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TOM ODULA

TOM ODULA

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Kenya doomsday cult pastor and others will face charges of murder, cruelty and more

Kenya’s director of public prosecutions has ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty and child torture, among other crimes, over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the church

Kenya doomsday cult pastor and others will face charges of murder, cruelty and more
Africa|Education|Environment|Health|Science|Videos|World

A rhinoceros is pregnant from embryo transfer in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said could be used to try to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies

A rhinoceros is pregnant from embryo transfer in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies
Africa|Americas|Crime|News|World

Kenya's high court rules that deploying nation's police officers to Haiti is unconstitutional

Kenya’s high court has blocked the U.N.-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control

Kenya's high court rules that deploying nation's police officers to Haiti is unconstitutional
Africa|Crime|News

Thousands march against femicide in Kenya following the January slayings of at least 14 women

Thousands of people have marched in cities and towns in Kenya to protest the recent slayings of more than a dozen women

Thousands march against femicide in Kenya following the January slayings of at least 14 women
Africa|News

Gas explosions in Kenya's capital send smoke rising over homes and injure 29

Authorities say gas explosions at an industrial building in Kenya’s capital sent a plume of fiery smoke rising over homes and injured at least 29 people

Gas explosions in Kenya's capital send smoke rising over homes and injure 29
Africa|Crime|News

Kenya's president blames corruption and incompetence for fire tragedy and wants officials prosecuted

Kenyan President William Ruto says corruption and incompetence among officials allowed the operation of an illegal liquid petroleum plant in a residential area

Kenya's president blames corruption and incompetence for fire tragedy and wants officials prosecuted
Africa|Health|News|World

About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says

Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday

About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says
Africa|Crime|Education|News

Hyenas kill 1 person and injure 2 near Kenyan university, where students say they don't feel safe

Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security

Hyenas kill 1 person and injure 2 near Kenyan university, where students say they don't feel safe
Africa|Crime|News|World

A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Massachusetts escapes from police custody in Kenya

Police in Kenya say a murder suspect who was awaiting extradition to the United States has escaped from police custody

A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Massachusetts escapes from police custody in Kenya
Africa|News|Sports|World

Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car crash in Kenya, fellow athlete says

A fellow athlete says marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car crash in Kenya

Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car crash in Kenya, fellow athlete says
News|Sports|World

Kelvin Kiptum’s family says marathon record holder's death shattered their hopes and dreams

Kelvin Kiptum’s family says their dreams and future hopes have been shattered by the death of the marathon record holder in a car crash on Sunday

Kelvin Kiptum’s family says marathon record holder's death shattered their hopes and dreams
Africa|Environment

Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out

Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades

Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out
Africa|News|Sports

Kenya mourns as marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum is given a state funeral

Kenya's world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum has been given a state funeral as many urged the government to do more to protect the country’s famous athletes

Kenya mourns as marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum is given a state funeral
Africa|Opinion

Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge

Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili

Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge
Africa|Health

Kenyan doctors strike nationwide. Patients left unattended or turned away at public hospitals

Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care

Africa|News|World

Poor Kenyans feel devastated by floods and brutalized by the government's response

Winnie Makinda says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government’s response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital of Nairobi

Poor Kenyans feel devastated by floods and brutalized by the government's response

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