ROURKELA: Three persons were arrested bySundargarh police on Tuesday on charges of assaulting and parading naked three persons, including two women, suspecting them to bepractising witchcraft in Ambapada village underTalsara police limits. Read full story here
BENIN CITY, Nigeria — At 20, Amaka Chinye was already saddled with responsibility. Both of her parents had died. Having finished high school, she opened a small boutique in a run-down shopping center to support her younger brothers. Strong and energetic, Chinye struggled to feed her small family. Read more here
Animal sacrifices, black magic, hypnotic dances and strange talismans are the kind of images most people associate with Voodoo. For years, popular culture has portrayed the religion as dark, mysterious, primitive and creepy. Yet Voodoo is derived from the oldest spiritual traditions in the world and dates back at least 10,000 years.
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Mbeya. The Village of Kalungu is dead still, almost everyone is mourning. It’s a quiet, eerie scene, marked by one slight anomaly. Most of the people out here are women and girls. By and large they keep to themselves, clearly not feeling they can freely talk to strangers. All the boys and men, this reporter learns, are in hiding. A few come home to roost under the cover of darkness. Read more here
A man charged with pretending to practise witchcraft had all charges against him dropped Friday after he agreed to pay full restitution — $23,000 in total — to two victims. More here
The governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio has declared the state free of witch-kids, following efforts by his government to contain the menace which, according to him, was merely trumped up by some fake churches in the state. More here
REPORTS of a woman burned alive by vigilantes amid accusations of sorcery in Papua New Guinea have been condemned by the United Nations. Read full story here
THE mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a 36-year-old woman, Kafilat Lateef, has been unravelled by the Oyo State police command, as five suspects have been arrested for allegedly killing her for ritual purpose. Read story here
A torso found in the Thames, which detectives believe belongs to an African boy murdered in a ritual sacrifice, has reportedly been identified by a key witness. More here
A young mother was tossed screaming on to a pyre of tyres and burned alive after being accused of killing a neighbour’s six-year-old son with sorcery. Read full story here
