Accused, shunned, exiled: The women banished to Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
Women accused of witchcraft are cast out of their communities in north Ghana. Now some are trying to break this cycle.
![“I’ve lived in this camp for 45 years,” says Bachalibanoya. After her husband’s death, the children of his other wife accused her of witchcraft—an allegation that would alter the course of her life. Now the oldest resident of the Gambaga camp, she has lived in exile for more than four decades. [Claire Thomas/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CT_GHANA_9MAY25_0186-1763638267-1-1763884262.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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