Craig just showed me this:

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) — Worried that her daughters’ budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started ‘ironing’ the girls’ bosoms with a heated stone.

I said, is Cameroon in Africa? That must be Africa. And yes, it is. What’s with the entirely wacky stuff going on in Africa? I’d fully believe this is I saw it:

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) — In an attempt to appease “the Elder Gods of Toilet Anger”, Yusana Pholamone followed the traditional remedy of shoving live chickens up his son’s rectums until everyone involved was dead.

I guess it’s lack of health care, and any kind of traditional remedy looks better than no remedy at all, I guess. But still?

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) — Thirteen are dead as an attempted C-section went awry in a local village. “My wife could not produce the child,” said Motumbo Yuthasa, the alleged killer. “So I attempted to find the baby in the bellies of the men and women in the village, as my father told me, and his father told him.”