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Preacher Paul Mackenzie, center, who was arrested two weeks ago for asking his followers to starve to death in order to meet Jesus, appears at a court in Malindi, Kenya Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The court in Malindi released the pastor and the police re-arrested him and presented him at an upper court in the coastal town of Shanzu. (AP Photo)

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Kenya cult death toll hits 200, with more than 600 reported missing
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI - Associated Press
Sat,05/13/23-12:59PM , 429 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death toll linked to a doomsday cult in Kenya hit 201 Saturday after police exhumed 22 more bodies, most of them bearing signs of starvation, according to the coast regional commissioner.
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The exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult are laid out in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya Sunday, April 23, 2023. Dozens of bodies have been discovered so far in shallow graves on land owned by a pastor Paul Makenzi in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. (AP Photo)

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Kenyan cult deaths at 73, president likens them to terrorism
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI - Associated Press
Mon,04/24/23-6:40AM , 345 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday compared the dozens of starvation deaths among the followers of a pastor in the south of the country with the results of terrorist acts, as the new death toll rose to 73.

He maintained that the pastor, Paul Makenzi, who is in police custody, should be in prison.
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A protester jumps in the air as he throws a rock towards police next to a burning barricade in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, March 20, 2023. Hundreds of opposition supporters have taken to the streets of the Kenyan capital over the result of the last election and the rising cost of living, in protests organized by the opposition demanding that the president resigns from office. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Arrests as Kenya opposition leads anti-government protests
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI - Associated Press
Mon,03/20/23-5:21AM , 282 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least three Kenyan legislators and several protesters have been arrested and then released for participating in protests in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in which opposition supporters demanded the resignation of President William Ruto.
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Kenyan senator Gloria Orwoba distributes free sanitary pads to girls at Mukuru Community Center Primary school, while explaining to them the need to openly discuss menstruation to end period shaming, in the Mukuru neighborhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Orwoba has said that she attended parliament last month while wearing a white pantsuit stained by her menstruation in order to combat the stigma surrounding women's monthly periods. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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With stained pants, Kenyan senator fights menstruation taboo
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI - Associated Press
Wed,03/08/23-2:04AM , 231 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The sight of a red bloodstain on Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba's white pantsuit was so startling that a female security guard rushed over to hide it.

It was an accident, Orwoba said. Just before walking into parliament, she looked down to discover that she had been caught unprepared by her monthly period.
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