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According to a story now current in Leopoldville, the Congolese government is actually run by a talking snake. Not long ago, as the witchmen tell it, an army officer's wife was walking through the forest outside her husband's garrison when the snake slithered up and hissed: "Take me to your leader." She did, and ever since it has been dispensing advice from President Joseph Kasavubu's kingly mansion on the banks of the Congo River...
...poison in the bottles he brandished had been intended for his food, Houphouet reported, just in case the hexed coffins did not work. But the word got out (witchmen are notorious gossips), and the perpetrator had already gone to his reward. He was Ernest Boka, 36, until two weeks ago president of the Ivory Coast's Supreme Court and the third man in line of succession behind Houphouet. Boka had confessed, Houphouet claimed, and then hanged himself by his pajama trousers in the prison shower. So does justice catch up with the juju man, Houphouet warned...