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Tanzania: 7,000 Albinos Put Under Protection
Daily News, 12 April 2012
THE government has identified some 7,000 children with albinism in the country and are being protected from human predators. Read more »
Tanzanian Govt Puts Albinos Under Protection
The government has chosen to safeguard roughly 7000 children with albinism to protect them from human predators.
An Albino boy carries a baby in Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 17 May 2007. Each segment of the civilian population in the north faces its own horrors. Boys are kidnapped by the LRA and brutally indoctrinated into life as soldiers.
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East Africa: Albinos Are Like Us, Just With a Different Skin Tone - Clementine Dusabejambo
New Times, 16 June 2012
FOLLOWING the killings of albinos in Uganda and Tanzania, The Telegraph newspaper reported that over 57 murders and around 14 attempted murders have so far been recorded in… Read more »
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Tanzania: NGO Condemns Recent Killing of Albino in Arusha
Daily News, 14 June 2012
A GROUP advocating for the rights of albinos, Under the Same Sun (UTSS), has condemned the killing of unidentified man with albinism whose body was found mutilated at Namabala… Read more »
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Tanzania: Fear As Albino Man Killed in Arusha
Daily News, 11 June 2012
FEAR has gripped people with albinism in Arusha following discovery of a badly mutilated body of an albino an, suggesting people who kill them for their body parts could be on a… Read more »
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Kenya: Albinos Decry Discrimination in the Country
The Star, 20 May 2012
THE Albinism Foundation of East Africa has decried the discrimination faced by albinos in the country. Speaking in Mombasa during an Albino sensitisation training at the weekend,… Read more »
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Kenya: Border Albinos Threatened
The Star, 18 May 2012
ALBINOS living near the borders are more vulnerable to attacks, kidnappings and stigmatisation. Speaking during a workshop organised in Mombasa, the managing trustee of the… Read more »
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Tanzania: Albinos Want More Realistic Name
Daily News, 13 May 2012
For all the help people with albinism in the country get and all the sympathy their fellow nationals direct towards them, they are calling for a proper address of their physical… Read more »
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Nigeria: Albinism Is Not a Curse
Leadership, 11 April 2012
Ignorance about albinism has made persons without melanin, also referred to as albinos to suffer unjustly in the hands of people who are not properly enlightened about this… Read more »
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Tanzania: We're Doomed Unless We Shun Superstition
Citizen, 27 February 2012
Reports from a village in Mpanda District in Katavi Region, that three women were killed allegedly for using their witchery to deny the area rain, are most disturbing. Read more »
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Tanzania: Albino Child Rescued
Daily News, 26 February 2012
A FOUR-year-old albino child, Juma Kapeta, who was abducted by unknown people last year has been found alive. He was found last Friday and has been sheltered at the St Martin de… Read more »
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Tanzania: Albinos are Normal Human Beings
Daily News, 29 January 2012
I am tempted to write on Albinism as a genetic disorder. Individuals who suffer from Albinism are called Albinos (zeruzeru). Read more »
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Tanzania: Eight to Hang for Albino Murders
RNW Africa, 21 November 2011
Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said Monday eight suspects have been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of albinos since a wave of witchcraft killings erupted in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Shocker - Sale of Pubic, Albino Hair Booms in Delta
Leadership, 10 December 2011
Sale of pubic and Albino hair has become big business in Delta State, even as used pants, finger nails are also used in the preparation of a charm called 'love soap'. Read more »
