Tanzanian families seek safe havens for albino children, fear attacks

Tanzanian families seek safe havens for albino children, fear attacks - TRFN
Daily Mail
DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T anzanian parents with albino children are racing to find safe havens for their youngsters after the abduction and suspected murder of two children raised fears of more attacks on albinos ahead of ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Vijimambo

NEWS: US DOCTORS HELP TANZANIAN CHILDREN HARMED IN ALBINO ATTACKS

5 Tanzanian children attacked and robbed of limbs because they are albino are being outfitted with prosthetic at a Philadelphia hospital.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that New York City-based Global Medical Relief Fund connected the children, ages 6 to 16, with prosthetic specialists at Shriner's Hospital.

Hundreds of albinos have been attacked in Africa since 1998.Tanzanians subscribing to superstition see them as demons or ghosts with mystical powers whose body parts are used in...

 

10 years ago

Windsor Star

08 Jul

Albino children locked away to keep them safe from witch doctors who claim ...

Windsor Star
Albino children locked away to keep them safe from witch doctors who claim ...
Windsor Star
Baraka Cosmas Rusambo, 6 years old with albinism from Tanzania, is treated at Global Medical Relief Fund and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. In March, assailants lopped off the right hand of Rusambo.
Grim camps albinos' best shot at avoiding witch doctors' clutchesNew Zealand Herald

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Dewji Blog

09 Sep

A Safe And Fun Haven For Families

Head of Marketing The Walt Disney Company Africa, Deirdre King, talking to journalists (not in picture) who were attending the second edition of MultiChoice Africa Content Showcase Extravaganza #OnlyTheBest which held in Outrigger Mauritius Beach Resort, Bel Ombre recently.(Photo by Zainul Mzige of Modewjiblog)

Disney Junior, which airs on DStv channel 309 and GOtv Plus channel 60, is learning-focused and reflects the emotional connection that generations of consumers have to Disney...

 

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Evening Standard

14 Sep

Zanzibar acid attack victims' families seek answers on charges

Zanzibar acid attack victims' families seek answers on charges
Evening Standard
The families of two British teenagers disfigured in an acid attack in Zanzibar today demanded answers over claims two Islamist terrorists had been charged. Friends Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup suffered horrific burns after being doused in battery acid by ...

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

18 Dec

Almost 90% of Tanzanians believe the nation is safe More than half fear future ...

IPPmedia
Almost 90% of Tanzanians believe the nation is safe More than half fear future ...
IPPmedia
Nine out of ten (88 percent) citizens in the country are of the view that Tanzania is safe and secure and another 61 per cent are of the opinion that East Africa as a whole is also secure. The findings were released yesterday in Dar es Salaam by ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Migrants live in fear after SA attacks

Xenophobic attacks by South Africans against fellow African migrants have been continuing in Durban.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Apr

EA speakers seek lasting solution to terror attacks

East African Community (EAC) speakers of national assemblies have called for concerted efforts to find a lasting solution to terrorism in the region.

 

10 years ago

BBC

South Africa's xenophobic attacks: Fear and shame

South Africa's xenophobic attacks prompt fear and shame

 

11 years ago

Daily News

28 May

NGO to help children from poor families

NGO to help children from poor families
Daily News
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), SOS children village, has started helping low-income families by making sure that children go to schools. Mr Salum Abdulrahman Salum, SOS- Zanzibar Director said when he met community leaders at ...

 

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