Tanzania Albinos

The Albino Boy Who Was Lost into Thin Air

Pius Kamau | Posted 06.01.2012

Pius Kamau

It is hard to imagine that an airline can lose a child. But that's precisely what seems to have happened to a three-year-old albino boy. It is this regret that has driven my pursuit to find out who this child was and whatever happened to him.

Thousands Lynched For Witchcraft In Tanzania, Report Finds

Posted 05.29.2012

Over the past six years, more than 3,000 people were lynched in Tanzania by frightened neighbors who thought they were witches, according to a new rep...

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 Albinos Murdered Or Raped As AIDS "Cure"

Posted 07.05.2011

By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of albinos are thought to have been killed for black magic purposes in Tanzania and...

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 ...

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...

Tanzanians To Name Albino Killers

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Tanzania is launching a nationwide exercise urging the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism....