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A Kenyan national was on Thursday charged with hacking the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) systems and syphoning $20 million from its bank account.
Primrose Nyeri Mwangi, who is the director of Primkett Travels, was charged with fraud at the Harare Magistrates Court, Zimbabwean…
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A Kenyan family is seeking help to pay medical bills for their daughter, who was reportedly attacked and raped in Albania last August.
22-year-old Joy Aoko was found unconscious under the building where she lived in Tirana, the capital of Albania, and has spent the last three months in a…
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Former IEBC commissioner Dr. Roselyn Akombe has returned to the US after securing a new job at the United Nations (UN).
Akombe, 47, has been appointed as the Chief of Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships at the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
She will be…
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A Kenyan man accused of marrying a woman in Jersey while still married to another in Kenya has been acquitted of bigamy charges.
The Royal Court in Jersey ruled that the case against Douglas Ndenga Akhonya should be dropped, saying the prosecution failed to provide an expert in Kenyan law to…
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About half of Kenyans living and working abroad have taken up an extra job since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to sustain remittances back home, according to a new survey.
The survey conducted last October by global payments company WorldRemit determined that a sizable number of Kenyans in the…
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President Ruto has revealed plans by his administration to increase the number of Kenyans working abroad.
Speaking during a media roundtable with journalists at State House, the president termed the diaspora as a huge resource that his government is keen to tap into, saying the aim is to have…
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A 54-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a missing Kenyan woman from southeast London, United Kingdom.
24-year-old Maureen Gitau was reported missing by her family on December 10th last year, having last been seen five days earlier on December 5th as she left her home in Evelyn Street…
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Police in London, UK have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a Kenyan woman, who is still missing.
24-year-old Maureen Gitau was reported missing by her family on December 10th, having last been seen on December 5th as she left her home on Evelyn Street in Deptford, Lewisham.
BBC reports…
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Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner Roselyn Akombe is back in Kenya for the first time in five years.
Through social media, she posted pictures of herself and captioned them "No place like home! #Kenya.”
Akombe fled to the United States from Kenya days before…
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The family of a Kenyan woman who went missing in London, the United Kingdom three weeks ago is appealing for information regarding her whereabouts.
24-year-old Maureen Gitau was last seen on the evening of December 5th leaving her home in Lewisham, South East London.
Her friends and family reported…
