ABUJA, Nigeria—Some five hundred villagers gathered in front of a police station in Madagascar’s southeastern district of Ikongo, armed with sticks and machetes. It was Aug. 29, and they had just ...

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 ...

Racism is often debated, discussed and analyzed in politics, the classroom and the workplace. But as a scholar of the politics of skin color, I see colorism as a form of prejudice that’s poorly ...

To read about the harrowing tales from Tanzania about the fate of Albino children in the newspapers, regularly reported in recent years, is one thing. To read about the harrowing tales from Tanzania ...

A woman who killed her four-month-old baby because she was an albino has been sentenced to serve one year in jail by a Gucha court. Sara Kemunto Nyabuto, 23, committed the offence on August 2, 2010 at ...

Madagascar police confirmed Tuesday that officers killed 19 people and injured 21 others after opening fire on what was described as a lynch mob angered over the kidnapping of an albino child.

Parents have been advised to provide adequate sun protection for their albino children due to their lack of Melanie which may put them at high risk. The co-founder of Onome Akinlolu Majaro (OAM) ...

An albino rights advocate, Fatimah Salahdeen-Omoyele, has launched a book aimed at addressing the needs of albinos. Titled ‘Melanin Minus (A mother’s account of raising a child with albinism)’, Mrs ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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 ...