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Protecting child 'witches' in Africa | Joachim Theis

The persecution of children accused of witchcraft is a reaction to the insecurity of modern Africa. We must protect them Beliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural ...

Cases of children accused of 'witchcraft' rising in parts of West and Central Africa

AKWA IBOM STATE, Nigeria, 28 July 2010 One child is given a slice of mango and is asked to commit murder in return. Another admits to killing 800 people while flying with other witches on a piece of tree bark.

Kenya: Odinga Accused of Insulting Language

PRIME Minister Raila Odinga has been named among the politicians making "unsavoury, derogatory and insulting" remarks during the campaigns before referendum on the proposed constitution on August 4.

DiManno: Cruel life of child witches

Children as young young as 4 and 5 are condemned as wiches and tossed onto the scrapheap of street life to fend for themselves,

Africa: Rising Number of Children Accused of 'Crime of Witchcraft'

Tens of thousands of children, some as young as four years old, are being accused of "crimes" of witchcraft in Africa, according to a new report, which examines the consequences for the societies they live in.