Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Sunday 15 November 2026

Evening Edition for Sunday, 15 November 2026. Running time 8:32.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. Diaspora mourns Joyce Magu in Alabama and Meshack Kilonzo in Wales
2. Kenyan man dies in Baltimore after collapsing following church service

Immigration News

1. Opaque USCIS shifts upend family petitions, green cards and naturalization

Kenya News

1. Uhuru's Wamunyoro visit tests Gachagua's Mount Kenya leadership
2. Aid agencies struggle to support over 50,000 Ethiopian refugees in Kenya
3. Mysterious hippo deaths in Lake Naivasha raise poisoning fears
4. Babu Owino vows to resign rather than face impeachment as Nairobi governor
5. Gachagua tells Ruto to stop wooing Sifuna, Karua and Matiang'i

World News

1. Record migrant arrivals in Canary Islands expose limits of EU migration laws

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

Good evening. It's 6 o'clock this evening on Sunday, the fifteenth of November, and here is your evening edition.

Coming up.

Iran drone attack hits US military base in Bahrain.

Uhuru's Wamunyoro visit puts Gachagua's Mount Kenya leadership to the test.

Record migrant arrivals in Canary Islands expose limits of new EU migration laws.

Those stories, and more, in the next few minutes.

Turning to diaspora news, two Kenyan families abroad are mourning sudden losses. In Alabama, the community is grieving Joyce Nyokabi Magu, who died on Friday, the sixth of November, in Hoover. Joyce was the wife of Joe Magu and mother of Blake and Bailey. She is survived by her sisters Mugure and Alice of Kennesaw, Georgia. Relatives and friends have organized daily prayer gatherings in Hoover, Atlanta and Nairobi, and the family has appealed for financial contributions toward the funeral. Meanwhile, Kenyans in the United Kingdom are gathering online today to remember Meshack Mbatha Kilonzo, who was found unresponsive in his room in South Wales earlier this month, shocking relatives and the wider diaspora.

Staying with the diaspora, a Kenyan man living in Maryland has died after an eight-day battle. Richard Kisang, from Kowow Village in Elgeyo Marakwet County, suffered a brain hemorrhage and died despite emergency surgery in Baltimore. His crisis began at a church service in Maryland, where he felt unusually tired and dizzy and asked a friend to drive him home. That evening his condition worsened and he collapsed at home. He was rushed to Frederick Health Hospital, where doctors diagnosed the hemorrhage, then airlifted to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Surgeons operated, but he succumbed after eight days of intensive care. His family is expected to announce funeral arrangements in the coming days.

Turning to immigration news, unexplained procedural changes at US Citizenship and Immigration Services are upending cases that once moved smoothly, from family petitions to green card renewals and naturalization. According to a report by Law360, the disruptions reach the agency's Washington headquarters and ripple through service centers and field offices. The report calls the shifts opaque, meaning practitioners cannot trace them to any announced rule, revised form or policy update. Routine cases are being thrown off the standard track of receipt notices, biometrics appointments, requests for evidence, interviews and decisions. For Kenyan families, the affected filings include the petition for alien relative, the green card replacement application, and the naturalization form that leads to citizenship.

Turning to news from Kenya, former President Uhuru Kenyatta's planned visit to Rigathi Gachagua's Wamunyoro home is testing the former Deputy President's leadership of Mount Kenya. Uhuru announced last Wednesday he would visit the Nyeri residence, joking he intended to collect one point five million shillings allegedly given for his twenty seventeen reelection campaign but misspent. He announced it at a funeral service in Lang'ata, and set no date. The visit follows months of lobbying by the Kikuyu Council of Elders, led by Wachira Kiago, to consolidate the region after Gachagua's impeachment in October twenty twenty-four. Gachagua blamed President Ruto for driving a wedge between him and Uhuru, vowing never to be separated again.

Staying in Kenya, aid agencies are struggling to provide food, medical care and shelter to more than fifty thousand Ethiopian refugees, according to a report published today. The Ethiopians add to the larger displaced populations Kenya already hosts, most from Somalia and South Sudan, based at Dadaab and Kakuma. The report notes Ethiopia has faced successive displacement crises, including the two-year Tigray war, ended by the Pretoria agreement in November twenty twenty-two, the Horn of Africa's worst drought in four decades, and catastrophic flooding. Millions remain displaced inside Ethiopia, and Sudan's war has pushed hundreds of thousands more refugees into the region. Kenya's Refugees Act of twenty twenty-one widened access to work and services.

Also from Kenya, fishermen around Lake Naivasha suspect poisoning after more than six hippos died in the lake in two weeks. Four more carcasses were spotted in the Kibokoni area and near the Malewa River. Kenya Wildlife Service officer Duncan Juma says teams sent to collect samples have been hampered by heavy rain and water hyacinth. Beach operators say the floating carcasses threaten fishermen, tourists and shoreline businesses. Laban Ewoi of the Kamere Beach Management Unit says the dead animals had bloated stomachs and no visible wounds. Grace Nyambura of the Lake Naivasha and Lake Oloiden Fishermen's Organisation calls it the highest hippo death toll in the lake in years, and wants a quick investigation.

Staying with Kenyan politics, Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has rejected calls for opposition unity talks ahead of the August twenty twenty-seven Nairobi gubernatorial race, insisting he will not step down for any rival. Speaking on K24, he dismissed dropping out to avoid splitting the vote, asking how one steps down in a race he is already winning. The contest has also drawn Embakasi North MP James Gakuya, Kasarani MP Ronald Karauri, Makadara MP George Aladwa and Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku, alongside Governor Sakaja. Owino pledged to bring serious change in Nairobi within one year, and to resign if he fails to deliver by his second year, rather than wait for impeachment.

Still on Kenyan politics, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has told President Ruto to stop wooing opposition figures ahead of twenty twenty-seven. Speaking in Kiambu and Nyeri, the DCP leader rejected a TIFA survey released on the twelfth of November, which found forty-three percent of opposition supporters blame him for internal disagreements. President Ruto and the ruling UDA came second at fifteen percent, with Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna cited by seven percent. Addressing worshippers at AIC Bathi in Kimende, Gachagua insisted he is the one bringing the opposition together. He named Sifuna, Jubilee's Fred Matiang'i, Wiper's Kalonzo Musyoka and Martha Karua of the People's Liberation Party as having ruled out working with the President.

Turning to world news, record numbers of migrants are reaching Spain's Canary Islands even as the European Union's new migration and asylum laws take effect, exposing the limits of the bloc's border overhaul. The islands, the EU's south-western frontier, are a main gateway for irregular sea arrivals, receiving boats from Mauritania, Senegal and Morocco. The laws form the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted in twenty twenty-four, in force since June. It replaces the Dublin system with mandatory screening, accelerated border procedures, and a solidarity mechanism requiring member states to take relocated asylum seekers or pay twenty thousand euros for each one they refuse. The Atlantic crossing ranks among the world's deadliest migration routes.

And that is your evening edition. The next bulletin is at midday tomorrow. You can read every one of these stories in full, and much more besides, at Mwakilishi.com.

Have a good evening.

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