Malawi Police in Kasungu are hunting for unknown criminals who over the weekend exhumed remains of a person with albinism from a graveyard at Mnyanja Village, Sub-T/A Chitanthamapiri in the district. Kasungu Police Deputy Public Relations Officer Constable Harry Namwaza confirmed the development. Namaza said the suspected criminals dug out a grave of 14-year-old Martha […]
The Association for Persons with Albinism (APAM) Friday called on Malawi government and all stakeholders to take a tough stand on the continuing killing of people with albinism. APAM made the call at a press briefing held in Lilongwe in conjunction with the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Joint Advocacy Against Persons with Albinism Killing in […]
An association that deals with people with albinism has asked the government to move swiftly in the protection of people with albinism after an abducted nine year boy in Machinga was found with his head only on Wednesday. Police criminal investigation officer Isaac Ndala in Machinga confirmed that the head of Harry Mokoshoni was recovered […]
Four people who were recently convicted of being found in possession of human bones suspected to be of a person living with albinism, have been slapped with jail sentence by the Zomba Principal Resident Magistrate Court seating at Phalombe on Friday. The court has sentenced the four- a woman and three men- to four years imprisonment […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu district are looking for three suspected murderers who allegedly killed a 53-year-old albino woman last month. The law-enforcers are hunting for Masautso Phiri, Bonface Banda and Aaron Mwale, all from Zifa village, S/T/A Chisinga in the district. Kasungu police Public Relations Officer, Edna Mzingwitsa told Nyasa Times, the suspects had tricked […]
Malawi Police Service at Nayuchi in Machinga are keeping in custody 25 year old Usuman Bizwick for allegedly killing 35 year old Meya Walusa on Lake Chilwa after the two picked a quarrel over trivial matters. Police have confirmed the death, saying medical examination at Nayuchi Health Center indicated that Meya died due to severe […]
The Zomba Principal Resident Magistrate Court seating at Phalombe on Thursday convicted four people who were found in possession of human bones suspected to be of a person living with albinism. Phalombe police arrested the four- a woman and three men- on Monday night of 4th January, 2016 following a tip-off from a businessman the suspects […]
Police at Balaka in eastern Malawi are hunting for unknown criminals who have tampered with the albino grave in the district. Balaka Police Publicist Joseph Sauka said the incident happened during the night of 14th and 15th January 2016 at Mwawa Village in the area of Traditional Authority Amidu in the same district. Sauka said […]
Police in Phalombe district are keeping in custody four people for being found with human bones suspected to be of a person with albinism. The four- a woman and three men- were arrested on Monday (4th January, 2016) night following a tip-off from a businessman the suspected had approached to sell the bones. One of the arrested […]
Malawi Police in Phalombe district have finally arrested a 29-year-old man, Lawo Sambani accused of masterminding the brutal attack on a 17-year-old boy with albinism last month. Sambani’s capture comes barely a week after the arrest of his accomplices Kingstone Mtiye, Mose Phillipo and Aubrey Maudedi. The three confessed to the law-enforcers to have brutally […]
Malawi Police in Phalombe district have managed to arrest three men who have since confessed to have brutally hacked a 17-year-old boy with albinism last month. Police have arrested Kingstone Mtiye,40, Mose Phillipo, 25, and 26-year-old Aubrey Maudedi who, on the night of Sunday 29th November, nearly killed Alfred Chikalo with intent to sell his […]
State prosecutors on Monday started parading witnesses in a K500 million heist case, one of the biggest bank robberies in Malawi. Prosecutors paraded two bank employees who said the suspected thieves came into the bank and forced them to open a cash chest with the money which was due for banking with the Reserve Bank […]
A 17-year-old boy with albinism is currently in pain at Holly Family Mission Hospital after he was brutally hacked by unknown assailants in Phalombe district. The victim, Alfred Chikalo of Mnasi village T/A Mkhumba, Phalombe was rescued from the attack by well wishers on the night of Sunday 29th November, 2015, police have disclosed. The […]
Kasungu magistrates’ court on Thursday fined two people K20, 000 each or on default 18 months in jail for being found digging a grave where an albino lady was buried some several years ago. As the magistrate was metting out the sentence, members of parliament, led by Machinga east legislator Esther Jolobola were seeking to […]
People with albinism have taken the government to task over its failure to establish a special court that would mete out harsh sentences to those that attack albinos. Boniface Massa, president of the Association of People with Albinism said the government had promised to set up the court in Zomba. “The government’s failure to set […]
Four men have been arrested in Kasungu district for allegedly tresspassing in a graveyard and attempted to exhume bones of an albino. National police said the suspects, Peter Kamanga,26, Shenrick Kamanga 47 years old, Yohane Maliseni,18, and Yamikani Phiri,26, had conspired to exhume and sell the bones at K10million to undisclosed buyer. The incident has […]
A 37 year old step father and 31 year old accomplice have been arrested in Mzimba for conspiring to sell a four-year-old albino boy at a price tag of K20 million, police have confirmed. National police spokesperson Rhoda Manjolo has disclosed that Christopher Kumwenda,37 and Lusungu Sere,25 tried to convince 25-yearold Maria Mtengo who is […]
Mzuzu Principal Resident Magistrate has adjourned to September 22 2015 hearing of a case in which a primary school teacher Phillip Ngulube is accused of attempting to sell a person with albinism. The court has heard that Prosecutors from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) assigned to handle such cases were in Karonga for similar duties. The 21 year old […]