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...]
It started with one family. Then another arrived, then another. Soon there were enough of them to begin clearing a section of the forest, cutting down the moringa and acacia trees, and uprooting thick shrubs. The forest, known as Shakahola,…[Continue Reading...]
A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last…[Continue Reading...]
A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The latest death toll in Kenya’s cult investigation has risen to 95 as the government announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the ranch owned by a pastor who is accused of ordering his followers to fast to…[Continue Reading...]
The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult. “I did not believe to see my people the way…[Continue Reading...]
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