VIDEO: Trying to tackle albino abuse with film

Let's Tackle Child Abuse Together
AllAfrica.com
When the English coined the saying 'looking for a pin in a haystack' I think they must have been looking into the future on the Tanzanian society and the hassles of getting a suitable nanny to look after our sons and daughters. As the popular Kiswahili adage ...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says he will save the country's massive Nollywood film industry from pirates.

Tanzanian gang rape film helps village women halt sexual abuse
Reuters
PANGANI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aisha, an ambitious young businesswoman living in the city, returns to her home village for her younger sister's wedding and re-connects with her past, meeting family and friends. Perhaps because she ...

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UN condemns abuse of Tanzania's albino children
South China Morning Post (subscription)
A UN expert has condemned the abuse of albino children in government care centres in Tanzania, a country where many are killed and their body parts sold as lucky charms. At least 74 albinos have been murdered in the east African country since 2000, the ...
More protection needed for Tanzania albinos: UN rights officeJURIST
Ritual Killings of People With Albinism IncreaseAllAfrica.com
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An organisationthat promotes the wellbeingof persons with albinism(PWA) has issued stinging criticism against the United Nations envoy in Tanzania over a film on a boy with albinism.

Health ministers from West African countries have adopted a common strategy to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak.

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Nigeria has launched several programmes to try and reform captured members of the Boko Haram group.

Nomsa Maseko looks at how South Africa, with one of the greatest numbers of people with HIV, is tackling the disease.