DIASPORA NEWS

President Ruto has directed the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs to open an embassy in Budapest, Hungary. Ruto made the directive following his meeting with the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Dr. László Kövér, at State House, Nairobi, on Tuesday. The president said the process should…

202 Kenyan nursing students from Uasin Gishu County are staring at possible termination of their studies and deportation from Finland over fee arrears. This comes after the Uasin Gishu county government failed to remit tuition fees for their second semester as per the scholarship agreement, Citizen…

Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has urged Kenyans living, studying and working abroad to avoid getting in trouble with authorities in their host nations by respecting laws. Noting that the newly created Department for Diaspora Affairs will address the plight of the…

The family of missing Kenyan woman Irene Gakwa is appealing for Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon’s help as they continue to seek answers a year after she disappeared. Gakwa, 32, has not been heard from since February 24th, 2022, when she had a WhatsApp video call with her parents who live in Nairobi.…

Four Kenyan nurses working in the United States have had their licenses revoked after a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) determined they lacked sufficient qualifications for licensure. The Washington State Department of Health (WDH) invalidated the accreditations for Gabriel Ndung…

A Kenyan family is appealing for financial assistance from well-wishers to repatriate the bodies of their two kin who were found dead in their food truck in Finland. The family from Kisumu is racing against time to bring back the bodies of Catherine Anyango, 43, and her daughter Michelle, 25, to…

The family of a Kenyan student who drowned in Australia is appealing for financial assistance to repatriate her body to Kenya for burial. Sharon Jepkosgei Kigen, who hailed from Moiben in Uasin Gishu County, drowned Sydney's south-west on Tuesday afternoon, 9News reported. Sharon arrived in…

The Treasury has rejected a plan to sell the Kenya House, the official ambassador’s residence in New York. The Ministry of Public Works wanted the Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Ministry to put up the dilapidated building for sale on grounds that its refurbishment is not viable. The Kenya house was…

US-based Kenyan entrepreneur Margaret Nyamumbo has secured a $350,000 investment in her company. This comes after she successfully pitched her coffee business model to potential investors on Shark Tank, an American business reality television series that features a panel of investors called "…

US-based Kenyan entrepreneur Stephen Desmond Aoll has launched his own record label in Nairobi. Dubbed CMG Records, the state-of-the-art studio will manage the careers of upcoming artistes in the country and has since unveiled its first three signees. The fully-fledged studio has contracted the…