DIASPORA NEWS

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o says winning an Oscar Award made it easy for her to acquire the United States Green Card. Speaking during an interview with Thanu Yakupitiyage and Rage Kidvai of the ‘Bad Brown Aunties’ podcast, Lupita said she struggled to establish herself in the US as she…

After living in the United States for many years, four Kenyan immigrants joined hands six years ago to establish one of the fastest-growing freight companies in the country. The four; Alex Karundu, Michael Njenga, Herbert Lang'at and Bernard Lang'at formed Seagate Holdings LLC in 2014 through a…

A Kenyan aviation student was on Tuesday arrested in the Philippines with bomb-making materials. Philippine News Agency reported that Cholo Abdi Abdullah was nabbed at Rasca Hotel in Iba, Zambales, a province in the northwest of the Philippines. The country's Director of Criminal Investigations and…

Norah Borus Chelagat, a 24-year-old Kenyan student who was found dead in her university room in California earlier this month will be buried on Saturday. The lifeless body of Ms. Borus was found in her on-campus room at Stanford University in California on Friday, June 14th. Her family was allowed…

Saudi Arabian authorities have released two Kenyan women who had been detained at a labor office for several months. The two; Elizabeth Sineno from Mombasa County and Eunice Mshiki had been detained at a labor office in the city of Al-Jouf Sakaka. They were freed hours after Ms. Sineno sent audio…

A Kenyan-born woman who went missing in Germany about two months ago has been found dead. The decomposing body of 32-year-old Rita Awour Ojunge was reportedly found by officers from the South Brandenburg Police Department. A Germany newspaper reported that officers found her remains in a…

A Kenyan woman who has been detained by Saudi Arabian authorities for the past one year is appealing for help to return home. Elizabeth Sineno from Watamu in Mombasa County released recordings calling out for help. Sineno said she traveled to the Middle East country in 2014 in search of employment…

Kenyans in the diaspora sent home Sh117.56 billion ($1.15 billion) in the first five months of 2019, latest figures from Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) show. This represents a measly 3.78 percent growth compared to the same period last year.  Diaspora remittances in the month of May hit Sh24.75…

A Kenyan man who won $1 million (about KSh100 million) in a raffle competition in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates cannot be traced. Paul Wachira was announced as the winner of the raffle competition on Tuesday after his ticket number 2162 was drawn in the latest series of the Dubai lottery. On…

A Kenyan man was one of two truck drivers killed in a multiple-vehicle crash along Interstate 94 in Racine County, Wisconsin on Wednesday last week. William Siruri, of Clayton, North Carolina, lost his life in an accident in which a truck driver hit a construction barrier then hit a median wall…