DIASPORA NEWS
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Two-time world champion Kenyan-American runner Bernard Lagat has hit out at United States President Donald Trump for describing Haiti and African nations as “shithole" countries.
Taking to Twitter, the aggrieved 1500 metres race American record holder criticized President Trump for the racial slur…
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Kenyans working and living in the United States have expressed their excitement over plans by national carrier, Kenya Airways to launch direct flights to the New York City beginning October this year.
Speaking to the Nation, a number of Kenyans in the diaspora hailed the plan, noting that it will…
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A Kenyan woman is trapped in Qatar after her employer reportedly confiscated her passport in order to exploit her.
The migrant, identified only as Wairimu had initially been hired as a tutor for three children from a rich family in Qatar.
Things however turned different after the employer offered…
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Forty five private firms have received government's nod to recruit Kenyans for employment abroad, in an effort to eliminate fraudulent hiring agencies.
In a gazette notice on Tuesday, National Employment Authority acting director-general Rael Rotich published the names of the 45 companies that have…
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A Kenyan woman in the United States has been found dead in her Columbus, Ohio apartment.
23-year-old Irine Mudagale Yonge reportedly collapsed and passed away on December 29th in her apartment in East Columbus, while preparing to report to work.
Her body was discovered a day later, after one of her…
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We are deeply saddened to inform you that Nicholas Marenga Mburu of Ellicott City, Maryland passed away on Sunday, January 7th in a tragic car accident off Route 100 and Snowden.
Nicholas was a graduate of Mt. Hebron High and UMBC. He leaves behind his beloved parents Joyce and Joseph Mburu and his…
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An autopsy carried out on the body of a Kenyan student who passed on aboard a Delta Airways flight in the United States days to Christmas have revealed that he succumbed to a heart attack.
Griffin Gutwa(18), a medical student at the University of San Diego was headed home from San Diego in…
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A Kenyan family living in the United States whose son died aboard a Delta Airways plane headed to Minneapolis from San Diego days before Christmas has questioned the circumstances leading to his demise.
18-year-old Griffin Gutwa had just completed his exams at the San Diego University and was…
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Diaspora remittances have reduced by 5.56 percent in the month of November 2017 in comparison to October.
This is the first time the inflows from diaspora have decreased since August 2017, even as the cumulative remittances in the first 11 months of the year reached a new record high.
Official data…
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A Kenyan teenager in the United States reportedly died inside a Minneapolis-bound Delta Airlines flight that had left San Diego, California.
18-year-old Griffin Gutwa, a medicine student at the University of San Diego, California allegedly died after falling asleep in the plane while on his way…
