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DRC: Witchcraft claims against children in Congo DRC reflect curse of poverty

Sorcery charges are increasingly being used by poverty-stricken Congolese families as an excuse to abandon their children. Full story here

Uganda: Child body parts sold at sh0.5m, says report

He was a boda boda rider, and not earning much. Because he wanted to make more money, he resorted to kidnapping people, including children. Full story here

Uganda: 20,000 sign petition for tougher laws on child sacrifice

Over 20,000 people have signed a petition that seeks to compel Parliament to enact tougher laws, provided for life imprisonment against culprits of child sacrifice. More here

Cameroon: City panicked by wave of suspected ritual killings

Michele Mbala Mvogo, a 17-year-old high school student, left home to go to school one morning, and she never came back.  On Friday, police found Michele’s corpse with four other bodies dumped outside a kindergarten school. Fighting back tears, Deborah Ngoh Tonye described what was left of her sister’s gruesome corpse. Someone had removed Michele’s genitals, tongue, eyes, hair, and breasts. Full story here.

Nigeria: Revealed: Money Making Rituals And Superstition In Nigeria

Early this month, the police in Kogi State arrested a 46 year old man who murdered his 4-month old son for ritual purposes. Full story here 

Zimbabwe: Bomb or Juju in Zengeza explosion?

The cause of the mysterious explosion that rocked a Chitungwiza home yesterday and claimed five lives is yet to be established, with several theories being put forward to explain the phenomenon. More here 

Nigeria: Man, 50, Convicted For Witchcraft

The Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Monday convicted one Auta Yako, 50, of Kugbo Market, for being a wizard and inciting public disturbance. Read more here 

India: Many cases of women branded as witches still go unreported

NEW DELHI: The attack was well-organised. A band of 20 stormed into Kamla Meena’s house and dragged her out by the hair to the marketplace of Manpura village in Rajasthan’s Tonk district. She was stripped, beaten with wooden clubs and axes, and had sticks and red chilli powder pushed up her vagina. Unable to bear the force of the beatings, she collapsed and fainted, and was left for dead by the villagers. What had she done to antagonise them so? The villagers claimed she was a witch and had brought ill fortune on the family and others. Full story here 

South Africa: Realising they are firing blanks, players resort to witchcraft

South Africa’s sangomas (witchdoctors) are in for roaring business after the goalless opening day of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Full story here 

Malawi: MP stuns KU children on witchcraft

A Member of Parliament from Kasungu on Wednesday stunned a children’s forum in the district when he turned down the children’s call for legislators to revisit the Witchcraft Act. Full story here

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