Daily Digest Online

A BBC Africa Eye investigation has uncovered a clandestine network in Sierra Leone where practitioners claim to procure human body parts for so-called "juju" or black magic rituals, preying on widespread belief and systemic gaps in law enforcement. A recent BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed the operations of an underground trade in human body parts linked to ritualistic killings in Sierra Leone. The report documents undercover interactions with individuals claiming to be "juju" practitioners who offer to obtain human remains for clients seeking power, prosperity, or political success. The investigation was prompted by the unresolved 2021 murder of 11-year-old Papayo Kalokoh in Makeni, whose mutilated body was found in a well. “They killed my child and now there is just silence,” his mother, Sallay Kalokoh, told the BBC, highlighting a pattern of ritual killings that often go uninvestigated in a country with only one pathologist for ne...