Dementia is an "escalating challenge" in Africa, according to a study published ... Accusing someone of witchcraft is illegal in the country, punishable by up to two years in prison, but the ...

Two suspected witch doctors appeared Tuesday in a Zambian court on charges they attempted to "bewitch" President Hakainde ...

A treatise by Nelson Tebbe entitled, Witchcraft and Statecraft: Liberal Democracy in Africa identifies demands for greater legal accommodation of African traditions in South Africa as direct ...

Apartheid’s Stratcom saw US Trump ally Edwin Feulner as an advisor. Can traditional healers be arrested for witchcraft claims? Plus, how unchecked leaks worsen Johannesburg’s water crisis.

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Existing knowledge says that 39;witch camps 39;, places where 39;witches 39; live and operate exist in Ghana .

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has directed Tanzania to revise its witchcraft laws to clearly distinguish between traditional healers and witch doctors.

However, those accused of witchcraft can also be "beaten to death" or they may be "stoned or beheaded, as has been reported in Indonesia and sub-Saharan Africa." In many communities, it is ...

From summer to autumn in sub-Saharan Africa, green fields of rice ... These eye-catching flowers are known as ‘witch weeds,’ as they survive and spread by parasitizing the roots of other ...

It tells the story of an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of being a witch. It will be a highlight of the fifth Wales Africa Film Festival, with screenings in Bangor and Cardiff. Ghana's camps ...