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Over 100 Mungiki sect members held for extortion

Religion News Blog — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:57:19 +0000

Kenyan police has detained 120 suspected members of a sect accused of extorting money from Nairobi’s minibus drivers. Kenyan media reports say authorities were ordered to crack down on members of the Mungiki and prevent demonstrations against the police.

The suspects belong to a sect called the Mungiki, that blends Christian doctrines and traditional African practices. It has been blamed for macabre killings, abductions, and extortion and also controls several Muntatu lines in Nairobi.

Mungiki sect leader is shot dead

Religion News Blog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:42:35 +0000

It comes less than a fortnight after the wife of the sect's jailed leader was found beheaded, sparking riots in Nairobi and surrounding areas.

Twelve die in Kenya violence after wife of gang boss is killed

Religion News Blog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:43:48 +0000

Armed members of Kenya's Mungiki gang, angry at the beheading of their political leader's wife, fought paramilitary police on the streets of Nairobi yesterday. Up to 12 people were believed to have been killed.

200 sect members held in Kenya

Religion News Blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:36:02 +0000

Nairobi - Some 200 members of a banned sect linked to murders and beheadings, as well as killings during recent post-election violence, were arrested in the Kenyan capital over the past three days, police said on Thursday.

Kenya: infamous Mungiki sect gears up for reprisal killings

Religion News Blog — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:04:01 +0000

They gave warning to the unwelcome neighbors to leave. Then they came – dozens of young men with machetes – and hacked away at any members of the Luo tribe that they could find.

Kenya: Outlawed gangs re-emerge in city slums to offer protection

Religion News Blog — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:44:02 +0000

After the eruption of post-electoral violence, members of some communities have embraced the outlawed gangs to provide security in their territories.

Kenya government accused of using murderous sect

Religion News Blog — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:40:33 +0000

Head of the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Maina Kiai, said that members of the banned Mungiki, a shadowy gang mainly from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, were sought out for protection.

8,040 young Kenyans executed during police crackdown on outlawed sect: report

Religion News Blog — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:18:07 +0000

As many as 8,040 young Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 during a five-year police crackdown on Mungiki, an outlawed sect.

Over 450 Kenyans died in execution-style killings in 5 months, says rights group

Religion News Blog — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:59:46 +0000

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights linked the slayings to a war between police and Mungiki - a violent, quasi-political, street gang accused of a string of beheadings and fatal shootings earlier this year.

Mungiki sect members held for murders

Religion News Blog — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:33:52 +0000

Kenyan police arrested eight members of a banned sect, blamed for a string of murders and beheadings, while taking an illegal oath in the capital, said an official on Wednesday.