Tanzania bans witch doctors to deter albino killings: TRFN
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania has banned witch doctors in a bid to curb a rising wave of attacks and murders of albinos whose body parts are prized for witchcraft after a four-year-old albino girl was kidnapped from her home by an armed gang. More than 70 albinos, who lack pigment in their skin, hair and eyes, have been murdered in the east African nation in the past decade for black magic purposes, according to United Nations figures, many hacked to death and body parts removed. …
