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Kenya: 60 elderly people murdered each month in Kwale and Kilifi

At least 60 elderly people falsely accused of witchcraft are killed a month in Kwale and Kilifi counties, an official has said.

Malindi District Cultural Association chairman Emmanuel Munyaya said 10 alleged witches are buried every week.

“These are only the reported cases. Those people who are killed are many,” he said. Speaking to the Star on Monday at the Madca Centre, Munyaya said they are killed by greedy or spiteful relatives and neighbours.

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Fiji: ‘Don’t Leave Me!’

An only child was still reeling from shock yesterday after her father was taken by a group of men and died from injuries he came home with on Monday night.

Manisha Devi, 16, said she could not believe that her dad and closest friend — Vasu Dewan Naidu — had been removed from her life. The deceased, of Nawaicoba settlement in Nadi, was alleged to have been attacked by men who suspected him of practising witchcraft.

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Zambia: Chinsali man 50 shot dead for suspected witchcraft

Muchinga Province Deputy Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso confirmed the development in an interview with the ZANIS in Chinsali .

Mr. Kapeso identified the deceased as Gleson Siwanzi who was shot   by unknown people on suspicion of practicing witchcraft adding that no suspects have been arrested yet.

Mr Kapeso has since advised people to exercise responsibility and appreciate the elderly in their community.

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Nigeria: Country Where Parents are Killing Their Own Children

If evaluated by the number of innocent children falsely branded as witches and killed by their superstitious parents and relatives, Nigeria is a country that has sunk deep into a spiritual and moral darkness.

Self-styled pastors, prophets and evangelists are perpetuating this darkness through their manipulative deliverance churches and ministries.

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Papua New Guinea: Six killed in PNG sorcery attack

Police in Papua New Guinea have detained 180 people after a witch hunt that left six people dead, including two children.

Several hundred men from Raicoast village in Madang province descended on Sasiko village, looking for people they believed to be sorcerers. Local media reports say the violent rampage went on for most of Monday.

Witnesses say one man killed was an innocent bystander on his way to work, while two children under the age of five were also reportedly killed.

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Fiji: Six Questioned over Nadi man’s death

A 49 year old man accused of practicing witchcraft died at the Lautoka hospital last night after being allegedly assaulted by six men in Nadi.

The six men are being questioned over their involvement in the said attack.

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Zimbabwe: Woman attacks mother-in-law with an axe over ‘witchcraft’

In an incident that left the court gallery shell shocked, an elderly Eskbank farm woman ran amok after attacking her mother- in- law with an axe after accusing her of witchcraft, a court heard on Monday.

The accused, Berita Soveti (55) of Eskbank farm in Harare, stood bewildered in the dock while appearing before Magistrate Tendai Mahwe at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. She faces attempted murder charges. 

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Nigeria: Father Sets 2 year old daughter On fire Over Witchcraft accusation

More than 15,000 children are have so far been branded witches and are believed by parents and community to possess spiritual spell that brings about misfortunes, diseases and death.

A Father has set his 2 year old daughter on fire over a Witchcraft accusation.

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Nigeria: Police dismiss 2 officers for ritual murder

Two of the four police officers arrested for alleged ritual murder of a 26-year-old man in Aba, Mr. Onyekachi Chukwu, have been dismissed by the police authorities.

Chukwu was allegedly murdered by the policemen attached to the Federal Highway patrol unit of the Nigeria Police, Aba section on the pretext that he was an armed robber. His mutilated body was later found in a dump site at Akpa Village in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state.

More than 20 skulls and decomposing bodies were also found at the dump.

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Namibia: Onayena ritual killings remain rumours