*Movement will be restricted in the 320-hectare ranch owned by a Kenyan pastor who is accused of directing his followers to fast to death. The country's interior minister announced Wednesday (Apr.26) that for 30 days, the area will be subjected…[Continue Reading...]
The government will on Thursday start conducting a postmortem on the bodies exhumed from the Shakahola forest in Kilifi. This follows a directive by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji earlier this week. The Kilifi cult death toll…[Continue Reading...]
A series of blunders by controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie and his aides made his freedom short-lived after he was released by a court last month, leading to the discovery of mass graves in Kilifi’s Shakahola village. On March 23, Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]
MALINDI, Kenya, April 26 (Reuters) - Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in…[Continue Reading...]
MALINDI, Kenya, April 26 (Reuters) - Dozens of people converged on a morgue in the Kenyan town of Malindi on Wednesday to seek news of relatives they fear were among at least 89 followers of a cult who are thought…[Continue Reading...]
Police have now recovered 89 bodies from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, believed to be linked to a cult that allegedly encouraged its followers to starve themselves to gain salvation, the country’s government said. Kithure Kindiki, the…[Continue Reading...]
Nairobi, Kenya – Since last week, police in Kenya have exhumed at least 73 bodies of people believed to have starved to death, from shallow graves in the country’s coastal region. At the heart of the “massacre” is Pastor Paul Mackenzie,…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan police have now recovered 73 bodies, mostly from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, authorities said. The death…[Continue Reading...]
The mother of it all is the likely massacre that detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have been ravelling since camping in Malindi, Kilifi county. It is in a sect run in the coastal county by controversial Pastor…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan police have this morning resumed a search in a forest in the country's east where the bodies of 58 suspected cult members have been exhumed from shallow graves. Police said the search inland from Malindi was continuing not just…[Continue Reading...]
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