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NAIROBI – When Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo stepped off Kenya Airways flight KQ764 from Dar es Salaam on Wednesday evening, the arrivals hall at JKIA erupted. Mothers waved placards reading “Our Sons Are Home” while Gen Z activists sang the national anthem through tears.
RIYADH/NAIROBI – They have Kenyan blood but no Kenyan papers. They speak Arabic before they speak Swahili or Luhya or Kikuyu. They are the children born to Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia – and right now more than 500 of them are growing up in government orphanages because neither Riyadh nor Nairobi seems willing to claim them.
ELDORET – Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Kipchoge Cheruiyot (no relation to the marathon legend) left his village in Moiben on a cold July morning with a small backpack and a promise of $2,000 a month. Three months later his mother received a single photo: Emmanuel in Russian camouflage, holding an AK-12 somewhere near the Ukrainian border.
NAIROBI – At exactly 11:17 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025, the Central Bank of Kenya’s real-time remittances dashboard rolled past the symbolic figure: KSh 1,000,000,000,000. One trillion shillings sent home by Kenyans living abroad in just ten months –
