Little Maido is being treated with special milk for severe malnutrition (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Infants with sunken eyes and wasted muscles lie unnaturally still and silent, their energy sapped by severe malnutrition. Their frail bodies are weakened by dehydration and diarrhoea. Some
A Kenyan court has set a 3 million shilling bond for pastor Ezekiel Odero, an affiliate of starvation cult leader and mass murder suspect Paul Mackenzie. Odero’s lawyers acknowledge that 15 of his followers died at his church, but all were reported
Pastors Paul Mackenzie and Ezekiel Odero have appeared in court after being arrested in connection with a cult that led over 100 followers to starve themselves to death. Mackenzie, whose 800-acre coastal property was found littered with at least 110 emaciated bodies,
Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third day as government pathologists began autopsies. The official number of victims had
Kenyan police have arrested Ezekiel Odero, a popular megachurch pastor, in connection with Paul Makenzi’s starvation cult, which has left at least 103 people dead. Odero, whose YouTube channel has over 400,000 subscribers, bought Makenzi’s television channel after he moved to the
The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90 on Tuesday, as the country’s interior minister announced an expanded
Kenyan police dug up dozens of bodies over the weekend on land owned by a cult leader who allegedly told his followers to starve themselves to death in order to go to heaven, police said. At least 46 bodies have been exhumed
Afghan families are being forced to sell their children to avoid starvation, with women’s rights having all but disappeared since the return of the Taliban 18 months ago, a frightened female aid worker has the Express. And she also urged the international