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I.Coast king seeks to exorcise coronavirus

Photo|Courtesy: Exorcism featuring dancers to ward off ‘bad spirit’

An aide to an influential king in Ivory Coast has said the monarch could order a procession of naked women to ward off coronavirus by seeking the protection of spirits.

The king of Sanwi, based in the southeast of the world's top cocoa grower, held a special exorcism ceremony last week seeking divine intervention to protect his three million subjects against the epidemic.

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