The Senior Resident Magistrate Court sitting at Ntaja on Wednesday sentenced Ngunga Sitande because he was laughing when one of his two friends, who are still at large, called Innocent Simba of 28 years of age, “money”. A 39-year-old man in Machinga district, south-eastern Malawi has been given a three months jail term with hard labor as […]
UK-based Malawian female cleric and activist, Evangelist Elizabeth Kalonga has vehemently reproached the ongoing senseless ritual killings on people with albinism in Malawi, describing it as ‘pure evil’ saying that the country swiftly needs divine intervention. Kalonga urged all stakeholders in the country to gang up to stop the vile act of killing innocent people with albinism , […]
Citizen Alliance, Eye for Development with support from Malawi Justice Network and State of the Union(SOTU) has urged Government to do more in protecting people with albinism saying. Citizen Alliance Vice Chair, Thokozani Mkawa, was speaking in Mangochi during national review conference on campaign against the killing people with albinism. Mkawa said it is unfortunate […]
Children with albinism who dropped out of school due to fears of abductions and killings can now return to class as the government has agreed to enroll them in public boarding schools. Vice president of Association of People with Albinism Alex Machila told a meeting in Mangochi that it is now good news that the […]
A 47 year old man identified as Mussa Kachepa will spend the next 10 years behind bars after he was found guilty of being found in possession human bones contrary to Section 16 of the Anatomy Act. Kachepa was arrested on 10th June together with Muhammed James after one of his wives tipped the police […]
Musicians across the country over the weekend dished out music as way of sensitizing people on the abductions and killings of people with albinism. Minister of Sports and Youth Grace Chiumia was on Saturday in Mzuzu where the musicians there showed rare talent in composition of the songs to fight the abductions and killings. “I […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) have passed a motion moved by Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) to amend the Anatomy Act to attract stiffer penalties for perpetrators of abduction and killing of people with albinism. Most MPs spokes in supported the bill, saying people found guilty of killing persons with albinism should […]
Mulanje South parliamentarian-cum-comedian Bon Kalindo popularly known as Winiko has blasted donors specifically global human rights body, Amnesty International “to go to hell” with their anti-death penalty campaign, saying Malawi needs to execute killers of people with albinism. Kalindo, who organised a protest march to National Assembly with an aim to force the members of […]
Malawi on Thursday rose up to comic scenes of “a naked parade” of parliamentarian Bon Kalindo who has roped in activist Billy Mayaya lobbying for death sentence for albino killers. They marched from Area 18 roundabout to City Centre demanding death sentence for albino killers. Led by comedian-cum-politician Kalindo, the comic parade has been widely […]
Malawians have taken up on social media to express their disappointment over Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo deceit. Kalindo, a renowned comedian himself known as ‘Winiko’, had been telling local radios and newspapers that he would match naked on Thursday in protest against the increased abductions and killings of people with albinism in the country. […]
Mulanje South member of Parliament (MP) Bon Kalindo (Democratic Progressive Party-DPP), on Thursday staged a ‘half-naked’ protest in the capital Lilongwe against the abductions and killings of people with albinism. Kalindo, who is leading a movement planning to demonstrate in favour of concrete action against perpetrators of attacks on people with albinism, had initially planned the ‘naked’ march […]
The chairman of the national technical committee on abuse of persons with Albinism in Malawi Dr. Hertherwick Ntaba Monday, commend the job that the nation is doing in providing security as well as informing and educating the masses against the atrocities of people with albinism. Speaking in Lilongwe at a news conference, Ntaba said though […]
Member of Parliament for Mulanje South, Bon Kalindo (Democratic Progressive Party –DPP) has claimed that the criminal gangs abducting and often killing persons with albinism in broad daylight and in the dead of night, are part of a deadly political strategy. by some opposition political parties to keep the country ungovernable. He said some politicians […]
Malawi Police have arrested a suspected buyer of albino bones in the Eastern Region District of Machinga , a woman identifies as Mary Gumbo. Gumbo offered to buy albino bones or bones of anybody who suffered from Leprosy and two men who were caught with human bones. Machinga Police Publicist Dave Sulumba said Gumbo hired […]
Information minister Patricia Kaliati has ruled out that government would implement the death penalty on killers of people with albinism, saying doing so would be contravening international human rights instruments Malawi signed. Kaliati’s comments come hot in the heels of calls by Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo to unleash the death penalty on the killers […]
A 33 year old man sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment for attempted murder on a boy with albinism, has started serving his term in prison, signalling his first step on a life-long prison term without parole. Malawi newspapers on Thursday flashed his story as the main front page news just as electronic media did […]
Malawi Parliament Thursday weighed in on calls to tighten the country’s laws when it adopted a motion to review some sections in the Penal Code and the Anatomy Act in a bid to stop the rampant killings of people with albinism. Member of Parliament for Dowa East Harry Chipeni moved the motion saying shortfalls in […]
An opposition parliamentarian on Thursday nearly sent the House into fresh turmoil when he claimed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders were behind the brutal killings of persons with albinism. Lilongwe Msozi MP Vitus Dzoole Mwale claimed he had evidence to back his allegation. He was contributing to a private member’s motion by Dowa […]