Nasty scenes erupted at the Supreme Court in Accra on Thursday morning when two top officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), nearly traded punches over voodoo known in local parlance as ‘juju’. Read more here.
JAIPUR: With the Union government planning to introduce a bill similar to the Rajasthan Women (Prevention of Atrocities) Bill, the state government is now in a fix and is looking for alternative ways to include crimes like branding women as ‘witch’ etc. in some other law. Read more here.
A PAPUA New Guinean who accused his aunt of sorcery and killed her with an axe has been jailed for 30 years, days after the United Nations urged a tougher stance on such murders. Read more here.
Two Malawian men will the next eight years languish in jail after a court convicted them for hacking their 67-year-old grandmother’s left leg. Read more here.
LIBREVILLE — The discovery of a young girl’s body on a Libreville beach last month shocked the city and reignited the debate over ritual killings in Gabon, sparking outrage on social media sites and forcing President Ali Bongo Ondimba to react. Read more here.
RAIPUR: A 12-old boy of Bhatapara, Khonkhli village was admitted to Ambedkar hospital late on Friday in a critical condition while his parents said that he has escaped death after being victimised to superstition. Read more here.
A woman suspected by her neighbors to be a witch was stabbed and killed in a remote village of Zamboanga del Sur, the police reported Saturday. Read more here.
Three houses in Umutu, Kwale axis of Delta State were allegedly razed while three persons were feared killed and others injured over alleged witchcraft crisis that erupted on Thursday night in the area. Read more here.
A 29-year-old pharmacist has been arrested on charges of man slaughter after causing a man to drown while exorcising a jinn from his body. The incident took place on Wednesday at 7pm when the pharmacist, the victim, and two other compatriots went to the beach as per the request of the victim to cleanse his body. Read more here.
A village witch doctor has been arrested for robbing, raping and killing a Plutaluang woman looking for a spell to enchant her estranged husband. Read more here.
