DIASPORA NEWS

Police in India are investigating an incident in which a 25-year-old Kenyan woman reportedly committed suicide on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Vinimanyasa Idbo, who was originally from Thika in Kiambu County. Vinimanyasa jumped from the 14th floor of a housing society in the city of…

Kenyan biomedical scientist Dr. Joshua Muia (Ph.D.) has been awarded a $1.67 million research grant in the US. Muia, an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Oklahoma State University (OSU), was recently awarded a five-year $1.67 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical…

A Kenyan woman has shared details on how a Mzungu inspired her to move back to Kenya after living abroad for 14 years.  Through a Facebook post on Friday, Trizear Nguti says she used to talk ill things about Kenya until a white man opened her eyes to see the good side of her motherland. “I…

Kenyan woman Dorothy Bosibori Ong’era, who died in the US a year ago, has finally been accorded a decent send-off. Her remains were reburied at a cemetery in Emerald Hills Funeral Home in Kennedale City, Texas in a ceremony attended by her father David Ong’era, some of her siblings, and friends. "I…

Morgan State University (MSU), a historically black university in Baltimore, Maryland has launched an alumni association in Kenya. The move is aimed at strengthening Morgan’s connection with former students and tap into their expertise. MSU Kenyan alumni chapter was launched in Nairobi on Tuesday…

Kenyans in the diaspora sent home $329.1 million (Sh36.02 billion) in November, the latest data by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows. This represents a five percent drop from Sh38 billion ($337.4 million) received in the previous month which was a record for remittances in a single month. The…

UK-based Kenyan scholar Dr. Patricia King’ori has made history after attaining a full professorship at the prestigious Oxford University. This makes the Kenyan-born sociologist one of the youngest female scholars to become a full professor in the Ivy-league college’s 925-year history. She also…

The first case against alleged Kenyan-born serial killer Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, who is accused of killing 18 elderly women in the Dallas area, was last week declared a mistrial. This is after the 12 jurors selected for his capital murder trial in the 2018 smothering of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris…

A Kenyan family is seeking answers following the death of their kin in Saudi Arabia. Lucy Wanja died under mysterious circumstances 10 days after arriving in the Gulf state to work as a housemaid. A few days after leaving the country for Saudi Arabia on September 12th, the family received a phone…

Parliament Budget Office (PBO) wants Kenya to close down some embassies and instead hire foreigners to carry out the country’s diplomatic duties. The office says the move will not only lower rent, but also reduce the cost of hosting Kenyan diplomats in foreign countries. It argues that despite…