36 autopsies were carried out today. 18 were male, 17 were female and 1 was unidentified. Of those, 33 bodies severely decomposed. The post-mortem examination further revealed that two more followers of the good news international cult were murdered.[Continue Reading...]
Interior CS Professor Kithure Kindiki says detectives probing the massacre have uncovered sexual abuse and exploitation of little girls in Shakahola. The Interior CS say detectives have identified the shanties where the sexual orgy took place, adding that investigations have…[Continue Reading...]
Kenya's Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki before the Senate Ad hoc Committee on the Proliferation of Religious Organisations which is investigating the Shakahola deaths. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a taxi driver-turned-preacher, used armed gangs with blunt objects to kill some…[Continue Reading...]
The devastating effects of the Shakahola fasting cult linked to former pastor Paul Mackenzie has left many families of loved ones that disappeared without a trace confused and destitute. At Majengo in Shakahola village in Malindi sub-county, Kilifi county, 28-year-old…[Continue Reading...]
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has revealed that a section of Controversial cult leader Paul Mackenzie's followers holed up in Shakahola forest have fled towards Galana Kulalu and Tsavo National Park. Speaking in Malindi while overseeing the commencement of the second…[Continue Reading...]
The government has been accused of denying friends and relatives access to persons rescued from the Shakahola forest. Some of the families affected by the deaths of more than 210 people and the disappearance of at least 610 people have…[Continue Reading...]
Rhoda Maweu is the third wife of cult leader Paul Makenzie who is accused of urging followers to starve to death to meet Jesus. Mackenzie’s first and second wife died a few years back. According to the detectives, Rhoda Maweu…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a doomsday cult leader accused over the deaths of dozens of people to be held behind bars for three more weeks. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie faces terrorism charges over what has been dubbed the "Shakahola…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, KENYA - A court in Kenya on Friday gave police five more days to hold a pastor facing possible terror-related charges in the deaths of more than 100 of his congregants, many of whom are believed to have starved to…[Continue Reading...]
Morris Yimbo is struggling to come to terms with losing his three sons in a starvation cult in the forest of Shakahola, a deeply traditional remote village of southeastern Kenya. Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed pastor who in 2003 founded the…[Continue Reading...]
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