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Churches and civic organizations have launched a fundraising drive for a dozen of Kenyans living in Houston, Texas area in the US who were affected by hurricane Harvey and forced from their homes or their property damaged. A GoFundMe account has been created to raise funds for the Kenyan community…
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Former US-based lawyer Susan Kihika has been appointed as the Majority Chief Whip in the Kenyan Senate. Kihika, the newly elected Nakuru County Senator on a Jubilee Party ticket, will take the crucial role following a nod by the President Uhuru's party. Jubilee Party won the majority seats in both…
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Josphat Loukot had lived in the streets for several years, before Full Gospel Churches of Kenya in Noiwet, Baringo County intervened and convinced him to abandon the streets life. Soon after, the church helped enroll him to Noiwet Primary School in 2004 under guidance of one community elder. Even…
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A Kenyan man was on Monday charged in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with being in possession of an illegal firearm, which witnesses said he uses to threaten passers-by on Saturday. Kevin Oscar Naholi, 40-year-old, on Monday appeared before U.S. District Court and was charged with being in possession a…
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Susan Njeri Kariuki, the founder of Dallas, Texas-based Karisan Media passed away on Friday at a Dallas area hospital following a short illness. Ms Kariuki passed away at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Plano, a suburb of Dallas after going into Acute Respiratory distress. She was also suffering…
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Job Mogire beat all odds to rise from Kerongorori Seventh Day Adventist Mixed Secondary School in Kissi County to become a research scholar at Harvard University’s Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program. Mogire narrates how he overcame stuttering in his early life days to rise through…
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US-based lawyer Martin Oketch has become the latest entrant in an already flooded race for Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker. Oketch, who has been working as an attorney for a bank in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday announced his bid for the position, saying that his desire to inject meaningful…
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Former US-based lawyer and newly-elected Nakuru County Senator Susan Kihika is embroiled in a family feud surrounding children custody. A billionaire businessman said to be her husband has been sued by his first wife, where she accuses the senator of mistreating her children who are in custody of…
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A Kenyan-born doctor has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison and ordered to pay $18 million in restitution for Medicare fraud scheme by a federal court in Dallas, Texas. Dr Ransome Njekia Etindi, 57, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud while working at Dallas-based practice…
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US-based scholar Dr. Vincent Kandagor Chesire, of Knoxville, Tennessee has passed on in Kenya after he was involved in a flash flood accident in Marigat, Baringo County. Kendagor reportedly died while undergoing treatment at a Eldoret Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He is said to have been…

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