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 ...

Surrounded by pristine waters, the Félix Estéban Oller High School is located on Nargana Island, also known as Yandup, which belongs to the Guna Yala Comarca. This school accommodates more than 300 ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzanian parents with albino children are racing to find safe havens for their youngsters after the abduction and suspected murder of two children raised ...

NEW YORK — As 5-year-old Baraka Cosmas Lusambo slept in his family's home in western Tanzania in March, men wielding torches and knives burst in, knocked his mother unconscious, held him down and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- In Tanzania, superstition dictates that people with albinism are both despised as damaged demons and prized for mystical powers. Deemed to be ghosts because of their lack of ...

As the sun burns furiously through the torn ozone layer every day, its extreme heat, aggravated by policy neglect, roasts the ambition of many children with albinism, GBENGA OGUNDARE reports Nifemi ...

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 ...

Two Tanzanian boys with albinism got new prosthetic limbs after they had their arms cut off. One out every 1,500 Tanzanians is an albino. Despite the high rate, albinos are not seen as ideal human ...

One out every 1,500 Tanzanians is an albino. Despite the high rate, albinos are not seen as ideal human beings. Superstitious beliefs have led to the killing of albinos in the Great Lakes region in ...