Cult

A Kenyan judge has ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest.…

The Kenyan preacher at the centre of a doomsday cult that led to the deaths of more than 400 people, Paul Mackenzie, was found guilty, but not of their killings. The senior resident magistrate in the town of Malindi, Olga Onalo, instead…

The death toll from the "Shakahola massacre" in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where a sect whose leader advocated fasting to "meet Jesus" was meeting, has now risen to 201 after the discovery of 22 new bodies, the region's prefect…

Movement will be restricted in the 320-hectare ranch owned by a Kenyan pastor who is accused of directing his followers to fast to death. The country's interior minister announced that for 30 days, the area will be subjected to a curfew…