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Tanzania has agreed to let Sudanese football club Al Hilal compete in their premier league, while war continues to rage in Sudan. The Kenyan government say they will release several bodies belonging to victims of the Shakahola starvation cult next week.
Al Hilal will compete in the Tanzania Mainland Premier League starting in August, under special conditions. At least 34 bodies have been identified and linked to their families out of the hundreds that were exhumed last year.
The Sudanese club will not be able to win the league and their matches will only count as friendlies, according to AFP news agency. The bodies of 429 people, including children, were dug up from graves in Shakahola, a remote forest outside of the coastal town Malindi. Most showed signs of starvation and assault.
Tanzanian Football Federation spokesman Clifford Mario Ndimbo told local media Al Hilal's participation would benefit the country's league. Survivors and victims' families said self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie encouraged members of his Good News International Church to move there and prepare for the end of the world.
"They are a big club with an excellent reputation and their presence will generate excitement," he said. Survivors say he instructed them to fast so that they could "get to heaven".
He added that Sudanese referees who are in Tanzania will also get an opportunity to officiate matches. The government will counsel victims' families but will not assist them to transport the bodies for burial said Chief Government Pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor on Wednesday.
"It's an opportunity for the Tanzanian clubs to learn from one of the continent's football giants and promote the local league," Mr Ndimbo told AFP. Mr Mackenzie has denied responsibility for the deaths, but he and several of his followers are currently on trial for several charges, including terrorism, murder and torture.
Al Hilal requested to take part in the league as sport is suspended in Sudan because of the conflict which has killed thousands and displaced millions since April 2023. New exhumations are scheduled to be done in one to two weeks, Dr Oduor said, adding that 35 more grave sites have been identified.
More on the war in Sudan: The planned fresh exhumations could drive up the death toll further.
Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes Dr Oduor said the linking of bodies to their families has been slow because "people are not coming up to claim their loved ones".
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