Campaign Tackles Baby Killings in Nigerian Capital

Author:
VOA News
Publisher:
VOA News
Publication Date:
4 October 2017
Tags:
Nigeria, Legal and Judicial Affairs

A 20-year grassroots campaign to end the cultural practice of ritual infanticide among indigenous communities around the Nigerian capital of Abuja is yielding success. The Bassa Komo people have a historic practice of killing babies that are perceived to be evil, including twins and albinos. But efforts by a local missionary and the government have helped to reduce the number of killings. Chika Oduah reports from the Nigerian capital territory.

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