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Children are targets of Nigerian
witch-hunt |
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The rainy season is over and the Niger Delta is lush
and humid. This southern edge of West Africa, where
Nigeria's wealth pumps out of oil and gas fields to
bypass millions of its poorest people, is a restless
place. In the small delta state of Akwa Ibom, the tension and
the poverty has delivered an opportunity for a
new and terrible phenomenon that is leading to
the abuse and the murder
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CHILD-WITCHES? with
2-day-old twins,
• Accused says children are
witches and wizards brought to her for healing
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The police at Zone 9 headquarters in Umuahia, Abia
State, have arrested two suspected human traffickers and their
accomplices with one of them caught with two-day-old twin
babies who still had their umbilical cords attached.
The other suspect was nabbed with 37 children believed
by the police to be sold for rituals, but the suspect, Rev.
Dr. (Mrs.) Joy Ugwueze, said the kids were witches and wizards
brought to her church
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