Kenya – Cautious optimism as the country opens up after months of partial lockdown
Reuters – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Monday a phased reopening of the country from a COVID-19 lockdown, lifting restrictions on travel in and out of the capital Nairobi and allowing air travel to resume. Kenyatta said the country has reached a reasonable level of preparedness for a partial loosening of restrictions but urged More...
Financing Africa – The role of Africa Diaspora Remittance and Diaspora Savings
Financing Africa’s public and private sector projects has always been an expensive business, the outbreak of COVID 19 adds further strain to Africa’s access to finance in an already stretched environment. More...
Kenya Society mourns long standing Member – Wangula Khasiani
Kenya community in the UK and Kenya Society are mourning the death of Mr Wangula Khasiani, who passed away in a London Hospital . He had been undergoing treatment for COVID 19. Our deepest sympathy, thoughts and More...
World Bank Predicts Sharpest Decline of Remittances in Recent History
Remittances to sub-Saharan African economies could fall by as much as 23.1% this year according to new World Bank estimates, due to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Total flows could drop from $48bn in 2019 More...
Unwanted at Home and abroad ‘ Kenyans in the Diaspora protest Government Negligence.
Kenyans in the Diaspora are frustrated and accuse the Government of neglecting them. We are much more than the Remittance we send home, they said. Unwanted at home and abroad – ”They let politicians, More...
We are much more than the remittance’ – Kenya Diaspora
Kenyans in the Diaspora ‘those of the remittance’ are constantly reminded of their patriotic duty to support Kenya’s economic development by way of sending money (remittance) More...
London – Kenyan led Climate Ministries under investigation over fake Corona Virus Protection Kit
Authorities in the UK are investigating Bishop Climate Ministries, part of the Kingdom church in South London for exploiting the public , taking advantage of the Corona Virus Pandemic by selling “plague protection” More...
Incidents of police brutality as Kenyans start 21 days of national curfew.
The country started its night curfew in a chaotic and shambolic way that will likely spread the virus even more amongst the security officers and the public. Many Kenyans rushed home to beat the curfew but many More...
Landslide in Kenya’s West Pokot – 60 people dead!
The death toll from landslides in northwestern Kenya triggered by unusually heavy rains rose to at least 60 on Sunday, according to Kenyan authorities. Downpours began on Friday in West Pokot county which borders More...
Are diaspora Kenyans only worth the dollar they remit? – Death in the Diaspora!
In a space of two months, two Kenyans living in Berlin Germany, both reported missing have been found dead in unexplainable circumstances. According to newspaper reports from Germany and the Kenya, in October, a More...
