COMPLAINT: Campaign to protect albinos lacks steam,activists charge

In what appears to be another desperate attempt to bring an end to the killing of people living with albinism, the government of Tanzania has reportedly arrested and detained over 200 ‘witch doctors and traditional healers’ in the country. Those arrested were ‘’healers and soothsayers’’ who were operating without a license. Found in their possession included ‘’lizard skin, warthog teeth, ostrich eggs, monkey tails, bird claws, mule tails...

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Witchdoctors banned to protect albinos
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Tanzania has banned witchdoctors in an effort to stem a surge in murders of albinos, whose body parts are sold for witchcraft. New Vision reports that this follows last month's kidnapping of a four-year-old girl from her home in the northern Mwanza region.
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Pope Francis recorded his voice last 30 November, reading several passages from the book “Ombra Bianco” (“White Shadow”) by the Italian author Cristiano Gentile, which seeks to raise public awareness of the situation experienced by albinos in Africa: a population often rejected and repudiated. The Holy Father was invited by the writer to close an international symposium on Africa organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

The reading and the Pope’s testimony form part of a universal...

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Mwanza on sensitisation campaign to protect children against violence
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A sensitisation campaign to protect children against violence has been launched in by a multi-faceted cooperation team in Mwanza. The team includes social welfare officers, civil society organisations, child protection teams from the Mwanza municipal ...

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