Kenyan labour migration Stories

Government expands passport services to ease Nyayo House congestion
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Dec 05, 2025

The Interior Ministry plans new passport application centres in Nairobi and several counties to ease Nyayo House congestion, cut travel distances and...

US suspends asylum, immigration benefits for citizens of 19 countries
Charity Pancras  |  Dec 03, 2025

According to a memo issued on Tuesday by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the suspension applies to both newly filed cases and those that...

National Employment Authority bans 400 recruitment agencies for fake overseas jobs
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 03, 2025

Kenya’s National Employment Authority has banned at least 400 recruitment agencies for sending Kenyans to non-existent jobs abroad, amid a wider crack...

Mutua sounds alarm as drug abuse blocks coast youth from lucrative jobs abroad
Farhiya Hussein  |  Dec 01, 2025

Labour CS Alfred Mutua warns that rising drug abuse is causing many Coast youth to fail mandatory medical tests and lose out on well-paying overseas j...

KWS dismisses claims Ritz-Carlton Safari Camp blocks wildebeest migration in Maasai Mara
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 27, 2025

KWS said more than 20 years of GPS tracking data from collared wildebeest show that the migration uses the entire reserve without a specific preferred...

Minnesota leaders rally against Trump’s threat to end Somali Temporary Protected Status
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Nov 25, 2025

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States, with close to 80,000 Somali American residents.

UK announces biggest overhaul of its legal migration model in 50 years
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 21, 2025

The Earned Settlement Model was unveiled Thursday as part of the UK government's Immigration White Paper to restore order and control to the immigrati...

Ruto calls for renewed global commitment to protecting refugees as Kenya hosts landmark judicial conference
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Nov 17, 2025

For the first time since its establishment in 1995, the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges World Conference is being held in Af...

Interpol flags online advertisements offering costly crossings into Europe
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 15, 2025

Groups advertising crossings at a range of prices, from €1,400 (Sh210,000) - from France to the UK, to €4,000 (Sh600,000) -from Greece to France and u...

Climate change is making the world sick: COP30 report links climate change to new disease hotspots
The Conversation  |  Nov 14, 2025

Experts call for urgent action as warming climates help diseases like dengue and chikungunya spread into new territories.

More than 1,000 migrants drown in Mediterranean so far this year, IOM says
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 12, 2025

On November 8, Libyan authorities carried out a search and rescue operation following the capsizing of a rubber boat near Al Buri Oil Field.

US sends Sh969 million to Equatorial Guinea to expedite deportations
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 11, 2025

The payment, confirmed by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reportedly sent directly to...

Exhibition brings to life the untold suffering of Africans crossing to Europe through Libya
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 07, 2025

The Nairobi exhibition challenges Europe’s migration politics by putting faces to the thousands lost at sea — revealing how policy failures and neglec...

Tracing humanity’s origins: New evidence points to a coastal migration from Southern Africa
The Conversation  |  Nov 02, 2025

Around 60,000 years ago, humans could feasibly leave the Horn of Africa for the Arabian Peninsula, as Red Sea records show sea levels were about 100 m...

IGAD states pledge to protect migrants from trafficking and exploitation
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 24, 2025

Labour and Interior ministers from Djibouti, Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Uganda gathered under the theme “Improving Labour Migration an...

Over 30 million people in Sudan in need of humanitarian assistance: UN agencies
XINHUA  |  Oct 24, 2025

In a joint press release, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund and th...

40 migrants dead, 30 rescued after boat capsizes off Tunisian coast
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 23, 2025

40 bodies, including infants, were recovered, and 30 people were rescued. They were all from countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Somalia to launch high-security biometric passport in major ID system overhaul
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Oct 13, 2025

The new passport will be polycarbonate-based and embedded with biometric and anti-forgery features that meet the specifications of the International C...

Over 400,000 IDs uncollected as Senate probes backlog
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 11, 2025

Senator Joe Nyutu has called on the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to investigate the frequent delays in ID proc...

Will the 2026 World Cup be a disaster for fans?
DW News  |  Oct 09, 2025

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to be the most expensive, polluting and political yet.

Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates - how did this become normalised?
The Conversation  |  Oct 03, 2025

In the UK, far-right rallies at asylum hotels have been met by counter demonstrations, with people insisting on a politics of welcome and unity.

Somalia secures release of more than 50 nationals held in DRC
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Sep 30, 2025

Officials said the outcome marks the result of coordinated negotiations between Somali and Congolese authorities, with the Somali Embassy in Tanzania...

173 Somalis repatriated from Libya in joint government-IOM operation
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Sep 23, 2025

Following the arrival of the group in Mogadishu, 22 individuals were flown on to Hargeisa in Somaliland, while the remaining 151 stayed in the capital...

Tanzania cracks down on illegal foreign workers after trade ban
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 15, 2025

In late July, President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government barred non-citizens from engaging in several business sectors to protect opportunities for Ta...

Baby turtles vanish into the Indian Ocean for years: Now a model shows where they might go
The Conversation  |  Sep 13, 2025

There were three distinct dispersal corridors: among equatorial Indian Ocean islands (hawksbills); along east Africa (green turtles); and around south...

Nigerian photographer Michael Oyinbokure challenges stereotypes about migrants
The Conversation  |  Sep 12, 2025

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1997, Oyinbokure studied computer science at the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta. He received a master’s degr...

IOM reopens Khartoum office after two years of conflict in Sudan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 09, 2025

Most UN agencies and foreign embassies moved to Port Sudan after clashes broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid...

IGAD urges coordinated action as regional migration surges
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 06, 2025

The report shows international migration has risen sharply, climbing from 4.1 million people in 2013 to 6.8 million in 2022, an increase of nearly two...

IGAD to unveil migration report highlighting displacement, labour mobility and remittances
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 03, 2025

The report aims to provide a clear picture of migration trends, demographic shifts, and remittance flows to support evidence-based policies across the...

Somalia rolls out new e-Visa system to ease travel, boost security
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 29, 2025

Isxaaq Hassan Taakow, Director of the Department of Foreigners and Entry Permits, said the system has built-in checks to ensure smooth operation.

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