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Reintegrating Ghana’s “witches”
Ghana’s government is looking at ways to support people accused of witchcraft – mainly women and children banished by their communities to “witches’ camps” in the north – and to reintegrate them in their home villages.
20 Alleged Witches Killed in Mozambique Since January
Some 20 elderly people were this year murdered in Mozambique as a result of their alleged involvement in witchcraft, Prime Minister Aires Aly said on Wednesday in Maputo when addressing a Third Age Forum which urged the government to speed up the adoption...
Care2 Campaign Looking for Strong Measures to Deal with the Proliferation of Witch Camps in Northern Ghana
A civil society group based in the United States has joined the campaign to rid Ghana of so-called witches camps where women believed to be witches are maltreated.
Suspected Witches Jailed in Malawi
At least 45 people are behind bars in Malawi on charges of witchcraft, although there is nothing in the country’s laws to keep them there. “The beliefs of the police and courts are becoming the law,” George Thindwa, director of the Association...
Nigeria Government Formally Condemns Child Witch Syndrome
After many years of child abuse in the Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom states in southern Nigeria, the government has formally condemned the practice of child witches and wizards and the stigmatization it had brought to innocent children. According to the...
Nigerian Women’s Group Backs Campaign Against Child Witchcraft Syndrome
The campaign against child witchcraft syndrome in oil-rich Akwa Ibom State of south-west Nigeria received a boost on Wednesday when the women’s wing of Oron Union, an elitist socio-cultural organization finally distanced itself from the syndrome and...
Child Rights And Rehabilitation Network Alarmed By Increase in Nigerian Child Witchcraft
Worried by the high incidence of child witchcraft syndrome in the Oron area of Akwa Ibom State of southern Nigeria, the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), an NGO, has said the practice had assumed alarming proportions, causing a rise in...
Brazilian Missionaries Arrive in Nigeria to Help Stop Child Witchcraft Stigma
A team of missionaries from Brazil have arrived in Eket, Akwa Ibom State in south Nigeria to press for the enforcement of the rights of children stigmatized because of the child witchcraft syndrome. The group, Way to the Nations, criticized the practice...
