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Nigeria: Man, 50, Convicted For Witchcraft

The Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Monday convicted one Auta Yako, 50, of Kugbo Market, for being a wizard and inciting public disturbance. Read more here 

India: Many cases of women branded as witches still go unreported

NEW DELHI: The attack was well-organised. A band of 20 stormed into Kamla Meena’s house and dragged her out by the hair to the marketplace of Manpura village in Rajasthan’s Tonk district. She was stripped, beaten with wooden clubs and axes, and had sticks and red chilli powder pushed up her vagina. Unable to bear the force of the beatings, she collapsed and fainted, and was left for dead by the villagers. What had she done to antagonise them so? The villagers claimed she was a witch and had brought ill fortune on the family and others. Full story here 

South Africa: Realising they are firing blanks, players resort to witchcraft

South Africa’s sangomas (witchdoctors) are in for roaring business after the goalless opening day of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Full story here 

Malawi: MP stuns KU children on witchcraft

A Member of Parliament from Kasungu on Wednesday stunned a children’s forum in the district when he turned down the children’s call for legislators to revisit the Witchcraft Act. Full story here

Benin: Student by day,Voodoo priest by night

Voodoo remains an integral part of African culture. Although the traditional religion has its critics, it also has fervent followers in Benin – some of whom are as young as they are devoted. More here

Ghana: ‘Child Witches’ in Ghana

The west African nation of Ghana is rather widely known for its ‘witch camps’, where mainly old women who are accused of occult crimes and subsequently banished from their communities. They seek refuge in these ‘camps’ to avoid being killed by their family and community members. But in the village of Sang, off Tamale-Yendi Road, in the northern region of Ghana there is a care center for vulnerable children. Full story here 

Malawi: Malawi frees all witches from jail

Liviness Elifala and her friend Margaret Jackson, of Lodzanyama Village, Traditional Authority Ntema in Lilongwe, have not been home for the last three years. The two have been in prison and returned home three weeks ago following the latest presidential prisoner parole. Read more here 

Zimbabwe: Chavunduka would have punished all “witches” in Zimbabwe

Professor Gordon Chavunduka, the late president of the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association, who was laid to rest at his farm Wednesday, in his lifetime fought hard to get the Witchcraft Suppression Act amended. Read full story here

Fiji: Youths questioned for alleged witchcraft

Two youths are in Police custody for their alleged involvement in witchcraft. More here 

India: Woman Branded as Witch Beaten to Death

A 55-year-old tribal woman was beaten to death by her in-laws after they branded her a witch in Rajasthan’s Banswara district. More here

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