The Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) has pulled out of presidential task force on people with albinism membership after Homeland Security minister Nicholas Dausi said the resurgent attackshas not yet reached crisis levels. Dausi said the attacks on people with albinism has not reached crisis levels to call for vigil at […]
The High Court sitting in Chitipa has convicted a man who chopped off an arm of a person with albinism and run away with it. Judge Thom Ligowe has reserved the sentencing. The court heard that Joseph Ndimbwa frantically knocked on the house door of Lucia Kayange, a woman with albinism whilst shooting for help […]
Malawi Police in Nkhotakota have arrested a 36 year old man for intimidating a person with albinism. Central region police spokesperson Noriah Chihana Chimala said Stain Matope threatened to sell off the person with albinism. “The person with albinism was walking and the suspect shouted to him that one day he would sell the person […]
Umodzi Party president, Professor John Chisi is demanding Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General (IG) Rodney Jose to resign for allegedly failing in his role to stop abductions and killings of people with albinism. Chisi said the killings are avoidable but police are lacking a strategy and have taken a back seat in dealing with the […]
Government has challenged president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera, to expose the syndicate he claims is behind the gruesome abductions and murdering of persons with albinism. At a news conference in Lilongwe on Sunday, Chakwera alleged that there was a syndicate of powerful people in the corridors of power behind the killings and abductions of […]
President Peter Mutharika was visibly charged after commissioning the multi-million World Bank –funded Kamuzu Barrage and Bridge at Liwonde Community Ground in Machinga when he hit back at critics of his administration’s alleged failure to protect persons with albinism who are living dangerously. “It is sad that other politicians want to gain cheap political mileage […]
Association for People with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) officials have called on authorities to relocate Goodson Makanjira’s sister, a 12-year-old girl who is also a person with albinism. Apam president Overston Kondowe said this in Dedza when his association with the state funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) visited the home of Goodson Makanjira, the […]
Kamuzu Academy Alumni Association (KAAA) has added its own voice on the public outcry condemning the barbaric and heinous acts being perpetrated against people with albinism in Malawi and have offered a K1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of killers of perpetrators of the ritual murders. The grouping in a […]
Goodson Makanjira has become another cause for temporal anger. Soon, the 14-year-old will become nothing but another statistic: the recent albino child to be abducted. Snatched from the belly of his parents at an ungodly hour by people unknown, his disapperance met at the brutal hands of merciless deprived souls who chop off human bones […]
Joint Civil Society Platform on Governance has called for the quick implementation of National Action Plan on persons with albinism that was developed last year in consultation with various stakeholders from the public and private sectors intending to guide national efforts to promote and protect rights of persons with albinism in Malawi. Speaking during the news […]
Through his post on social media, Facebook on February 14, Samuel Lwara has linked two Members of Parliament voted into the august House during the first general elections in 1994 as possible suspects to the links of the killings of people with Albinism. Lwara did not mention their names but he gave hints that before […]
Two persons with albinism, who are vying for parliamentary seats in the May 21 Treipartite Elections, have asked the police to swiftly investigate reports that the killings of people with albinism are always on the rise when elections are due. This follows a study which the UN commissioned in some countries in Africa where the […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS)say a body which was found in Dedza on Friday with dismembered body parts is not that of a 14-year-old person with albinism Goodson Makanjira who was abducted this week. MPS spokesperson James Kadadzera said this after some radio stations carried the story which also dominated the social media. “We are still […]
President of the Association of People with Albinism (Apam) Overstone Kondowe visited Vice President Saulos Chilima’s Aare 12 Residence where he delivered a tearful speech about the desperation of people with albinism who are being killed like animals. In a moving speech, Kondowe, who kept referring to Chilima as ‘Mr. President’ said people with albinism […]
A 14-year-boy with albinism who was abducted on wee hours of Thursday in Dedza is now feared dead after a body was found near to the village where he was abducted from. Chief Makanjira, an uncle to Goodson Makanjira has confirmed that a body of a boy with albinism has been found in the village […]
President Peter Mutharika has hit back at opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera for seeking to “score cheap political gains” over the crisis of killings and abductions of persons with albinism in the country. Chakwera, who recently resigned as Leader of Opposition in Parliament to pave the way for his presidential candidature, told […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General, Rodney Jose, says the law enforcers will investigate reports that attacks on people with albinism are always on the increase when elections are due. Jose said this in Lilongwe when he opened a training for senior police officers on how to deal with political violence and has been funded […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera says if voted into power during the May 21 elections, he will end attacks on people with albinism within a month. Chakwera said this at a news conference at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe on the recent attacks on people with albinism. The MCP leader said the Democratic Progressive […]