Tanzanian albino children at a picnic organised by the Tanzania Red Cross Society in the government-run school for the disabled in Kabanga. There are now nearly 50 albino children, youngsters and single mothers sheltering in Kabanga, which also houses children with disabilities and hearing and sight problems. Many of the albinos only just escaped their villages with their lives and tell harrowing stories of killing and mutilation. One small boy says his non-albino mother’s hand was severed by albino hunters armed with machetes after she tried to prevent them seizing him.

Tanzanian Albinos Find A Refuge

In Tanzania albinos are still living in fear of being attacked or killed after nearly 50 were murdered in the past two years. It is thought that they are being killed because of the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people transmit magical powers. Witch doctors are willing to pay a lot of money for the body parts to create potions and tinctures for their clients. So far this year at least 12 albinos have been murdered in neighbouring Burundi. Al-Jazeera has reported that one of the murderers received $240 for the body, in a region where the annual wage can be as little as $10.

A mother and her child at the picnic organised by the Tanzania Red Cross Society. Older albino women, have in the past, been targeted in eastern Africa, because of the mistaken belief that they were witches.

A teenage girl in the female dormitory at the Kabanga school. The school has now completely run out of space, but vulnerable albinos are still being brought in by the police from as many as 200 kilometres away.

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African Leaders At The United Nations Summit.

 NO WONDER THE INFLATION RATE IN ZIMBABWE IS 2.5 MILLION %

When they were deliberating on energy and power, they were sleeping.  

• When they were deliberating on economic development, they were sleeping.
• When they deliberated on food security, they were asleep.
• When they fixed interest rate on debtor’s (African) loans, they were asleep.
• When they deliberated on conflict resolution through dialogue they were already snoring.

They only woke up, to support motion for adjournment and signed the communiqué.

Of course!, they need rest, they worked tirelessly back home clamping down their opponents and critics.

They spent the night strategizing on the next move to subdue their opponents.  

Back home, airports were closed 2hrs before their arrival, motor-ways were blocked 1hr ahead, Armed Policemen stood guard 8hrs before arrival. Rented crowd clamoured under sun to cheer them up, WHAT HAVE THEY BROUGHT HOME?

This is a continental disgrace. Do you know why the camera couldn’t pick our Yar’Adua? He was absent. He sent his Area Boy Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe. The man who came to gatecrash at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

When they finally wake up they should sue the cameraman for disturbing their harmless sleep. At least the sleeping dogs deserve to lie.

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