This week, albinos and so-called witch doctors have made headlines. A number of news outlets reported that Tanzania had announced a ban on these "witch doctors" to curb attacks on people with albinism ...

Learn about organizations working to protect albinos from guesome attacks. Aug. 26, 2010 — -- In Tanzania, life with albinism is a near death sentence. Fifty-seven people with albinism have been ...

He says the documentary, about a boy who had three fingers hacked off for their purported magic power, is farfetched. People with albinism don't... In the documentary The Boy from Geita, 13-year-old ...

NEW YORK, March 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four Tanzanian children with albinism, who lost limbs in brutal superstition-driven attacks, arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzanian police said on Wednesday they had found the mutilated body of a one-year-old albino boy whose abduction renewed calls for tougher action to stop ...

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 ...

GENEVA (AP) — The Tanzanian government’s system of rounding up children with albinism in state-run education centers isn’t adequately protecting them from widespread superstitious beliefs that human ...

Albinism, a rare genetic disorder characterized by a lack of pigment in hair, skin and eyes affects fewer than one in 200,000 Americans. But in Tanzania, where the incidence is the highest in the ...

For many albinos — born with a partial or total lack of pigment in their skin, hair and eyes — life is difficult, and that is particularly... Tanzania's Albinos Face Constant Threat Of Attack Life is ...

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 ...

DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzanian court has charged four people over the murder of an albino woman over six years ago as pressure mounts for authorities in the east African country to do more to stop the ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzanian police said on Wednesday they had found the mutilated body of a one-year-old albino boy whose abduction renewed calls for tougher action to stop ...