Congo's cursed children
Updated on 10 April 2007
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo children are being abandoned for "performing witchcraft".
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has already led to the deaths of more than four million people.
Every day it's estimated that twelve hundred people die in fighting, or from starvation and disease.
More than half are children. Now it's emerged that growing number of children are being accused of performing witchcraft, and as a result disowned.
In Kinshasa, the capital, twenty five thousand children have been abandoned - and now struggle for survival on the streets.
The charity Human Rights Watch estimates that three quarters of them are there because their families believe them to be cursed.
