In Tanzania, there have been 209 reports of attacks since 2007. Most recently, on 25 June 2024, a two-year-old girl with albinism was abducted and killed in Kagera region, about 1,500km from the ...

I could identify him easily.” Students with albinism wear hats and sit in the shade for morning tea break at Lake View School near Mwanza, Tanzania, while their classmates head toward the sunny ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (AfCHPR) has ordered Tanzania to establish a fund with an initial deposit of Tsh10 million ($3,905) to compensate persons with albinism who ...

These youngsters from Tanzania are not limbless by accident, or because of a birth defect. Their amputations were the work of human hunters with machetes who believed children with albinism ...

The sentencing comes after Tanzania' President Jakaya Kikwete blasted the wave of killings of albinos, whose body parts are used for witchcraft, as a "disgusting and big embarrassment for the nation".

"I can walk from here to the beach, but in Tanzania, I can't go by myself to the beach. There is not enough security for people with albinism," he said. Albinism is a congenital disorder affecting ...

People with albinism face widespread discrimination in many sub-Saharan African countries. In Tanzania, this minority has been subjected to extreme forms of violence. The government’s failure to ...