Elizabeth Bahati at her compound in Maweni village, Taveta Sub-county, Taita-Taveta County, on November 7, 2024. She came to ...

This rail line requires patience and stamina. But even with the inevitable delays, the cars fill up.

The Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) continues to prevent villagers from farming or herding cattle in an area marked for expansion of a national park, the U.S.-based Oakland Institute said ...

Isaac stared down at his sandals and wondered out loud how suitable they’d be for the ordeal ahead: A perilous crossing of ...

Hunted down by witchdoctors and sold by their own families: The albinos of Tanzania driven from their homes and forced to live in hiding for fear of being hacked to pieces by shamans who believe ...

Spotting albino animals, however, is even more of a challenge, making up less than 1% of the wild animals in Tanzania.

People with albinism practice karate at a local club in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, June 17, 2021. [/Xinhua ] Deogratias Ngonyani, a 33-year-old man with albinism, is a regular ...

Attacks on people with albinism in the late 2000s were perpetuated by rumors and myths that albino body parts held “special powers” that could be ritually unlocked by traditional healers.

Noni, 18, lost her right arm in Tanzania, where superstition says people with albinism are ghostly curses who bring bad luck. Their body parts are valued in witchcraft and can fetch a high price.

For decades, the oppressed albino men and women of Tanzania's remote Ukerewe Island have been hidden away from the outside world. Now, thanks to an amazing record producer who offered some of them ...

Albino children take a break in a recreational hall at the Mitindo Primary School for the blind in Tanzania on January 25, 2009. In Tanzania and other parts of Africa, people with albinism are ...