Police hold man over albino daughter’s abduction

Tanzania police arrest man accused of trying to sell albino niece for witchcraft
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T anzanian police have arrested a 44-year-old man accused of trying to sell his albino niece to undercover security officials posing at witch doctors as part of a nationwide crackdown on the illegal ...

>The United Nations has raised the red flag over the wave of attacks on people living with albinism following the abduction of a four-year-old girl here on December 27.

>Police in Mwanza have arrested 15 people in connection with the abduction of a 4-year-old girl with albinism (name withheld) last month. The development comes as regional commissioner Magesa Mulugo vowed to explore all possible means to make sure that the girl is found and rescued.

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UN demands investigation into albino girl abduction
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Tanzania, Jan 9 – Tanzania must find an albino girl kidnapped last month, the country's top UN official said Friday, expressing “outrage” at a series of attacks on albinos, whose body parts are sold for witchcraft. Kidnappers armed with machetes seized ...

Albino girl's father arrested after her abduction, murder
MyFox Washington DC
The father of a 4-year-old albino girl was arrested in Tanzania after police say he may have been involved in her abduction and murder. Officials believe the girl was kidnapped and murdered and her body parts sold on the black market. According to an online ...

Detectives despatched to probe Mwanza albino child abduction
Daily News
A TEAM of detectives from Dar es Salaam has been dpatched to investigate the abduction of a four-year-old girl with albinm, Pendo Emmanuel, in Kwimba Dtrict last Saturday. The incident, according to Mwanza Regional Police Commander (RPC) Mr ...

Man strangles his daughter to death
Daily News
THE Police in Kagera Region are investigating an incident where a father strangled to death his daughter for unknown reasons. Kagera Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Henry Mwaibambe, named the suspect as Gerald Paul (34), adding that the sad ...

An American man claims to be king of a small piece of Africa so his daughter can become a princess.

Man kills step daughter (two) over family feud
Daily News
POLICE in Dodoma Region are hunting for a man from Iyumbi in the Municipality for allegedly killing his twoyear old step daughter. The Dodoma Regional Police Commander, Mr David Misime, said in a statement released that the accused, Robert Chipuza ...