An albino has been elected as an MP in Tanzania for the first time.
"This win is a victory not only for me but also for all the albinos in this country," Salum Khalfani Bar'wani, from the opposition Cuf party, told the BBC.
Albinos have suffered widespread persecution in Tanzania, where witch doctors say magic potions made with albino body parts can bring good luck.
The government has been campaigning against the discrimination, and an albino MP was appointed two years ago.
But Al-Shymaa Kway-Geer was nominated by the president who is able to appoint 10 unelected members of parliament.
Over the past few years dozens of albinos have been killed in Tanzania, targets of body-snatchers, and the killings have spread to neighbouring Burundi.
In August a court in Tanzania sentenced a Kenyan to 17 years in jail on charges of trying to sell an albino person.
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