Greetings and salutations from the Advocacy for Alleged Witches and from all advocates against witch hunts in Nigeria and ...

I returned from Yola, Adamawa State, where I attended a roundtable discussion on witchcraft hunts in the 21st century .

Interview: Zambian Sister Vickness Muleya, member of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, leads ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Mzwandile Tiyo felt victimised for not being appointed the Western Cape’s Crime Intelligence boss in a saga involving ...

A group, the Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW), has petitioned Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State over the lynching of an ...

Massachusetts first began issuing pardons to Salem “ witches ” in 1703 and continued to do so until July 2022, when the latest person accused of witchcraft was pardoned. Connecticut has also issued ...

A mob in Oke-Ijeun, a community in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Tuesday lynched an elderly woman. The woman, Ojo ...

“There is no witchcraft here,” he says ... They are not only popular in Nigeria, but across Africa and in the diaspora. Evil School, Family of Witches, School of Witches are but a few of ...

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Tajik police have stepped up raids against what they call "parasites engaged in some of the most detestable activities imaginable -- divination and witchcraft". Other countries in Central Asia are ...