Activists on the continent say poverty contributes to the suspicion surrounding albinos and the belief their body parts can be sold for large sums of money.

Tanzania: A six-year-old whose hand was hacked off by men who broke into his home has become the latest albino in Tanzania to be attacked because their body parts are worth thousands of pounds.

Witch doctors will pay as much as $75,000 (Ksh7.3 Million) for a full set of albino body parts, according to a Red Cross report. "After we had received the information our officers immediately put ...