A Malawian teacher suspected of attempting to sell an albino schoolgirl for US$10,000 arrested Tuesday, police said, as the country battles to stop albino killings fuelled by superstition. Primary school teacher Phillip Ngulube was with the girl when he was arrested in the northern city of Mzuzu and has been charged with abduction with intent […]
Police in the Malawi northern border district, Karonga, Tuesday rescued the two suspects of albino abductions from an angry mob. after the First Magistrate Chakaka Nyirenda adjourned the case. Fishani Mtambo aged 33 from Mukwavi Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mwenewenya in Chitipa and Wamisi Kawumba 32 of Cheyama Village in the Traditional […]
Cases of attacking or abducting albinos have now resurfaced in Malawi with a 11 year old albino boy battling for his life at Karonga District hospital, after two men kidnapped him and tried to cut his throat and right arm at Ipyana, in the district and albino body parts which were found at Pazani village in […]
Malawi has launched an investigation into the root cause of a recent spate of murders of albinos, a senior official said Saturday, as the country marked international albinism awareness day. There was a need to educate citizens to “change their mindset (and understand) that albinos do not have any magical powers”, Isaac Katopola, deputy secretary […]
A 40-years-old woman has been arrested in Phalombe district for allegedly exhuming bones of an albino who died three years ago. Magret Gelezi who was arrested on Thursday, is said to have committed the offence together with her son, Goodson Salure who is currently on the run. Phalombe police publicist, Augustus Nkhwazi told Nyasa Times that […]
Malawi police on Wednesday said they had arrested four people suspected of murdering an albino man five months ago to sell his bones for witchcraft. Symon Mukota was abducted from his village at night in December, with police accusing his suspects of killing him, removing his bones and burying his remains in a riverbed. The four […]
A 29-year-old man is in Police custody at Kanengo for allegedly threatening a person with albinism that he (the man) would make the latter disappear one day. Kanengo Police spokesperson Esther Mkwanda identified the suspect as John Chikadza of Chigwe Village, Traditional Authority Kabudula in Lilongwe. Mkwanda alleged that Chikadza had more than once threatened […]
The Anglican Church in Malawi has appealed to all Malawians to take part in protecting people living with albinism and reporting any criminal acts by any suspects in our society. The Church said it is sickened with reports that people living with albinism are still living in fear because some segments in the society continue […]
The Malawian Civil Society organisations have reported to the United Nations in Geneva the recent trends of attacks on people living with Albinism owhose body parts are prized in black magic, calling for more domestic and international response to end the malpractice which threatens human dignity. Malawi’s 10,000 albinos are in danger, as witch doctors claim “their limbs […]
Malawi has ordered police to shoot “dangerous criminals” who attack albinos in order to sell their body parts for witchcraft. “Shoot every criminal who is violent when caught red-handed abducting people with albinism,” the country’s police chief Lexen Kachama told officers at the weekend, according to local media. Six albinos have been killed in the […]
The rising wave of abductions and killings of albinos in the country, more especially in the Southern Region Districts of Machinga, Balaka and Mangochi have compelled Machinga East Member of Parliament, Esther Jailosi Jolobala to ask the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) to intervene. The three districts are under CCJP’s Mangochi Diocese; where […]
Mangochi Diocese of the Catholic Church through its arm, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), has intensified efforts aimed at protecting albinos who are facing various attacks in the country. CCJP diocesan secretary Bruno Banda said they want to work with other stakeholders such as the Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) and […]
Leader of opposition Lazarous Chakwera has expressed concern with the rising insecurity and is calling on new Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama to intensify efforts to arrest the situation. “It is sad that as I speak the security situation in the country has deteriorated to levels we have never seen before. Malawians no longer have […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has directed all security agencies in the country to be on high alert to catch and punish those behind a series of albino killings. He told a news conference in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday that the attacks on albinos are barbaric and ordered security agencies to intensify a manhunt for […]
A social justice and advocacy arm of the Catholic Church in Malawi, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) says is deeply worried and unsatisfied with the deafening silence and passive approach which the government has taken on the problems faced by people with albinism in Malawi. It its strongly worded statement issued Wednesday, the […]
Barely few days after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned violent attacks against people with albinism in Malawi, an 11-year-old albino boy escaped possible death when some unknown criminals attempted to abduct him in the eastern region district of Balaka. According to Balaka police publicist Sub Inspector Joseph Sauka, the incident happened at […]
Albino people living in Malawi are in a state of fear after a recent spate of attacks. Some have been abducted, while others have killed and had their body parts removed. About fifteen albinos have been reported abducted and killed since January in various parts of the country, many of them in the eastern district […]
Police in Malawi said Thursday they had arrested a man for trying to strangle to death a 16-year-old albino boy, with a rights group reporting six murders in the last three months. The suspect had been on the run after he was caught trying to kill the 16-year-old at his home in February. In the […]