Albinos in the east African nation of Burundi have left their homes over fears they will be killed by people wanting to sell their body parts in nearby Tanzania.  At least four are currently under the watch of police in Ruyigi, reports the BBC. The actions come after an Albino girl was murdered in August and after two murdered albinos were found with their legs and arms missing. There have been 26 albinos killed in Tanzania in under a year. Witchdoctors, who believe they use albino body parts to create potions to make people rich, are thought to be behind the bizarre killings. In fact, after the killing of a teen albino, six of her attackers came back to the murder scene to get her body parts. After they were arrested, they told police they wanted to sell her parts in Tanzania. There are an estimated 200 albinos currently living in Burundi.

Thieves steal food from Haiti’s needy. Thieves recently stole food that was supposed to go to Haiti’s storm victims and tried to sell it, reports Reuters. Authorities in the nation devastated by four back-to-back tropical storms, raided three storehouses of the stolen food on Tuesday. Officials were tipped off by residents who were upset that rice, that was supposed to be free for people who needed it, ended up being sold for profit. “A lot of people were buying the rice because it was much cheaper compared to prices on the regular market. You can read on the bag ‘Donated by Taiwan’ and on some other bags we read, ‘U.S. Rice,” said Yvon Jerome, mayor of Carrefour, the city where the crime took place. The food will be given out to needy families again, the mayor said. The consecutive storms that battered Haiti, which was already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, killed at least 800 people and left almost the entire town of Gonaives under water. Police are still investigating and looking for suspects in the food thievery but are still unsure how big the operation was.

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