Monthly Archives: July 2018
Sommerfest 2018 celebrates Mandela Centenary with Music for Mandela
The Minnesota Orchestra celebrated Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday with a 'Day of Music' both indoors and outdoors featuring different musicians and genres on Saturday,...
Obama finally attempts to bring change to Kenya
When Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States, Kenya, and Africa as a whole, had a...
Homeland Security extends Temporary Protected Status for Somalis
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen announced Thursday that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 500 Somali nationals will be extended for another 18...
Black psychologists urged to do their own research
Black psychologists have been urged to do their own research to address the dearth of research on the mental health needs of people of...
Kenya Airways CEO meets with US media to discuss upcoming direct flights and diaspora...
NEW YORK - Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz and the airline's chairman Michael Joseph met with members of the media to discuss their Nairobi...
US Military discharging immigrant recruits it had promised citizenship
US Immigrants who were promised citizenship by the US military are being discharged without explanation, according to an AP report. Those being discharged enrolled...
Minneapolis festival celebrates Somali Independence Day
MINNEAPOLIS - Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday between Blaisdell and Stevens Avenue block of West Lake Street to commence Somalia’s 58th Independence Day.
Every...
Kenya Airways courts the diaspora in advance of direct flights to US
Kenya Airways’ senior sales manager for key markets, Jennifer Njuguna, has urged Kenyans in the US to show their patriotism by flying the airline...
UN official, Roselyn Akombe, urges Kenyan diaspora to keep on excelling
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota - Dr. Roselyn Akombe, chief of policy, guidance and learning at the department of political affairs, United Nations New York, was...