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A Kenyan family is mourning the death of their kin who died from alleged carbon monoxide poisoning in Qatar.
Binti Mohammed Mwanyota, a 32-year-old mother of four from Kwale County, worked as a housemaid in the Middle East nation since March last year, according to her family.
On the morning of…
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A Kenyan-born nurse will be sentenced on Thursday after she pleaded guilty in a $100 million home health care fraud and kickback scheme.
Winnie Waruru of Lowell, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston on September 8th last year.
Waruru, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of…
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The government has made changes to the eCitizen portal to allow Kenyans living and working abroad to open an account using their email addresses.
The changes were announced by Diaspora Affairs Principal Secretary Roseline Njogu through a notice posted on Twitter.
Njogu pointed out that eCitizen…
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An American man accused of stealing from a bank account of his missing Kenyan girlfriend is headed for a potential 10-day trial.
Nathan Hightman appeared in the Campbell County Courthouse on Wednesday for his pretrial conference on five felony charges, among them two counts of theft, two counts of…
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A Kenyan national was on Thursday charged with hacking the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) systems and syphoning $20 million from its bank account.
Primrose Nyeri Mwangi, who is the director of Primkett Travels, was charged with fraud at the Harare Magistrates Court, Zimbabwean…
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A Kenyan family is seeking help to pay medical bills for their daughter, who was reportedly attacked and raped in Albania last August.
22-year-old Joy Aoko was found unconscious under the building where she lived in Tirana, the capital of Albania, and has spent the last three months in a…
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Former IEBC commissioner Dr. Roselyn Akombe has returned to the US after securing a new job at the United Nations (UN).
Akombe, 47, has been appointed as the Chief of Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships at the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
She will be…
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A Kenyan man accused of marrying a woman in Jersey while still married to another in Kenya has been acquitted of bigamy charges.
The Royal Court in Jersey ruled that the case against Douglas Ndenga Akhonya should be dropped, saying the prosecution failed to provide an expert in Kenyan law to…
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About half of Kenyans living and working abroad have taken up an extra job since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to sustain remittances back home, according to a new survey.
The survey conducted last October by global payments company WorldRemit determined that a sizable number of Kenyans in the…
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President Ruto has revealed plans by his administration to increase the number of Kenyans working abroad.
Speaking during a media roundtable with journalists at State House, the president termed the diaspora as a huge resource that his government is keen to tap into, saying the aim is to have…
