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Saudi Arabia's War on Witchcraft: A special unit of the religious police pursues magical crime aggressively, and the convicted face death sentences.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/saudi-arabias-war-on-witchcraft/278701/

A man was sentenced to death in Malawi on Friday for killing an albino teenager in a case which has become a campaign issue ahead of a national election this month, with the opposition accusing the government of inaction.

Belief in witchcraft is widespread in rural Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, fuelling ritual killings particularly targeting people with albinism because of the belief that their body parts can increase wealth.

https://www.africanews.com/2019/05/04/malawi-sentences-man-to-death-for-killing-an-albino-teenager/

Witchcraft tales in thirst for land put elders lives at risk

https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/kilifi/Witchcraft-tales-put-Kilifi-elders-lives-risk/1183282-5069132-11emc26/index.html

Zambian army called on to quell 'witchcraft unrest'

http://en.rfi.fr/africa/20190103-focus-africa-witches-run-riot-eastern-disctrict-zambia

Tanzania arrests 65 'witchdoctors' over killings

http://en.rfi.fr/africa/20190103-focus-africa-witches-run-riot-eastern-disctrict-zambia

‘I Am Not A Witch’ is a remarkable, strange and politically potent first film

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/i-am-not-a-witch-is-a-remarkable-strange-and-politically-potent-first-film/2018/09/10/f9cbd9d8-b155-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.357b4b88087e

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