<P> In eastern Cameroon, the term used for witchcraft among the Maka is djambe and refers to a force inside a person; its powers may make the proprietor more vulnerable . It encompasses the occult, the transformative, killing and healing . </P> <P> In some Central African areas, malicious magic users are believed by locals to be the source of terminal illness such as AIDS and cancer . In such cases, various methods are used to rid the person from the bewitching spirit, occasionally physical and psychological abuse . Children may be accused of being witches, for example a young niece may be blamed for the illness of a relative . Most of these cases of abuse go unreported since the members of the society that witness such abuse are too afraid of being accused of being accomplices . It is also believed that witchcraft can be transmitted to children by feeding . Parents discourage their children from interacting with people believed to be witches . </P> <P> Every year, hundreds of people in the Central African Republic are convicted of witchcraft . </P> <P> As of 2006, between 25,000 and 50,000 children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, had been accused of witchcraft and thrown out of their homes . These children have been subjected to often - violent abuse during exorcisms, sometimes supervised by self - styled religious pastors . Other pastors and Christian activists strongly oppose such accusations and try to rescue children from their unscrupulous colleagues . The usual term for these children is enfants sorciers (child witches) or enfants dits sorciers (children accused of witchcraft). In 2002, USAID funded the production of two short films on the subject, made in Kinshasa by journalists Angela Nicoara and Mike Ormsby . </P>

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