DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian albinos are living in terror following 30 murders in the east African nation by people apparently seeking their body parts for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MWANZA, Tanzania — Bibiana Mashamba loves to ...

This week, albinos and so-called witch doctors have made headlines. A number of news outlets reported that Tanzania had announced a ban on these "witch doctors" to curb attacks on people with albinism ...

A belief that their body parts have magical powers has sparked a grisly trade. NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa’s albinos ...

GENEVA -- The Tanzanian government's system of rounding up children with albinism in state-run education centers isn't adequately protecting them from widespread superstitious beliefs that human ...

A 15-year-old albino boy has been found dismembered in Burundi a week after going missing, the first such killing in the country in three years, a local albino group said Sunday. Albinos, who have ...

Tanzania: A six-year-old whose hand was hacked off by men who broke into his home has become the latest albino in Tanzania to be attacked because their body parts are worth thousands of pounds. Baraka ...

She is haunted daily by the image of the decapitated head of her 9-year-old son. Police asked Edna Cedrick to identify it after the boy, who had albinism, was snatched from her arms in a violent ...

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