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Zimbabwe: Accused ‘witch’ commits suicide

Being labelled a “witch” by her only son forced a Chipinge woman (57) to cut her life short on Sunday. It is alleged that Janie Magezi drank a pesticide after being accused of being a “witch” by her son, Worried Magezi.

He accused her of being responsible for all the misfortunes he was facing in his life. He was coming from the beerhall and was drunk.  He started shouting at her accusing her of being a “witch” and that she wanted to kill him.

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Zimbabwe: Ntabazinduna women sneak from all-night prayer to bewitch villagers

The case of five women from Luthu Village, who were found naked in Magodini Village in Sigola area two weeks ago in a suspected foiled witchcraft expedition has taken a new twist. 
This follows reports that the women who are said to be members of one of the largest church denominations in Ntabazinduna (name supplied) sneaked from a church camp during the night to embark on a witchcraft expedition in Sigola. This was after they were allegedly invited by their accomplice from that area to come and exhume the body of her relative which they had buried the previous day.
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Burkina Faso: Branded as witches, cleft lip children now see hope in Africa

Accused of witchcraft or sorcery, children with cleft lips or palates are often driven into hiding in several African countries, forced to live as outcasts unless they receive an early operation.

In the Suka clinic in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, a volunteer recounts the story of one young mother made to flee her village after giving birth to a “cursed child”.

Many parents hide such children — fearing they will be taunted or made into pariahs — due to the lack of available medical care.

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Nepal: Elderly woman assaulted for witchcraft

In a recent case of violence against women, a woman in her fifties was severely beaten up on the charge of practising witchcraft.

Fifty-year-old Chhatiyadevi Sahani of Ekdarwa village in Lakhanpur VDC was thrashed by her own kin and neighbour Nirgun Sahani and his family. They accused her of practising black magic and causing the death of Nirgun Sahani’s three-day-old grandchild. 

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Nepal: Witchcraft and Black Magic still exist in Nepal

Nepal has been rated and ranked  157th out of 187 countries in terms of human development, according to the UNDP’s 2013 Human Development Index Report.

It has reached the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing maternal mortality, but it is also on track to achieve gender equality in education. There is a huge hurdle for women to fight against violence and social injustice, where accusations of witchcraft are rife.

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India: ‘Child Sacrifice in India’

India holds the oldest Advent Christian missionary outpost in world. And as shocking as it may seem, there are ritual child sacrifices being made to gods of rural witch doctors. But one pastor has saved 189 to date and is raising them in an orphanage. Imagine the potential testimony one of those children will have to tell when he grows up. Snatched out of the hands of Satan himself to be raised a follower of Jesus Christ. That’s what you call “walking in the valley of the shadow of death.”

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Nepal: Rights forum calls for anti-witchcraft law

The National Women’s Rights Forum today demanded a separate and stringent anti-witchcraft law to deal with gender-based violence at a time when many women across the country are facing physical and mental torture on the charge of practising witchcraft.

The forum demanded an effective law to punish the perpetrators. Renuka Malla Thakuri, president of the forum, expressed concern about incidents of violence against women taking place across the country. 

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Nigeria: “I told them not to use my juju for evil”, herbalist of car snatchers laments

Perhaps if his gods had availed him of what was in the offing, Mr Emmanuel America (44), a herbalist who specialises in fortifying people against bullet shots, would have declined obliging three armed robbery suspects who came to solicit his services.
Three of his customers, who were armed robbery suspects, were nabbed by a crack team of detectives  from the Area Commander’s office of Delta State Police Command.

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South Africa: Muti murderers get life sentences

A man and a woman found guilty of cutting up a six-year-old girl for muti before killing her were sentenced to life in prison by the Nelspruit Circuit of the Pretoria High Court on Friday.

Stella Sibongile Zulu (25) and Sifiso Wonder Vilakazi (49), from Masibekela near Komatipoort, were convicted of murder and abduction, a Sapa correspondent reported. The court found that they killed Dimakatso Shabangu, who went missing on April 21, 2009. Her body was found floating in a river four days later.

 

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Nigeria: Ritual Killing: Girl, 9, Beheaded

The Tata community near Ijoun in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State, South-west Nigeria, was on Monday thrown into mourning when people suspected to be ritualists beheaded a nine-year old girl, Taiwo Ajibode.

Mr. Sola Ajibode, his wife, Mrs. Abosede Ajibode and their three children, Taiwo, Kehinde and Bukola Ajibode were on a visit to their aged grandmother, Madam Ashande Ase when the incident happened.

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