Oba Ewuare II, the traditional ruler of the Kingdom of Benin in Edo State in southern Nigeria, has ordered the revoking of all “curses placed on victims of human trafficking and to curse human traffickers instead” in order to “protect vulnerable migrants” seeking to invade Europe. News of the “curse lifting” was carried in the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) report of... 

A Massachusetts woman used a kitchen knife to stab two of her children to death and later told police it was part of a Voodoo ritual, authorities said Tuesday. Latarsha Sanders, 43, told police she attacked her 8-year-old son, Edson “Marlon” Brito, with a kitchen knife as part of a ritual but failed, so she attacked her 5-year-old son, Lason Brito, assistant Plymouth District Attorney... 

Local residents who suspected the man of using dark magic were beating him until he fell unconscious. Police in the Nigerian state of Rivers have started an investigation into a mob attack against a 36-year-old man, according to the Daily Post. The incident took place in the Rukpoku community in the Obio-Akpor government area. The crowd attacked the man over the supposed use of witchcraft on a human... 

An Albino boy is pictured with black pupils in a school. The seven-year-old Tanzanian boy was attacked as he walked home with four school friends and his arm was hacked off. Attackers collecting body parts of albinos for witchcraft hacked off the hand of a seven-year-old boy, officials said today. The boy was walking home with his friends in Tanzania when he was seized by the men. It is the latest... 

Four suspects involved in a suspected satanic ritual, in which two girls were badly burnt, are led away by police officers after they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court. Kirsty Theologo An 18-year-old South African woman was in a coma Monday after being doused in petrol and burned alive by friends in a Johannesburg park, in what police suspect was a satanic ritual. According to the... 

Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh Up to 1,000 Gambian villagers were abducted by “witch doctors” and forced to drink hallucinogens, an international rights group said on Wednesday. Amnesty International called on the government of President Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup and has claimed he can cure Aids, to halt the campaign and bring those responsible to justice. Police... 

According to President Jammeh, (left), AIDS sufferers will be cured within "three to thirty days." The President of Gambia has horrified scientists by announcing that he has developed a “miracle cure” for HIV/AIDS. Hundreds of Gambians have lined up to be “cured” by President Yahya Jammeh, who treats his patients by rubbing a mysterious herbal paste into their ribcages and then instructing...