Albinos

Three Year Old Albino -- Victim of Witchcraft Sacrifice

Pius Kamau | Posted 05.01.2012

Pius Kamau

What is so true about this tragedy is that so few people know about the plight of Tanzanian and other African albinos. And those who know only pay lip service to it.

Tanzania Elects First Albino MP

Posted 05.25.2011

The election of Salum Khalfani Bar'wani, Tanzania's first albino MP, is being hailed as a breakthrough for those affected by the genetic condition in ...

Albino Mother, 5-Year-Old Boy Killed For Body Parts In Burundi, Activists Say

AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 05.25.2011

NAIROBI, Kenya — Attackers in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother's eye, killing them over the belief...

Albinos In Tanzania Being Hunted For Their Body Parts For Witchcraft (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

The United Nations has a horrifying video report about how albinos in Tanzania are being hunted in order to harvest their body parts. Albinos there h...

Africa's Albinos Killed Without Remorse

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

BOSTON -- Up two flights of stairs in a musty apartment in central Madrid is where an African man with a face as white as chalk has placed his hope fo...