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A Kenyan man in Malaysia has passed away after falling down a waterfall in Langkawi Island.
27-year-old Kamudi Valentine Muthomi, who hails from Nairobi slipped and fell off the Telaga Tujuh waterfall while on a tour to the site. Kamudi fell down the waterfall, which is about a nine metre drop and…
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US-based Kenyan scholar Professor Makau Mutua has reacted to Monday's Supreme Court decision that upheld President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election in the October 26th repeat presidential election.
Mutua, a fierce critic of President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee administration has in the past refused…
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A Kenyan-owned home health-care company in Massachusetts has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution and penalties for failing to pay its employees overtime.
Maestro-Connections Home Health Systems, LCC, based in Lawrence, MA and owned by George Kiongera, employes more than 600…
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Naomi Mburu, a chemical engineering student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) has received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
Naomi, 21, whose parents are Kenyan immigrants, becomes the first student in UMBC history to receive the prestigious honor. She is also one of only 32…
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The Kenya diaspora community has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta and his political nemesis Raila Odinga of National Super Alliance (NASA) to denounce violence.
This comes after a series of incidents of violence were witnessed in different parts of Nairobi county on Friday and Saturday.
Speaking…
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Danish police say that a Kenyan woman found dead together with her 10-month-old son at an apartment in Gentofte last week could have killed her baby before taking her own life.
Authorities in the town of North Zealand say that preliminary examinations on Ms Fridah “Rashida” Shironya’s body…
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Authorities in Australia have confiscated travel documents belonging to a Kenyan Catholic priest after he was charged for allegedly stealing more than $1000 from a charity kitty.
Father Alexander Mutua Munyao is said to have stolen the cash from the Lismore Diocese in northern New South Wales.…
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Kenya has introduced tougher rules to guarantee safety for Kenyans traveling to Middle East to seek domestic jobs even as it halts the ban imposed four years ago.
The Ministry of Labour said that recruitment agencies must now make mandatory quarterly returns to the government on the individuals…
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A US-based Kenyan scholar has poked holes at National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga's last Thursday speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
In an opinion piece on the Standard Newspaper, David Monda, a professor of Political Science at City…
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A Kenyan woman and have 10-month old son were found dead on Saturday morning in their apartment in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The woman has been identified as Rashida Fridah, a native of Kakamega, Kenya.
Police say the child’s father found the two dead in their Dyssegård apartment and called…
