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Saudi Arabia: Witchcraft case: Jail sentence cut to 3 months

A housemaid who was sentenced to five years in jail and deportation for using witchcraft against her Emirati employer’s family, has had her sentence reduced to three months. Read more here

PNG repeals sorcery law and expands death penalty

Papua New Guinea has repealed its controversial Sorcery Act but has expanded its use of the death penalty. Under legislation passed in parliament on Tuesday, killings linked to allegations of witchcraft will now be treated as murder. Read more here

India: Human sacrifice: Family in Maharashtra kills girl before a goddess, drinks her blood, 8 held

On May 20, the bones, skull and blood-stained clothes of a girl were found from a bush in Choramba tehsil. Read more here

Swaziland: Swazi albinos fear muti killings before elections

Mbabane – Swaziland’s albinos have called on the government for protection before elections expected later this year, fearing their body parts will be harvested by candidates seeking good luck. Read more here

South Africa: Butchered for muti while still alive

NELSPRUIT – A murder trial began in court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown. Read more here

Tanzania: 150 homes built for witchcraft victims

Mwanza. Magu-based civic organisation, ‘Maperece’, has constructed 150 housing units for the elderly discriminated by communities for allegedly taking part in notorious witchcraft practices. Read more here 

Nepal: Mother, daughter thrashed on witchcraft charge

Police on Friday said that locals thrashed a mother and her daughter, who is in her late twenties, on the charge of practising witchcraft in Makwanpur district.  Read more here 

UK: Breaking The Silence On Child Witches

STORIES OF child witches and brutal exorcisms underpinned by self-styled men and women of God who promise deliverance – for a small fee, of course – have been luridly reported in the British media.

It has provoked anger and shame among African communities who feel that the publicity on the phenomenon is an unspoken accusation of how ‘backwards’ the so-called ‘Dark Continent’ is. Read more here

Zimbabwe: Woman confesses to practising witchcraft and owning 10 goblins

A Gokwe woman, 67, has confessed to practising witchcraft as well as possessing 10 goblins that are terrorising fellow villagers. Read more here

South Africa: Farmer’s wife bought muti after murder

Bloemfontein – A farmer’s wife who is accused of killing her husband allegedly went to see a sangoma to make the case against her “disappear”. read more here