek forgiveness from Kenyans for any hurtful remarks he made during last year's hotly…

A 71-year-old homeless Kenyan man has passed away in the United States after spending about 50 years in North America.  Officials at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia confirmed that Timothy Majanja was admitted at the facility after being driven there in an ambulance and in critical…

Self-declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) general Miguna Miguna has dismissed opposition leader Raila Odinga's earlier decision to lift a boycott on products from different companies announced by National Super Alliance (Nasa) after last year's presidential elections. In his speech during…

Activist Boniface Mwangi has hit out at Dennis Itumbi, the State House Director of Digital and Diaspora Communications for doing little for Kenyans in the diaspora. In his weekly column in The Nairobian newspaper, Mwangi accused Itumbi of ignoring the plights of Kenyans abroad, which are supposed…

Hundreds of Kenyans in Atlanta, Goergia are this weekend attending the 2018 Majuu Festival being held at the Kenyan American Community Church (KACC) off Canton Road in Marietta this weekend. The Majuu Festival is an exhibition of Kenyan-African cultures that is now famous among Kenyans residing in…