YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of young Nigerians have invented an island where people with albinism live to escape being hunted down and having their limbs hacked off for use in witch ...

NEW YORK, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tuesday marks International Albinism Awareness Day, established by the United Nations to bring global attention to understanding albinism and fighting ...

In Tanzania, people with albinism are believed to be "haunted beings." — -- Baraka and Mwigulu are bunkmates, living in hiding in Tanzania, where they are hunted simply because of how they look.

The condition itself is rare, but the odds of two twins both having the condition at birth are thought to be around "one in two million." As a result of their albinism, the sisters are both visually ...