Malawi: Stiffer Penalties for Albino Attacks

Lilongwe — Stronger laws are needed to protect albinos in Malawi from senseless attacks, civil rights campaigners stressed as several hundred people participated in a march to parliament in Lilongwe.

The United Nations warned last month that albinos in Malawi are at risk of "total extinction" amid a spike in killings and attacks for their body parts.

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