A new report has revealed that about 70 Tanzanian albinos have been killed in the past six years. The body parts of these albinos, ranging from hearts to genitals, are widely believed to be powerful magical ingredients. In a move to stop these killings, the government of the east African country has banned soothsayers from talking about albinos in order …

In what can best be described as wickedness of the highest order, a nine-year-old Malawian boy suffering from Albinism, identified as Brian Cedrick, has been murdered by a criminal gang nicknamed ‘Albino hunters’, who often kidnap Albinos in the country, murder them and sell off their body parts to ritualists and witch doctors. According …

The police in Tanzania has heard how a man broke into a house and chopped off the arm of a sleeping 6-year-old Albino child with the aim of using it for witchcraft. The boy, Baraka Cosmas, according to his mother, was sleeping in her room when the assailant broke into the room and hacked off his right hand. In what has become a regular feature of discrimination …