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Kenya court denies bail for suspected death cult leader

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The death toll climbed to 145 from 133 announced on Tuesday, and hundreds of people are still missing.
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Kenyan president sets up inquiry into cult deaths

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Kenyan police clash with anti-government protesters

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Toll rises to 110 in Kenyan cult starvation deaths

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Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya.

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Workers receive the exhumed bodies of followers of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, at the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya.
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Volunteers assist forensic experts and homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), to exhume bodies of suspected followers of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, whose members believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, in Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya.

Kenya cult deaths hits 90 as authorities expand operation

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Kenya’s Inspector General of Police, Japhet Koome, second right, tours the scene where dozens of bodies have been found in shallow graves in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya.

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Security personnel carry a rescued young person from the forest in Shakahola, outside the coastal town of Malindi, on April 23, 2023. Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya while investigating a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said on April 22, 2023, warning the toll could rise.

Kenya's Ruto vows action after 58 bodies linked to cult found

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Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya. Dozens of bodies have been discovered so far in shallow graves in a forest near land owned by a pastor Paul Makenzi in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death.

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Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga.

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A protester throws rocks towards police in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, March 20, 2023. Hundreds of opposition supporters have taken to the streets.

Kenya says 238 arrested in day of violent protests

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The charts were handed over by Indian High Commissioner to Kenya, Namgya Khampa, to Aden Duale, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Defence of Kenya on Wednesday

India hands over 100 nautical charts to Kenya

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A Samburu man sits around cows as he protects livestock from theft in Samburu County, Kenya. File

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Women’s division winner Sharon Lokedi, of Kenya, and men’s division winner Evans Chebet, of Kenya, pose at the finish line of the New York City Marathon on November 6, 2022, in New York.

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Rescuers in boats are seen around the tail fin of a crashed Precision Air passenger aircraft on the shores of Lake Victoria in Bukoba, in western Tanzania Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.

Small passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania killing 19

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Hundreds of elephants, zebras die as Kenya weathers drought

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A member of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) reacts after the flag presentation of the troops under the East Africa Community Regional Force (EACRF), ahead of their deployment to the Peace and Security mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at the Embakasi garrison in Nairobi, Kenya on November 2, 2022.

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Kenya’s President William Ruto. File

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Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks outside Number 10 Downing Street in London on October 25, 2022.

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