DIASPORA NEWS
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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has cleared eight candidates to contest for Presidency in the August 8 general elections, among them a former United States based-author Japhet Kaluyu.
Kaluyu and his running mate Eliud Kariara were cleared were given the nod by the poll…
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A Kenyan woman has been sentenced by a UK court to two years in jail for stealing $65,800 (Sh6.8 million) from an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s diseases that she had been employed to look after.
Kisella Hillman, 27 years old, was found guilty of theft from the 85-year-old woman in a…
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Bishop Margaret Wanjiru of the famous 'The Glory is Here' over the weekend traveled to the United States to witness the wedding of her US based daughter in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wanjiru’s daughter Purity Kariuki tied the knot with her Fiancée Michael Litunda in a colorful private garden ceremony on…
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The launch of direct flights between Kenya and the United States could be delayed after the American government postponed a security audit that had been scheduled for June.
The US Transport Security Administration (TSA) had been set to review Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) for the Last…
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Diaspora-backed Choice Microfinance Bank has announced that it is launching a mobile app and Internet banking services for members. In a circular, the management of the community-based financial institution said that it intends to leverage on innovation and technology for it to remain competitive…
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US-based author, playwright and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong’o was on Monday awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Yale University.
In feting him at its 316th Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 22nd, the Ivy League institution said Prof Ngugi has used the power of words to change the world…
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Here is a picture-perfect situation: A leading Kenyan real estate firm knocks at your door in the United States of America, specifically to hand over to you the title deed of a piece of land that you recently bought with them in your mother country.
Well, that is exactly what will happen in the…
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A Kenyan father and his 11-year-old daughter drowned at Lake Whitney in Whitney, Texas on Saturday morning after going for a swim. Rescue crews spent the whole Saturday and Sunday morning looking for them, and finally found their bodies just before noon on Sunday.
The father has been identified as…
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Many years after they have settled down in foreign lands, countless Diaspora immigrants lose touch with their mother countries, and the many opportunities that are ripe and ready to be seized back at home. Worst still, there are not as many reliable channels to help bridge this existing information…
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The body of a Kenyan university student reported missing on March 20th, 2017 in Saint Louis, Missouri has been found in the Mississippi River.
Gift Kamau, 20 years old and a student at Saint Louis University in St Louis, was last seen on March 30th headed from home home to school. Camera footage…
