Overseas Archives: sorcerers, healers and quimboiseurs in the Overseas Territories – Outre-mer la 1ère

Overseas Archives sorcerers healers and quimboiseurs in the Overseas Territories

Sorcerers and healers inhabit our imagination. They say they have the ability to be a link between the world of the living and that of the Ancestors. Rituals of healing, bewitchment or magic: the Overseas archives offer you an overview of beliefs in the Overseas Territories. On Reunion Island, the frontier of religions develop cults … Read more

Ebola: Ugandan president orders healers to stop their activities

Ebola Ugandan president orders healers to stop their activities

In a televised address to the nation, he also ordered security officials to arrest anyone suspected of contracting the often fatal hemorrhagic fever if they refuse to self-isolate. His instructions follow a regional ministerial meeting in Kampala focused on emergency response to the outbreak after Uganda last month announced its first death from the highly … Read more

Uganda: President forbids traditional healers to cure Ebola patients | Africanews

Riccardo Muti explains why the opera must assume its history

President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday ordered traditional healers to stop treating the sick to halt the spread of Ebola, which has already claimed the lives of 19 people in the impoverished East African country. In a televised address to the nation, he also ordered security officials to arrest anyone suspected of contracting the often fatal … Read more