{"id":205717,"date":"2025-08-28T17:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-link-new-bodies-exhumed-from-kenyan-mass-graves-to-starvation-cult\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:56:35","slug":"kenya-police-link-new-bodies-exhumed-from-kenyan-mass-graves-to-starvation-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-link-new-bodies-exhumed-from-kenyan-mass-graves-to-starvation-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Police Link New Bodies Exhumed From Kenyan Mass Graves to Starvation Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><em> As Kenyan police continue to exhume bodies from a mass grave discovered last week, authorities are linking these new discoveries to a starvation cult uncovered with the discovery of hundreds of bodies in a forest in 2023 &#8211; according to documents exclusively obtained by RFI. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Over the last 10 days, 24 bodies have been exhumed from Kwa Binzaro, a small village near Kenya&#8217;s Indian Ocean coast and not far from the Shakahola forest &#8211; where 450 bodies were found in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">These were followers of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508280612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kenyan police continue to exhume bodies from a mass grave discovered last week, authorities are linking these new discoveries to a starvation cult uncovered with the discovery of hundreds of bodies in a forest in 2023 &#8211; according to documents exclusively obtained by RFI. Over the last 10 days, 24 bodies have been exhumed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530576:f2b4d6fb909484e5f7d83560c8a5bf8e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9428,16051,24907,24966,4688,430,4524,7562,7883,257,662,254,6224],"class_list":["post-205717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodies","tag-cult","tag-exhumed","tag-graves","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-link","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starvation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530576:f2b4d6fb909484e5f7d83560c8a5bf8e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}