Inside the centre where Tanzania's outcast albinos find refuge from murderers who kill them for their body parts...

In a land where they are despised, feared and even hunted for their body parts, the albinos of Tanzania have found a refuge that offers them a glimmer of hope for the future.

The Kabanaga Protectorate Centre in the town of Kabanga in the north-west of the East African country, close to the Burundi border, caters to the nation's albinos, who are known as the 'tribe of ghosts', 'zeros' or 'the invisibles'.

They have suffered appalling treatment at the hands of their own neighbours and are murdered for their body parts, which are believed to bring good fortune and cure all manner of ills.

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One of the albinos is 17-year-old Angel, who was visited by her mother from a remote and poor part of the country for the first time in four years.

When she was born her father called her 'a gift from God'.

But his joy was not that of a new father - he wanted to butcher the girl and sell her body parts for thousands of dollars, a fortune to the average family in Tanzania. Full story...

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