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New research reveals scars of Gambia's witch hunts

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A new study has highlighted the lasting psychological and social scars left by a state-sponsored witch hunt in The Gambia, more than a decade after it was carried out by former President Yahya Jammeh.

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Stigma haunts Gambians accused in state witch purge: study

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The book “Before Zugarramurdi” documents for the first time the campaign against witchcraft, which advanced eighty years to Logroño’s auto de fe

The legacy of persecution organised between 2008 and 2009 against the sorcerers under the Jammeh regime still attracts the attention of human rights defenders. Yayha Jammeh, a fervent "believer of Islam", believed and feared also occult practices such as sanctity and witchcraft. In power until 2017 and now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea, Yahya Jammeh is accused of a vast campaign of persecution targeted populations accused of witchcraft.

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France24 broke the news in France on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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