The suspects in a Kenyan doomsday cult are ordered to be hospitalised after a hunger strike
Nairobi, Kenya AP A Kenyan magistrate Tuesday ordered the main suspect in a doomsday starvation cult and 94 of his followers to receive emergency care after some of the suspects had to be carried into the courtroom to answer manslaughter charges, too frail and weak to “even open their eyes” after an apparent hunger strike […]
Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths
Mombasa, Kenya Reuters Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 94 others were charged on Thursday with terrorism-related crimes related to the deaths of 429 of his followers whose bodies have been exhumed from the Shakahola forest. The charges, announced during an appearance before a court in the south-eastern city of Mombasa, are the first to […]
Bus passengers use rope to pull themselves to safety as floods hit Kenya’s Mombasa
Mombasa, KenyaReuters Heavy rains pounded the streets of Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, with some passengers evacuated from a flooded bus by holding on to a rope amid chest-high water. A man wades through flood waters along a street following heavy rains in Kisauni district of Mombasa, Kenya, on 17th November, 2023. PICTRE: Reuters/Stringer Others […]
King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit
Nairobi, Kenya AP King Charles III met with religious leaders Friday to promote peace and security in Kenya during the last day of his four-day trip. The King spent a rainy Friday morning touring Mandhry Mosque, East Africa’s oldest mosque, before meeting with Christian, Hindu, Muslim and African traditional faith leaders in an Anglican cathedral in […]
Tax-hike protesters clash with Kenyan police, two shot dead
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with police on Wednesday and two were shot dead, officers on the scene said, in anti-tax protests in cities and towns around Kenya called by opposition leader Raila Odinga. Police fired tear gas to disperse protests in the capital Nairobi, the port city of Mombasa and several other towns, according […]
Kenya sets up inquiry into cult deaths, leader to remain in prison
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that their alleged cult leader remain in prison. Kenyan authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church led by […]
Kenya court frees pastor accused of links to cult leader
Mombasa, Kenya Reuters A Kenyan court on Thursday released on bond a televangelist detained last week as part of an investigation into the deaths of dozens of people whom police say starved themselves to death on the instructions of a cult leader. Kenya’s interior minister accused Pastor Ezekiel Odero after his arrest last Thursday of […]
POSTCARDS: IN KENYA, WOMEN TRAFFICKED FROM SOUTH ASIA TO DANCE IN BOLLYWOOD-STYLE BARS
NITA BHALLA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Kenya…