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The leader of a Kenyan cult group and six others have been rearrested minutes after a court in Malindi released them. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie is accused of encouraging dozens of followers to starve themselves to death. He denies any wrongdoing.

NewsdayTagreed Abdin thinks about leaving Sudan every day, but for now in her corner of the capital, people are trying to"return to normalcy" in small ways.

The neighbourhood is"relatively quiet", Ms Abdin tells the BBC, between periods of very heavy shelling, military planes flying overhead and anti-aircraft missiles being fired.

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