DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 29, 2007 (AFP) - A Tanzanian farmer is facing trial for removing the heart and liver from a freshly buried infant in a suspected witchcraft case, police told AFP on Wednesday.

Ardon John, 21, from Lula village in southwestern Tanzania, is accused of having dug out the grave on Sunday of an infant who had died the previous day, police inspector Magai Chassa said.

'John was arrested on the same day with the organs after police were informed of the incident,' he said, adding that the suspected witchdoctor was remanded by the court on Tuesday.

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 28, 2007 (AFP) - A traditional medicine man in Tanzania drowned after jumping in a river and promising to resurface three days later with relevations from ancestral spirits, police said Tuesday.

The local witch doctor, named as Nyasio Alfonso, staged his ill-fated stunt last week at the village of Masingo in the western Mpanda district near Lake Tanganyika, Rukwa regional police commander Daudi Siadi told AFP.

Dozens of villagers chanted and drummed as the fortune-teller dived to confer with the riverine spirits, he said.

MOUNT HAGEN, Papua New Guinea, Aug 4, 2007 (AFP) - The way a woman walks can be a death sentence in Papua New Guinea, where the ancient world of witchcraft has collided brutally with the modern plague of AIDS.

Women accused of being witches have been tortured and murdered by mobs holding them responsible for the apparently inexplicable deaths of young people stricken by the epidemic, officials and researchers say.

How the women are singled out for such a fate can be as cruel as their treatment, said Joe Kanekane of PNG's Law and Justice Sector Secretariat.