A 17-year-old witness testified in a Mombasa court about her harrowing experience surviving solely on water for 38 days in Shakahola Forest before police rescued her. Now under state protection, the teenager shared a chilling account of her forced removal…[Continue Reading...]
World Kenya starvation cult leader on trial for manslaughter over deaths of more than 400 followers August 12, 2024 / 6:48 AM EDT / AFP The leader of a Kenyan starvation sect went on trial on Monday for manslaughter over…[Continue Reading...]
The lack of statutory clarity regarding crimes committed in the propagation of religious extremist ideologies has been identified as one of the many legal gaps that exposed Kenyans who died during the deadly fast in Shakahola Forest to religious extremism…[Continue Reading...]
Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie leveraged technology and social media to lure victims into the Shakahola forest where they were massacred, a witness has told the court. According to a statement by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP),…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of victims of controversial preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s alleged cultic teachings could be buried within the Shakahola Forest following failure to positively identify their bodies through scientific means. Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor on Tuesday hinted at the possibility…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]
Suspected Kilifi cult leader Paul Mackenzie is this week expected to start facing witnesses in a case in which he and 93 others are accused of terror-related offences. Among those lined up to testify against Mackenzie from Monday, July 8,…[Continue Reading...]
Human Rights defenders are concerned over more additional bodies of Shakahola victims at the Malindi sub-county hospital mortuary amid the 5th phase of the exhumation exercise. Over 430 bodies still lie at the mortuary. Human rights activists from the coastal…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan investigators found seven more bodies on Monday as exhumations resumed in a forest where hundreds of victims of a doomsday starvation cult were buried in mass graves, police said. The remains of 436 people have now been unearthed in…[Continue Reading...]
A cult leader in Kenya was charged with murder after the discovery last year of more than 400 bodies in a remote forest. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Carey Baraka about the case. Listen to the broadcast.[Continue Reading...]
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