DIASPORA NEWS
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Slain Kenyan nurse Mary Njoki Stanton and her two daughters will be laid to rest in the United States on December 22nd, the family has said.
Njoki, 49, and her daughters Adrianna Stanton, 17, and Brianna Stanton, 11, were found dead at their home in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside her husband 60-…
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A Kenyan man died in Qatar on Tuesday after allegedly falling inside one of the stadiums hosting the ongoing FIFA World Cup matches.
24-year-old John Njau Kibe from Dagoretti, Nairobi, reportedly died from the injuries he sustained from a fall on December 10th, according to the family.
Kibe's uncle…
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A Kenyan family is in agony following the mysterious death of their kin in Saudi Arabia about two weeks ago.
Judith Adhiambo, 37, traveled to the Gulf state in June this year after securing a job as a domestic worker through a local recruitment agency, according to her husband George Otieno.
Otieno…
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US-based Kenyan software engineer Nelly Cheboi has won the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year Award and will receive a cash prize of $100,000 (Sh12 million) to expand her work.
Cheboi, who quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago in 2019 to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, was…
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Kenyans living and working abroad sent home $345.5 million (Sh42.4 billion) in the month of November, representing a 3.9 percent increase compared to $332.6 million (Sh40.5 billion) in October.
The cumulative inflows for the 12 months to November totaled $4,021 million (Sh494 billion) compared to $…
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Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Dr. Alfred Mutua has revealed plans by the government to establish a diaspora department in all Kenyan missions abroad.
Speaking during the 9th Kenya Diaspora Homecoming Convention at Ole Sereni hotel, Nairobi, Mutua said the ministry will set up…
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Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has reiterated the government’s commitment to offer more support to Kenyans living and working abroad.
Speaking when he officially opened the Annual Kenya Diaspora Homecoming Convention at Ole Sereni Hotel Nairobi on Wednesday, Mutua said…
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The family of a Kenyan nurse who was killed together with her two daughters by her husband in the United States on Saturday says they are yet to come to terms with the loss of the three.
Mary Njoki Stanton, 49, and her daughters Adrianna Stanton, 17, and Brianna Stanton, 11, were found dead at…
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President Ruto is later this month expected to travel to the United States where he will attend the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit, which will be hosted by President Biden.
Ruto and other heads of state and leaders from across Africa will converge in Washington D.C. from December 13th to 15th for the…
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A Kenyan family is mourning the death of a mother and her two daughters who were shot dead by her husband in a suspected murder-suicide in the US state of Kentucky on Saturday.
Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) received a report of a shooting just after 8:30 a.m. Saturday…
