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Guinea Bissau: Eight women fatally poisoned for witchcraft
ANCESTRAL PRACTICES• Several residents were accused of acts of witchcraft and a witch doctor made them drink a poisoned drink
20 Minutes with AFP
Published on 02/22/2024 at 8:37 p.m.• Updated on 02/22/2024 at 8:37 p.m.
Suspicions which resulted in the death of eight people. Eight women accused of acts of witchcraft in northern Guinea Bissau following the death of two young people from a devastating illness in Culadé, a town in the Cacheu region (north). A witch doctor made them drink a poisoned drink.
Eight women aged over 50 died after swallowing the mixture and 21 others were hospitalized in Sao Domingos, the regional capital, according to the city's sub-prefect, Carlos Sanha.
Popular animism
“It’s a practice that is becoming recurrent in this predominantly animist area,” Carlos Sanha told AFP. “We are going to take decisions to put an end to this practice worthy of ancestral times,” he said, adding: “It is sad and unacceptable, in the 21st century we can no longer tolerate such practices.”
In 2021 during the Covid-19 period , four people died in similar conditions in this same region, with residents believing that the epidemic caused by the virus was due to an act of witchcraft.
https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/4077...-femmes-empoisonnees-mortellement-sorcellerie
Guinea Bissau: Eight women fatally poisoned for witchcraft
ANCESTRAL PRACTICES• Several residents were accused of acts of witchcraft and a witch doctor made them drink a poisoned drink
20 Minutes with AFP
Published on 02/22/2024 at 8:37 p.m.• Updated on 02/22/2024 at 8:37 p.m.
Suspicions which resulted in the death of eight people. Eight women accused of acts of witchcraft in northern Guinea Bissau following the death of two young people from a devastating illness in Culadé, a town in the Cacheu region (north). A witch doctor made them drink a poisoned drink.
Eight women aged over 50 died after swallowing the mixture and 21 others were hospitalized in Sao Domingos, the regional capital, according to the city's sub-prefect, Carlos Sanha.
Popular animism
“It’s a practice that is becoming recurrent in this predominantly animist area,” Carlos Sanha told AFP. “We are going to take decisions to put an end to this practice worthy of ancestral times,” he said, adding: “It is sad and unacceptable, in the 21st century we can no longer tolerate such practices.”
In 2021 during the Covid-19 period , four people died in similar conditions in this same region, with residents believing that the epidemic caused by the virus was due to an act of witchcraft.
https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/4077...-femmes-empoisonnees-mortellement-sorcellerie