DIASPORA NEWS

Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi is currently on a tour to the United States. Mudavadi’s delegation comprising Sabatia MP Alfred Agoi, his Nambale counterpart Bunyasi Sakwa, and former Lamu Governor Issa Timamy and ANC Secretary-General Barrack Muluka among other leaders landed…

For the second month in a row, Kenya diaspora remittances have slumped in what is attributed to the expiry of the tax amnesty offered by the government for Kenyans to repatriate wealth stashed abroad. Kenyans living and working overseas sent home $214 million (Sh22.2 billion) in the month of August…

President Kenyatta’s nominee for Kenyan High Commissioner to South Korea Mwende Mwinzi claims that she is being discriminated against by Kenyan MPs. Speaking during an interview with The Sunday Standard, Mwende, a Kenyan-American, said MPs were taking advantage of the fact that she was born in the…

Two Kenyan men in Minnesota have been charged with felony sexual assault of a woman with mental and physical impairments. Authorities say Francis Ndegwa Kamau, 39, of Spring Lake Park, MN and Kenneth Wagacha Kibe, 37, of Burnsville, MN sexually assaulted a woman diagnosed with mild intellectual…

Hodgen Mainda, a Kenya-born man who was appointed as the new Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance in Tennessee, has taken an oath of office. The 42-year-old was sworn-in this week by Governor Bill Lee and becomes the newest Cabinet member in the Tennessee State Government. Mainda, who first moved…

Mwende Mwinzi, President Kenyatta’s nominee for the position of Kenyan High Commissioner to South Korea has filed a case seeking to block MPs from forcing her to renounce her United States citizenship. In a case filed at the High Court on Tuesday, Mwinzi argues that forcing her to relinquish her US…

A Kenyan man who was arrested for organizing a ‘wealth and business’ conference in Rwanda in June this year has been sentenced to prison. Charles Kinuthia was handed a two-year prison sentence plus a fine of $3,254 after a Kigali court found him guilty of fraud. Kinuthia was accused of deceiving…

Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA) has protested MPs’ demand that Kenyan-American Mwende Mwinzi renounces her US citizenship in order to take an ambassadorial role in South Korea. Last week, members of National Assembly Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee gave Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma 10 days to…

Deported Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna has questioned the competency of Kenyan investigating authorities over the murder of Nairobi-based Dutch billionaire Tob Cohen. Taking to social media hours after the body of Cohen was recovered on Friday; Miguna reckoned the mission would have taken…

The Trump administration has proposed to collect social media information from immigrants applying for among other benefits citizenship, asylum and green cards through marriage. In a notice published in the Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants immigrants to be required…