Lake Zone for public education on albino killings

Lake Zone for public education on albino killings
Daily News
THE government is working together with the Human Rights and Good Governance Commission to provide education to notorious areas where killings of people with albinism are rampant. Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda told the National Assembly on Tuesday ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Aug

LAKE ZONE: End albino killings, MP urges people of goodwill

>Leaders from the Tanzania Association of People with albinism have asked Tanzanians of goodwill to support them in ending the dangers facing them.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Dec

LAKE ZONE: Fresh killings rock Lake Zone towards Christmas

>Brutal killings of elderly people have been reported in the Lake Zone ahead of the festive season, The Citizen has learnt.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

LAKE ZONE: Brutal killings of old women resurface

>The killing of old women over witchcraft beliefs have resurfaced in Geita Region after a resident of Nyabalasana Village, Kakubilo Ward in Geita District, Shiduki Masala, 60, was murdered by unidentified assailants.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Mar

LAKE ZONE: 5 held in albino child murder

>The Police Force here is holding five people on suspicions of taking part in the recent murder of Yohana Bahati, a one-year-old minor with albinism kidnapped from her mother, Esther Jonas, who was carrying him on February 15, this year.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jul

L. ZONE: ‘Speed up Lake Zone water link’

Kagera. Local residents are asking the government to speed up the implementation of a project to hook up Lake and Central Zones to a safe water reservoir at Lake Victoria.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

28 Mar

Kagera RC warns over albino killings

Kagera RC warns over albino killings
Daily News
KAGERA Regional Commisssioner, Mr John Mongella has called upon residents and leaders in the region to cooperate and end the senseless killing of people living with albinism. He warned that if person with albinism is killed, leaders and the entire ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Mar

UN set to investigate albino killings in EA

>The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday decided to appoint an expert to investigate abuses suffered by albinos in East Africa. The 47-member council adopted by consensus a resolution establishing a three-year watchdog position. It expressed “grave concern at attacks and widespread violations against persons with albinism, including women and children, persons with disabilities and the elderly.”

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Mar

We’ll end albino killings, vows JK

>President Jakaya Kikwete has expressed shock over the fresh wave of killings of people with albinism in the country, saying this barbaric cruelty, which has also given Tanzania a bad image, cannot be tolerated. In his first remarks since the renewed wave of attacks on albinos, which has subjected Tanzania to global condemnation, President Kikwete sought to absolve the government from blame, saying past efforts by his administration had stamped out the vice.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Mar

Govt not doing enough to end albino killings

The right to life is a constitutional right of every person in the world and such it is provided for in Article 14 of The Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, 1977.

 

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