Limited public health services and health education "increase the prevalence of accusations of witchcraft and ritual attacks", according to guidance by the African Union. Conditions such as autism ...

Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of ...

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.

Two “witch doctors” were recently arrested in Zambia for attempting to bewitch the African nation’s president, Hakainde Hichilema. They have been charged under Zambia’s Witchcraft Act with ...

TANZANIA has been advised to revise the country’s witchcraft laws in order to draw a clear line between traditional healers and witch doctors. Lady Justice Stella Isibhakhomen Anukam from Nigeria ...

The film was based on real-life witch camps or villages in countries like Ghana A critically-acclaimed film by a Welsh-Zambian director about an African witch camp is set to be seen by audiences ...

What is science? I put it to Ken Ouko that a lot of what we call witchcraft is largely scientific. African scholars have failed us when it comes to the subject of witchcraft, by taking refuge in ...

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 ...