HAZARIBAG: Police are still clueless about the brutal killing of the Birhor boy, whose body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon from a forest here. However, one person was arrested on Wednesday. Read more here.
A pastor and a traditional priest who fought in public over ‘juju’ money at Adansi Anwiaso in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti Region have been fined GH¢50 each by the traditional authorities. Read more here.
Mbabane – A wheelchair-bound man in Swaziland has offered his “useless” legs to suspected muti killers in exchange for the lives of three girls who disappeared this week under mysterious circumstances. Read more here.
A businesswoman and the prosecution witness in a criminal trial, Mrs. Abiola Olatunji, has told a Lagos chief magistrate court, sitting at Ebute-Metta, how her 18-year-old maid, Iyanuoluwa Abayomi, confessed to theft through the administration of juju by a traditional thief-catcher known as “Ajilegege”. Read more here.
ZIMBABWE: Villagers in Chikumbakwa area in Macheke were left shell shocked when an 18-year-old woman gave birth to BIRDS in a suspected case of witchcraft. Read more here.
Two African men, on business visas, denied charges of sorcery, witchcraft and fraud when they appeared in the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours. Read more here.
TAWAU: Police arrested a 16-year-old boy who was found with 10 ‘flying feather’ arrows, two bows and a knife in Kampung Titingan (Kampung Ice Box), here, early yesterday. Read more here.
Guwahati, Aug 23 (IANS): Three people were killed by unidentified miscreants in Assam on the suspicion that they practiced witch craft, police said on Thursday. Read more here.
BIRGUNJ: At a time when investigation into the murder of a woman over witchcraft allegations is yet to be completed in Birgunj, another woman from the same district is learnt to have been sent from her village on the same charge. Read more here.
Human rights advocate Gary Foxcroft has been given an Alumni Award at the graduation ceremonies for his work in trying to save child “witches” in Nigeria. Read more here.
