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Two People Lynched After Being Accused of Witchcraft in Ghana, Reports Say
Two People Lynched After Being Accused of Witchcraft in Ghana, Reports Say
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Two people in Ghana's Mion district ill were lynched after being accused of witchcraft, reports say.
2023-05-10T12:10+0200
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On Sunday, two people in Ghana's Mion district were lynched after being accused of witchcraft, reports say.Both victims, Imoro Safura and Mba Cherefo, were accused of mystically making a woman from Mion ill after her parents turned to a fortune-teller for help.It is reported that an angry young man from the community attacked Safura at her home. She tried to escape and run to Cherefo's place, but the attacker managed to stop her and she was lynched.Later, the young man chased Mba Cherefo and reportedly murdered him at his home.County police have launched an investigation into the case. Lamnatu Adam, Secretary of the Regional Re-integration Committee of Alleged Witches, underlined the need for a rapid inquiry into the case, strongly condemning the lynchingIn the North of Ghana, cases of people being accused of witchcraft are a persistent problem, and this has often led to attacks on victims and the burning of their homes by their accusers, reports state. While most victims of the accusations are usually driven out of their communities and take shelter in different witch camps, some of them are physically assaulted or lynched. In order to put an end to the violence, the Ghanaian Parliament is currently working out an anti-witchcraft law. The legislation will prohibit both all the activities connected to witchcraft, as well as any accusations of that matter. Preliminary discussions on the bill with stakeholders began in country's capital Accra last month as part of efforts to mobilize support for the bill's passage by the Parliament.
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Two People Lynched After Being Accused of Witchcraft in Ghana, Reports Say
12:10 10.05.2023 (Updated: 17:35 10.05.2023) In recent years, accusations of witchcraft have occurred more and more often in Northern Ghana. In July 2020, 90-year-old Shark Denta was lynched after being accused of witchcraft in Kafaba in East Gonja Municipality in the Savannah Region.
On Sunday, two people in Ghana's Mion district were lynched after being accused of witchcraft, reports say.
Both victims, Imoro Safura and Mba Cherefo, were accused of mystically making a woman from Mion ill after her parents turned to a fortune-teller for help.
It is reported that an angry young man from the community attacked Safura at her home. She tried to escape and run to Cherefo's place, but the attacker managed to stop her and she was lynched.
Later, the young man chased Mba Cherefo and reportedly
murdered him at his home.
County police have launched an investigation into the case. Lamnatu Adam, Secretary of the Regional Re-integration Committee of Alleged Witches, underlined the need for a rapid inquiry into the case, strongly condemning the lynching
In the North of Ghana, cases of people being accused of witchcraft
are a persistent problem, and this has often led to attacks on victims and the burning of their homes by their accusers, reports state.
While most victims of the accusations are usually driven out of their communities and take shelter in different witch camps, some of them are physically assaulted or lynched.
In order to put an end to the violence, the Ghanaian Parliament is currently working out an anti-witchcraft law. The legislation will prohibit both all the activities connected to witchcraft, as well as any accusations of that matter.
Preliminary discussions on the bill with stakeholders began in country's capital Accra last month as part of efforts to mobilize support for the bill's passage by the Parliament.
