NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa’s albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to ...

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 ...

There is a new film about being born albino in Africa, In the Shadow of the Sun. The name derives from the classic book, The Shadow of the Sun by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. In this moving ...

Kris Kross plans a reunion: The duo will be onstage together for only one night, though. Miss out on the So So Def Anniversary Stars concert and risk missing jumping up and down with the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An increase in the number of attacks on people with albinism in Malawi since late 2014 by people seeking their body parts for witchcraft prompted Amnesty ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, October 14 (UNHCR) - Anaclet smiles and looks lovingly at his young son, but the wind blowing off nearby Lake Tanganyika can't cool his feverish mind. He worries deeply about the ...

Attacks on albino people, whose body parts can fetch up to $75,000 according to the Red Cross, have been reported in six countries in southern and east Africa since August, U.N. expert Ikponwosa Ero ...