Witchcraft Slayings in Africa?

Fom yesterday's Ecumenical News International:

Suspected ritual killings in Kenya alarm churches
By Fredrick Nzwili
Nairobi, 29 June (ENI)--Kenyan church leaders have condemned recent killings of children in suspected witchcraft rituals in the coastal city of Mombasa, where over 20 children are reported to have disappeared in the last six months.

"We condemn these killings in strongest terms," said the Rev. Wellington Sanga, the conference secretary of the Methodist Church of Kenya.

Police on 20 June arrested three people in Mombasa in connection with the disappearance and deaths of three children, whose bodies were found early in the month with their eyes and sex organs
missing.

Sanga said he suspected the missing body parts were intended for witchcraft rituals.

... The Anglican assistant bishop of Mombasa, the Rev. Laurence Dena, said the church was seeking information on the killings, which had shocked residents in the Indian Ocean city.

The Child Rights Advisory Documentary and Legal Centre said it was demanding that the government adopt serious measures to curb such incidents and award harsh punishment to anyone trafficking children for witchcraft practices.