Albinism in Tanzania has long been regarded as a curse. Albinos have been tortured and killed throughout the country and their body parts used in magic potions prepared by witch doctors. Now ...

For years, the alabaster-skinned people born on this sun-scorched constellation of islands off Panama’s Caribbean coast have been venerated as the Grandchildren of the Sun. A family with four albino ...

Albino Mary Owido sits with her children Steven, left, Stella, and Brayan, at their home in western Kenyan town of Ahero. The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven ...

Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a ...

KABANGA, Tanzania – As an infant in rural Tanzania, Angel Salvatory was unusual. Snow white skin, blond hair, and blue eyes set her apart from others in her village. Those unique looks have also made ...

International Albinism Awareness Day on June 13 has been observed in Cameroon, with albinos asking for more government and community care and protection. Those living with this hereditary genetic ...

Albinos around the world are marking International Albinism Awareness Day today. The much-persecuted minority - composed of people with a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of ...

In an 11th-grade classroom on this tropical island, the students have the deeply bronzed skin and black hair typical of ethnic Kuna people. That is, all except one: Mayli Gonzalez looks like she’s ...

Malawi’s albinos are at risk of “total extinction” amid escalating attacks against them for their body parts, the United Nations warned. Albinism is a genetic condition that leads to little or no ...