The reddish soil of the Shakahola forest is still giving up its terrible secrets. Two hours drive from Kenya’s coastal tourist town of Malindi, forensic teams turn off the tarred road into a thicket of thorn bush, entering a crime…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of bodies have been found in a Kenyan forest as part of an investigation into a religious cult that pushed its members to starve themselves. CNN's David McKenzie reports.[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court has ordered 64 followers of a controversial starvation cult to undergo psychiatric evaluation as they continue to refuse to eat. The followers were charged with attempted suicide on Monday after persistently refusing meals offered to them following…[Continue Reading...]
The death toll linked to a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to “meet Jesus” has reached at least 318 people as of this week, after investigators exhumed more bodies from mass graves in Shakahola…[Continue Reading...]
16 Shakahola mass murder suspects in police custody have grown increasingly weak after embarking on a hunger strike for the last 10 days.[Continue Reading...]
The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practiced starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said. Police believe most of the bodies found in a…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were…[Continue Reading...]
New details have emerged indicating that over 80 members of a cult who went missing from Uganda last month had been duped by their pastor of an impending doomsday and that they would only be spared by meeting Jesus in…[Continue Reading...]
Sixty-five survivors of a Kenyan Christian cult are facing charges of attempted suicide after refusing to eat meals given to them at the rescue centre where they had been taken. At court on Monday, the prosecution applied to have the…[Continue Reading...]
Since March 2023, Mathias Shipeta has been at the heart of the Kenya starvation cult rescue operation. Pulling out emaciated cult members from thickets and losing some in the process has taken a toll on him. The cult leader Paul…[Continue Reading...]
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