Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times Wealth seekers have killed yet another person with albinism, bringing the number of those killed to 18 so far as civil society groups presented a petition to the Office of the President and Cabinet to stop the killings. Ntcheu Police spokesperson Gift Matewere identified the deceased as Fletcher Masina, 38, […]
Chancy Namadzunda –Nyasa Times Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country have said the country has been dead asleep to act on the rising incidences of attacks, abductions, and killings of people with albinism with calls for life imprisonment for people who attack albinos. The CSOs have further given government a 21 day ultimatum to […]
Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times Civil Society’s Action Week kicked off on Monday and will run until May 27 with strong warning to people with albinism killers and a petition to parliament to legislate laws that would protect people with albinism wherever they can be, any time. Edward Chileka Banda, chairman of Citizen Alliance, organizers […]
Wanga Gwede –Nyasa Times Leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera has said not enough is being done to protect the people with albinism in Malawi who are targeted for killing and their bodies mutilated, saying government should act and not lip service. In his address to parliament in response to State-of-the-nation-address delivered by President Mutharika on […]
Human rights activists are scheduled to storm parliament on May 25, the African Union Day, to express their concern over the continued abductions and killings of people with albinism. Edward Chileka Banda, Chairperson of Citizen Alliance, an umbrella body of non state human rights organizations in Malawi said the African Union Day is an ideal […]
Catholic Church Archbishop of Lilongwe Diocese, His Grace Tarcisius Ziyaye has condemned the killing of albinos, saying Malawi as a God fearing nation, need to respect human life. Speaking when he presided over an Open day for Malawi Primary Justice organised by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) on Thursday Ziyaye said killing […]
Some Malawian lawmakers at a National Stakeholders Conference held in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, on Tuesday, have proposed tit-for-tat justice to end the senseless murderers of person with albinism by hanging all albino killers, it has been reported . The conference was convened by civil society organisations to brainstorm strategies aimed at ending the abductions […]
Human rights groups in the country have asked the state to immediately appeal all cases it lost to abductors and killers of people with albinism to send a strong message to them that they have started a prolonged battle which Malawians will never give up. This was resolved at the end of a meeting by […]
The Super League Association of Malawi (Sulom) has joined the campaign against the persecution of people with albinism in the country. This follows calls by government and several human rights bodies condemning such barbaric acts which have been on a high recently. In a press statement signed by SULOM’s General Secretary Williams Banda released ahead […]
The news that about 17 people of albinism have so far been abducted killed and some mutilated in Malawi is heartbreaking, tear-jerking, very shocking and sad. With these brutal killings one wonders if at all the once warm heart of Africa is the best and safe place for Albinos to live. That each week we […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) acting president Uladi Mussa has once again hit at the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), accusing it of losing focus and direction as evidenced by what he said the increasing numbers of the killings of people with albinism and persistent shortage of food. “The government was supposed to register each and […]
Relations are the ones on forefront fuelling the abduction and killing of people with albinism aside exhuming their body parts, Malawi police have said. And while concurring with the police, Association of Persons with Albinism (APA) has also blamed the increased albino killings on conmen. Speaking during Tikhale Tcheru programme monitored on MBC television, National […]
About 12 children with albinism have stopped learning at St. Mary’s Primary School in Karonga, leaving only two. Authorities at St. Mary’s Primary School have confirmed the development saying the drop outs have increased in the wake of attacks against persons with albinism in some parts of the country. So far Malawi has registered 66 […]
Residents of Msemwe village Traditional Authority (T/A) Simphasi in Mchinji woke up in awe on Monday morning when they discovered the body of a 20-year-old man with albinism exhumed from the grave. Patrick Katutu, a teacher at Mbachundu Primary School which is near the graveyard told Mana that villagers were surprised to see a coffin […]
The opposition People’s Party (PP) has on Sunday tipped the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government to embark on registration campaign on people with albinism as a way of knowing their homes and numbers at the district level in order to provide their maximum security. According to the PP acting President Uladi Mussa the government […]
Two Mozambican herbalists have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Malawian 17-years-old albino Fletcher Machinjiri late last month by convicted Malawian nationals Vuto Biswick and Emmanuel Robert. Dedza Police Deputy Piblicist Cassim Manda said the arrest of the two herbalists Tafatatha Chithanyula (60 years old) and Madalitso Tafatatha was the done after […]
Two men who have been sentenced to 25 years in prison in Malawi for participating in the process that led to the murder of a 17-year-old with albinism for his body parts face death penalty as they have now been committed to the High Court to answer murder charges. The two, 26-year-old Vuto Bizwick and 20-year-old Manuel Robert, […]
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has vowed to end the sudden upsurge in macabre killings of people with albinism and has since ordered more action and vigilance on the part of law enforcers. Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin, have faced attacks for their body parts, which witchdoctors believe bring good luck and wealth. But […]