{"id":209548,"date":"2025-10-11T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-traditional-healer-jailed-five-years-for-manslaughter-in-nimba-county\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:33:17","slug":"liberia-traditional-healer-jailed-five-years-for-manslaughter-in-nimba-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-traditional-healer-jailed-five-years-for-manslaughter-in-nimba-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Traditional Healer Jailed Five Years for Manslaughter in Nimba County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">A traditional healer identified as Madiswon Gaye, popularly known as <em>&#8220;Dao-Dao,&#8221;<\/em> has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter in connection with the death of a man during a failed gun protection ritual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in Sanniquellie found Gaye guilty of negligently causing the death of a 32-year-old man while performing what he described as a traditional &#8220;bulletproof&#8221; preparation. The ruling has reignited debate over the safety and regulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100596.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traditional healer identified as Madiswon Gaye, popularly known as &#8220;Dao-Dao,&#8221; has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter in connection with the death of a man during a failed gun protection ritual. The Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in Sanniquellie found Gaye guilty of negligently causing the death of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,5091,22253,5696,4712,1107,28184,257,2962,254,9464,5114],"class_list":["post-209548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-county","tag-healer","tag-jailed","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-manslaughter","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}