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Not Among the Deported: A Kenyan Mother's Two-Year Search for the Son Dubai Swallowed

His colleagues were arrested in the same June 2024 raid and came home months later. John Maina Wanjiru never did — and no official record says why.

1 day ago4 min

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Business

The Summer of Thin Kerosene: Why the Flight Home to Kenya Costs More This July

A ten-week closure of the Strait of Hormuz drained jet fuel stocks from Europe to the Gulf, and the bill is landing on diaspora booking screens just as the annual journey home begins.

1 day ago5 min

Dubai skyline at dusk seen from the water, towers lit against a fading sky

Diaspora

The Phone That Went Dead in Dubai: How a Missing Kericho Man Surfaced in a Deportation Camp

6 days ago5 min

A person holds a smartphone with a glowing screen in the dark at night

Culture

Goodbye on a Live Feed: How a Kenyan TikTok Star's Death in Philadelphia Bound a Diaspora in Grief

9 days ago5 min

Aerial view of Dubai's high-rise skyline and highway in the United Arab Emirates

Diaspora

The Visa Stamp That Now Waits at the Gate: How a UAE Rule Change Eases Travel for Kenyans Living Abroad

11 days ago4 min

Wide view of Jumeirah Beach in Dubai with calm Persian Gulf waters under a clear sky

Culture

The Beach That Took Skullchrusher: How One Kenyan Creator's Death in Dubai Shook the Diaspora's Online Family

12 days ago5 min

Diaspora

The Stamp at the Gate: How a Quiet UAE Rule Change Eases the Journey for Kenya's Globe-Spanning Diaspora

12 days ago6 min

Kenyan shilling banknotes fanned out, representing the diaspora remittances that support millions of households back home

Business

The Smaller Envelope: How Gulf Turmoil Pushed Kenya's Diaspora Lifeline Into the Red

12 days ago5 min

The Dubai skyline at dusk, with the Burj Khalifa rising above the city's towers

Diaspora

The Gulf Door That Opens Only for Those Already Gone: How a New UAE Rule Rewards Kenya's Diaspora

13 days ago5 min

The Dubai skyline at dusk, with the Burj Khalifa rising above the city's towers in the United Arab Emirates.

World

The Stamp at the Gate: How a New UAE Rule Just Made Dubai Easier for Kenyans Living Abroad

13 days ago5 min

A hand holding cash banknotes, evoking money sent home by Kenyan workers in the diaspora.

Business

The Money That Stopped Coming Home: How the Gulf's Troubles Turned Kenya's Diaspora Lifeline Negative

13 days ago5 min

Dubai's Jumeirah Beach, with the high-rise towers of Dubai Marina rising along the Gulf shoreline

Diaspora

The Fare to Bring Them Home: How a String of Kenyan Deaths in the Gulf Is Testing Families and a Promised Welfare Fund

14 days ago5 min

Sunbathers and calm turquoise water along the shoreline of Dubai's Jumeirah Beach on a bright, clear day.

Diaspora

An Ordinary Day at Jumeirah Beach: Why Another Kenyan Death in the Gulf Has Families Counting the Cost of Coming Home

14 days ago5 min

The terminal building at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, gateway for Kenyans travelling abroad for work and study.

Diaspora

The Long Wait for Answers: Why Kenyan Families Who Lose Loved Ones Abroad Keep Turning to Parliament

15 days ago5 min

The skyline of a Gulf city at dusk, where tens of thousands of Kenyan migrant workers are employed.

Business

The Calm After the Sirens: What an Iran Ceasefire Means for the Kenyans Who Keep the Gulf Running

16 days ago5 min

Travellers and vehicles outside a terminal at Dubai International Airport in the early morning, United Arab Emirates

Diaspora

The Thirty-Day Window: How a UAE Visa Reprieve Is Buying Stranded Kenyans Time to Stay Legal

17 days ago5 min

A wooden judge's gavel resting on a dark surface beside a law book, symbolising a court ruling

Politics

The Door That Stays Open: Why a Kenyan Court Refused to Halt Gulf Labour Migration and Ordered a Reckoning Instead

17 days ago5 min

Travellers move through the bright, columned interior of Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.

World

The Thirty-Day Window in Abu Dhabi: How Flight Chaos Handed Kenyans in the UAE a Visa Lifeline

17 days ago5 min

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, the main departure point for Kenyan labour migrants heading to the Gulf

Politics

A Single Coffin and a Court's Limit: Why Kenya's Judges Chose Vetting Over a Ban on Gulf Labour Migration

18 days ago5 min