ABUJA, Nigeria—Some five hundred villagers gathered in front of a police station in Madagascar’s southeastern district of Ikongo, armed with sticks and machetes. It was Aug. 29, and they had just ...

An albino child sits outside the courtroom in Ruyigi, eastern Burundi in a file photo. REUTERS/Jean Pierre Aime Harerimana By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The ...

To read about the harrowing tales from Tanzania about the fate of Albino children in the newspapers, regularly reported in recent years, is one thing. To read about the harrowing tales from Tanzania ...

Armed men abducted and beheaded a five-year-old albino girl in Mali at the weekend, police said, in what was feared to be a ritual murder for supposedly magic body parts. Djeneba Diarra, whose family ...

A woman who killed her four-month-old baby because she was an albino has been sentenced to serve one year in jail by a Gucha court. Sara Kemunto Nyabuto, 23, committed the offence on August 2, 2010 at ...

The Tanzanian police have arrested more than 200 unlicensed traditional healers linked to recent murders and kidnappings of the country's albino population. The East African country banned ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Loveness Mainato was admitted into a hospital with severe depression after giving birth to a second child with albinism. Her husband deserted her, and some of her relatives ...

An albino rights advocate, Fatimah Salahdeen-Omoyele, has launched a book aimed at addressing the needs of albinos. Titled ‘Melanin Minus (A mother’s account of raising a child with albinism)’, Mrs ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - The abduction of an albino child in Tanzania sparked calls on Tuesday for greater action to enforce a newly-imposed ban on witch doctors to stop the killing of albinos whose ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The abduction of an albino child in Tanzania sparked calls on Tuesday for greater action to enforce a newly-imposed ban on witch doctors to stop ...