EDITORIAL: Witchcraft: Go beyond ban

>Yesterday, we reported that Chimedeli villagers in Bahi District, Dodoma Region, have vowed not to stop consulting witchdoctors, for they have been seeing them for a long time and their problems had been solved.

At a media briefing at a hospital in Arusha, he said the sudden change of weather during the flight led him to believe that dark forces had been at work against him.

>A report released by a global organisation The Pew Research Centre April 15, 2010 named Tanzanians as the most superstitious in Africa.

>It is easy to dismiss smokers as people who should simply be ignored since they are self-destructive, but the matter is not as simple as that. The health of a non-smoker seated next to a person who is smoking is endangered too.

International Business Times UK
Albinism in Tanzania: Witchcraft-fuelled persecution leads to mutilation and murder
International Business Times UK
Limi Luchoma, a 30-year-old mother-of-four with albinism, is a recent survivor of a brutal attack. In May, she was asleep in the home she shared with her father and her children in a village in the western Katavi Region when two men broke in. Locking the door ...
World albinism awareness day to be observed in Kikwetespyghana.com

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Telegraph.co.uk
Witchcraft suspects burned in Tanzania
SBS
Police in Tanzania have arrested 23 people after seven people accused of witchcraft were burned alive in a village. Source: AAP. 11 Oct 2014 - 1:22 AM UPDATED 1 MIN AGO. Tweet. 0. Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in Tanzania ...
7 witchcraft suspects burned to death in TanzaniaSabahi Online
Tanzania arrests 23 over killing of seven 'witches'BBC News
Seven witchcraft suspects burned to death in TanzaniaPakistan...

If witchery ‘services’ that Tanzania witchdoctors purport to export to cities across East Africa would be added to the balance of trade, I’m sure we would not be doing too badly economically.

Sumbawanga man killed over witchcraft
Daily News
A MPONDA villager, Sekule Mpupo (85), was beaten to death by a mob in Sumbawanga Municipality after being accused of practicing witchcraft. The Rukwa Police Commander, Jacob Mwaruanda, confirmed the death which occurred in the village on ...

NEWS.com.au
Was albino baby stolen for witchcraft?
NEWS.com.au
AN ALBINO toddler has been kidnapped in northern Tanzania raising fears he may be killed and his body parts used for witchcraft. Unknown attackers broke into the house and slashed the child's mother with machetes before snatching the ...
Tanzanian albino toddler seized in feared witchcraft attackDaily Mail

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