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Kenya Reintroduces Tax Reforms With New Deputy President

Kenya plans to reintroduce some of the tax hikes that sparked deadly protests earlier this year, the government announced Friday, while a new deputy president was sworn in after weeks of high political drama.

International Business Times

Kenya’s Kithure Kindiki sworn in as deputy president after court challenge

Former interior minister replaces Rigathi Gachagua who was sacked after parliament impeached him in October.

Al Jazeera

Kenya Court Hears Challenge To Deputy Leader's Impeachment

Kenya's High Court began on Tuesday hearing a legal bid by impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to overturn his ouster in a political saga that has plunged the upper echelons of Kenyan politics into disarray.

International Business Times

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Kenyan political drama as deputy president impeached while in hospital

Senators upheld five of 11 charges in unprecedented vote while Rigathi Gachagua was treated for chest pains

The Guardian - UK

Kenya’s Ruto nominates interior minister as new deputy president

Kithure Kindiki is chosen to replace Rigathi Gachagua, but the High Court stays his appointment until next week.

Al Jazeera

Kenya Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua impeached: Why it matters

Two years after taking office, Gachagua fell out with President Ruto, leading to his ouster from office.

Al Jazeera

Kenya’s Ruto names new deputy president after Gachagua impeachment

Kenya's parliament on Friday unanimously voted to back the nomination of President William Ruto's pick to replace his deputy Rigathi Gachagua who was sacked in a historic impeachment.

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Kenyan cult leader faces terrorism charges over mass starvation deaths

The self-proclaimed leader of an evangelical doomsday cult in Kenya has gone on trial in Mombasa, facing charges of terrorism for allegedly inciting more than 400 of his followers to starve themselves to death.

Radio France Internationale

Kenya Force Leaves Nairobi To Tackle Gang Violence In Haiti

A Kenyan force to lead a UN-backed multinational mission to tackle gang violence in Haiti departed Nairobi late Monday, interior minister Kithure Kindiki said, despite a court case against the deployment.

International Business Times

Cyclone Bears Down On Flood-hit Kenya, Tanzania

Beaches were deserted and many shops closed on Saturday as heavy rains and winds from a tropical cyclone buffeted coastal areas of Tanzania and Kenya.

International Business Times

Kenya declares surprise public holiday to plant trees

The country has set an ambitious target of planting 15 billion trees by 2032 and says 13 November will see everyone ‘pulling together to fight back the climate crisis’

The Independent UK

More than 300 including lawmaker arrested after Kenya protests

Police blasted for heavy-handed response to deadly protests but authorities say ‘acts of lawlessness’ won’t be accepted.

Al Jazeera

Kenya delays reopening border with Somalia: All the details

Kenya postpones reopening the border amid turbulent ties and al-Shabab attacks.

Al Jazeera

More bodies found in search for Kenyan forest death cult followers

Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a "highly organised crime".

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What we know about the Kenyan starvation cult and the pastors allegedly behind the deaths

The bodies of more than 100 people have been found in the Shakahola forest since police began searching the area in east Kenya.

The New Daily

Autopsies begin on more than 100 bodies of Kenyan cult members

Pathologists have started autopsies on bodies linked to a Kenyan religious cult whose leader allegedly instructed them to starve.

Reuters

Initial autopsies show children starved, asphyxiated in Kenyan cult

The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult.

Reuters

Children account for majority of Kenyan cult deaths - interior minister

Children account for most of the 109 bodies so far recovered in mass graves linked to a cult in Kenya, the interior minister said on Friday, the latest details in a case that has shocked the country and prompted calls for tighter regulation of religious fringe groups.

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Another Kenyan pastor arrested over 'mass killings' as death toll passes 100 in Christian cult

A Kenyan televangelist is arrested after reports of the "mass killing of his followers", the interior minister says, as authorities investigate scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region.

Reuters

Second Kenyan pastor arrested over alleged 'mass killings', says minister

The head of a church in eastern Kenya has been arrested in relation to "mass killings" and 100 of his followers have been evacuated from church premises, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Thursday.

AFP

Kenyans fear for relatives linked to cult as search for bodies resumes

Malindi (Kenya) (AFP) - Weeping relatives on Wednesday awaited news of loved ones linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya as police resumed the search for victims after unearthing dozens of bodies since last week.

AFP

'Abusing scripture': The rise of Kenya's Christian cults

Nairobi (AFP) - "Jesus told me that the work he gave me had come to an end," said Kenyan self-styled pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, explaining his 2019 decision to close the Good News International Church.

The Independent UK

Kenya cult deaths hits 90 as authorities expand operation

The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90

AFP

Kenya starvation cult 'massacre' toll hits 90 as search paused

SHAKAHOLA (Kenya) (AFP) - The death toll from a suspected Kenyan starvation cult climbed to 90 on Tuesday, including many children, as police said investigators were pausing the search for bodies because the morgues were full.

The New Daily

Starvation cult death toll in eastern Kenya rises to 89

The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has now risen to 89.

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