Jaipur, April 19 (IANS) A self-proclaimed witch doctor was arrested in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district Friday for allegedly repeatedly raping a woman over six months on the pretext of exorcising an evil spirit that he claimed possessed her, police said. Read more here.
Dhegani Mahato, a 40-year-old mother of two, was burned alive in Nepal after being declared a witch. The attack occurred Friday in Bagauda, 50 miles south of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. According to police, Mahato was attacked by family members and other residents after a shaman accused her of casting a spell to make a relative sick. Read more here.
RAIPUR: In the wake of rise in unfair practises due to superstition and horror, a social activist, actively working against supernatural beliefs and witchcraft, has written to chief minister Raman Singh calling for a ban on films and serials based on superstition in the state. Read more here.
Johannesburg – Injuries suffered by a teenage girl who died after being set alight in an apparent satanic ritual were enough to kill her, a pathologist testified on Thursday. Read more here.
Rumbidzai Mayere (34) who was a well known Zimbabwean vendor in Makhado disappeared on March 16. Her body was discovered dumped in a bushy area and her arm and private parts had been cut off and both her eyes had been removed, apparently while she was still alive. Her boyfriend, Freddy Azwitamisi Tshikhudo (38) was arrested. Read more here.
Recent media reports have indicated that Ugandan children are at risk of being sacrificed by witch doctors, with the freshest case being in Gulu where two children survived being slaughtered by perpetrators of witch craft. John Tugume interviewed Kole County MP Fred Ebil (UPC), who is also a member of the Human rights committee of Parliament, on how the vice can be done away with. Read the interview here.
POLICE in Lusaka have managed to trace the body of the Taxi driver who went missing in Prechem-Kabangwe area. Read more here.
RAIPUR, India — An Indian “witch doctor” who beheaded an 11-year-old boy and offered the head as a sacrifice to a goddess to improve his fortunes has been sentenced to death, police said Tuesday. Read more here.
RUNDU – The dismembered corpse believed to belong to a 32-year-old missing villager was fished from the Kavango River yesterday. Read more here.
GWERU – A group of self-styled traditional healers, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have invaded Chief Chiwundura’s area where they are allegedly exposing “witches” and “treating” the sick for a fee. Read more here.
