Editing Human sacrifice (section)

===Africa===
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Human sacrifice is no longer legal in any country, and such cases are prosecuted. As of 2020 however, there is still black market demand for child abduction in countries such as Kenya for purposes which include human sacrifice.<ref>{{cite news |last=Murimi |first=Peter |title=The baby stealers |website=[[BBC News]] |date=14 November 2020 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54892564 |access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref>

In January&nbsp;2008, [[Milton Blahyi]] of [[Liberia]] confessed to being part of human sacrifices which "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat." He fought against [[Charles Taylor (Liberia)|Charles Taylor]]'s militia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Paye |first=Jonathan |title=I ate children's hearts, ex-rebel says |website=[[BBC News]] |date=22 January 2008 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7200101.stm |access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref>

In 2019, an [[Anti-balaka]] leader in [[Satema]] in [[Central African Republic]] killed a 14-year-old girl in ritualistic way to increase profit from mines.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en%2FS%2F2019%2F930 |type=Letter |date=6 December 2019 |author=Romain Esmenjaud |author2=Mélanie De Groof |author3=Ilyas Oussedik |author4=Anna Osborne |author5=Émile Rwagasana |title=Final report of the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic extended pursuant to Security Council resolution 2454 (2019) |page=153 |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-date=17 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717060959/https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en%2FS%2F2019%2F930 }}</ref>

On 22 March 2014, a group of motorcycle taxi drivers discovered the [[Ibadan forest of horror]], a dilapidated building believed to have been used for human trafficking and ritual sacrifice located in Soka forest in [[Ibadan]], [[Oyo State]], [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26721112|title=Nigerian 'House of Horror' riot in Ibadan|work=BBC News|date=24 March 2014 |access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref>