Four albino killers sentenced to hang

Four albino killers sentenced to hang
Daily News
THE High Court Mbeya Division yesterday convicted and sentenced to death by hanging four people out of five who were charged with killing a person with albinism, one Henry Mwakajila (16,) in 2008 in Rungwe district, Mbeya region. The condemned ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Apr

Hang albino killers? It can’t be any time soon

It started with a demand that culprits be prosecuted. But when push came to shove, actually putting to death those who kill people with albinism proved a mission too tough. Thanks to the legal system, it takes more than just paperwork from the trial judge to face the hangman.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Jun

Hang albino killers, says lobby group

Arusha. The Tanzania Albino Society (TAS) yesterday pleaded with President Jakaya Kiwete to honour pledges of providing subsidy and signing death warrants to albino killers he made in 2003.

 

10 years ago

Capital FM Kenya (Press Release) (Subscription) (Blog)

06 Mar

Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania

Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Tanzania, Mar 6 – A court in Tanzania has sentenced four people to death for the murder of an albino woman who was killed so her hacked-off limbs could be used in magic, officials said Friday. The sentencing comes after Tanzania' President Jakaya ...
Tanzania court sentence four to death over killing of young albinoCoastweek
Four...

 

10 years ago

Pulse Nigeria

02 Jul

In Tanzania: Four sentenced to death for killing albino teenager

Thomson Reuters Foundation
In Tanzania: Four sentenced to death for killing albino teenager
Pulse Nigeria
The killers often hack their victims to death and sell their body party to witchdoctors who use them in spells to bring good luck and wealth. Witchdoctors pay as much as $75,000 for a full set of albino body parts, according to a Red Cross report ...
Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenagerReuters

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10 years ago

Reuters Africa

01 Jul

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, July 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania's High Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of abducting, killing and dismembering a 17-year-old albino boy.

 

10 years ago

Daily Mail

06 Mar

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for murdering albino woman

Daily Mail
Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for murdering albino woman
Daily Mail
Four people have been sentenced to death in Tanzania after brutally murdering a young albino woman in order to harvest her body parts as good luck charms. Zawadi Mangidu, 22, was killed in north-western town of Geita by a group that included her ...
In Tanzania: Albino killers sentenced to deathPulse Nigeria
Tanzania Drops English for KiswahiliLanguage Magazine
Four sentenced to death for killing albino in...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

14 Jan

Let Us All Pursue 'Albino' Abductors and Killers

IPPmedia
Let Us All Pursue 'Albino' Abductors and Killers
AllAfrica.com
HOME Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe soothed the population by announcing a ban on the so-called soothsayers and witchdoctors, as part of the overall effort by the government to check the shameful episode of abduction and killings of people with ...
The Grim Reason Tanzania Has Decided to Ban WitchdoctorsTIME
Home Affairs minister, Mathias Chikawe (Right)IPPmedia
Tanzania bans witchdoctors over albino attacksBBC...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

02 Mar

Albino killers must be brought to book

Albino killers must be brought to book
Daily News
A LETTER writer, one Christina Masanja of Geita Secondary School in Geita Region, wrote to us at the weekend complaining bitterly about the government's laxity - or rather failure - to stop albino killers whose motives, she says, are linked to superstition.

 

10 years ago

Magufuli

25 Sep

War against albino killers to intensify,

War against albino killers to intensify, - Magufuli
Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
UNION presidential candidate on CCM ticket, Dr John Magufuli, has vowed to intensify the war against killings of people with albinism and the elderly, which are on the increase in Lake Zone regions. Speaking to Bwanga residents who blocked his ...

 

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