Eric Ngone | Egerton U. Faculty of Law, KE, Author at JURIST

A street in Malindi, Kenya, the coastal town nearest to the Shakahola forest, site of the massacre. Ruslik0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Kenya dispatch: court finds Shakahola massacre cult leader guilty in the deaths of more than 190 children

Eric Ngone | Egerton U. Faculty of Law, KE

October 21, 2026 02:38:07 pm

Eric Ngone is a member of the JURIST News staff and an occasional contributor based in Kenya. He is a fourth-year law student at Egerton School of Law. Kenya’s Mombasa Law Court has found controversial religious leader Paul Mackenzie guilty in a case involving the deaths of more than 190 children linked to the Shakahola [...]

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