The Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has said that despite government efforts to strengthen national security, brutal killings of women increased during the first quarter of this year.
Citing examples, Pinda said between January and last month, eight women were murdered in Mugango, Etaro, Nyakatende and Nyegina wards in Butiama District, Mara Region. At least 19 people died in such killings in Mara region.
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A case of three men who allegedly killed four people for suspected ritual purposes in Gwanda is set to continue…
Mncedisi Ndlovu (18), Nhlanhla Sibanda (23) and Bhekimpilo Mthethwa (41) are facing four counts of murder. They allegedly killed four people and cut off their breasts and private parts for suspected ritual purposes in Stanmore.
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Truthloader explores how the belief in witchcraft leads to violence, harvesting of body parts and some of the most vulnerable people in society being ostracised from their communities.
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Tanzanian police have arrested two alleged witch doctors after an albino woman was hacked to death for body parts, a rights group says.
Munghu Lugata, 40, was killed after attackers hacked off her left leg above the knee and chopped off three fingers on Monday, Under The Same Sun, a group that campaigns for the rights of albinos, said on Wednesday.
Charles Mkumbo, police chief of the Simiyu region in northwestern Tanzania, said a man and a woman, Gudawa Yalema and Shiwa Masalu, had been arrested.
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In northern Ghana hundreds of women accused of witchcraft by relatives or members of their community are living in ‘witch camps’ after fleeing or being banished from their homes.
In 2011 the Ghanaian government announced that the witch camps should be closed down as soon as 2012. ActionAid is firmly against the closure of the camps in such as short space of time, because although they can be seen as ghettos, the camps do provide a safe haven for women accused of witchcraft. The women themselves say they would prefer to stay in the camps rather than face discrimination or risk violence or death back home.
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Dooyum Moar, a 13-year-old junior secondary student of Government Secondary School Gboko, Benue State, on Tuesday miraculously escaped being beheaded by a ritualist.
Ephraim Maor, the father to one of the girls, said the JSS 2 student was kidnapped by a commercial vehicle operator in Makurdi, adding that on Monday morning, he took his son to the Wurukum motor park in Makurdi, where he boarded a vehicle to Gboko to resume school.
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Two witch doctors in Tanzania have been arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked to death, police say.
One of her legs and several fingers were removed in the attack on Tuesday.
Albinos have suffered widespread persecution in Tanzania, where witch doctors say magic potions made with albino body parts can bring good luck.
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Hello, my name is Noellia*, I am 12 years old and I currently live in the ORPER** centre in Kinshasa.
A few days ago, I completed the training on the Rights of the Child and I understood that my right to protection had been violated according to Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. I want to tell you my story because I believe that some children are in very dangerous situations and risk dying if we do not take action.
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A 37-year-old woman, Bose Oluwole, was on Wednesday remanded in prison custody by an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly setting her nine- year-old daughter ablaze.
The accused, who attends a ‘white garment’ church, had just returned home from a night vigil on the morning of the assault. In her statement to the police, claimed she received a revelation during the vigil that her daughter was possessed by demonic spirits.
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Witchdoctors in Kilifi county will be licensed, deputy speaker Teddy Mwambire has said. He said witchdoctors will be vetted and only genuine ones will be given a licence.
Speaking in Malindi on Monday, Mwambire said the licensing will end the killings of many elderly people who are mistaken to be practising witchcraft.
He said “We are drafting a Witchcraft Bill. We have come up with measures that will curb the killing of innocent witchdoctors or elderly people.”
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