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Shallow graves: More than 100 bodies have been exhumed at Shakahola and autopsies on 40 of the bodies found that the causes of death were starvation, strangulation and suffocation. Photo: Yauyoshi Chiba/AFP
CULT

People tried to stop deadly Kenya cult led by Pastor Mackenzie

The leader of the starvation cult, which killed at least 90 people, was repeatedly arrested — and repeatedly released

  • Rael Ombuor
3 min read
Edwin Chiloba’s relatives mourn his death in Sergoit village. Photo: Simon Maina/AFP
EDWIN CHILOBA

Edwin Chiloba: Gay, proud, murdered

The body of the Kenyan fashion designer and gay rights activist was found stuffed in a box on the roadside. He had been suffocated to death

  • Rael Ombuor
6 min read
Illustration: Inge Snip
CONVERSION THERAPY

East Africa’s ‘lucrative’ conversion therapy industry

A six-month investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Rael Ombuor
  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
10 min read