Topic: Shakahola

Shakahola: Kin of victims reluctant to collect bodies, seek therapy to reach closure

By Marion Kithi   2024-05-15 23:29:05

The social workers and therapists from the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), the Directorate of Homicide, and Kilifi County hope to convince the families to pick the bodies of their kin for burial.

Mung'aro rescinds decision to move Shakahola bodies

By Nehemiah Okwembah   2024-05-07 18:37:16

Mung'aro had protested that the bodies had overstayed at the county facility.

One year on, Shakahola victims' families struggle with closure

By AFP   2024-04-19 16:18:32

Hundreds of anguished people have descended on Malindi since Mackenzie's arrest, desperate to know the fate of their loved ones. Many are still waiting.

Untold story of journalists, activists struggling with Shakahola trauma

By Marion Kithi   2024-04-15 00:30:11

Journalists who covered the Shakahola massacre suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

First four victims of Shakahola tragedy buried in one grave

By Marion Kithi   2024-04-06 04:30:36

Fate followed four relatives whose bodies were retrieved in embrace from a shallow mass grave inside the Shakahola forest when they were buried together yesterday in a single grave.

Family closes painful chapter after Shakahola victim is buried

By Marion Kithi   2024-03-30 09:26:47

So far, the bodies of 34 people have been identified through DNA testing. Only nine bodies have been released to their families.