Malawi police in Blantyre have rescued a girl with albinism Linda Mazanjo, 21 who was abducted on Thursday last week in the district. The girl was reported missing on July 26 and police found her in house at Bvumbwe Trading Centre in Thyolo, fit and well, Chilenga police officer-in-charge Chrissy Mwale said. Mwale said Mazanjo […]
Government has sternly warned that the police would arrest relatives who sell their relations with albinism, saying the trend continues despite huge civic education campaign. Home Affairs and Internal Security minister Cecelia Chazama said enough is enough, the police would now crack the whip on the relatives of people with albinism who continue to sell […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa District have arrested two men for being found in possession of human bones suspected to be of a person with albinism. Chikwawa Police Station Public Relations Officer, Constable Foster Benjamin said he suspects, Lloyd Chakwamba, 34, and Luka Kadendere, 32, were arrested on Saturday at Mbande Village soon after Mwanza River in the […]
The High Court sitting in Chitipa has found a man who allegedly hacked off a hand of woman with albinism and run away with it with a case to answer of attempted murder. Judge Thomson Ligowe said the state prosecution proved beyond doubt that the defendant Joseph Ndimbwa hacked the hand of the woman Lucia […]
Malawi Police have arrested a ruling Democrtaic Progressive Party (DPP) constituency governor for Phalombe North West Patrick Chinawa and two others as part of on-going investigations to find out what happened to 12-year-old albino teenager Joseph Kachingwe who went missing on after attending independence day celebrations on 6 July. National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera told […]
A 28 year old man has been slapped with a two year jail sentence for allegedly calling her albino wife real ‘deal’. Central Region Police Deputy Spokesperson Jessica Mphasa identified the convict as Amos Musonkho who hails from M’biza Village in the Area of Traditional Authority Chikumbu in the Southern Region District of Mulanje. According […]
Malawi police say they have arrested the mother of the missing boy in Phalombe, the step father who confessed to have given him poison and three other close relations but his body is yet to be recovered. Police spokesperson James Kadadzera said the police have since charged the five with conspiracy to murder and acts […]
Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (Spam) has expressed shock that the 12 year boy with albinism in Phalombe has been found dead and that his step father has confessed to police that he poisoned him. Apam president Overtone Kondowe said the step father, who has been arrested, has confessed to have poisoned the […]
Malawi Police in Phalombe have embarked on an intensive manhunt for a 12 year old boy with albinism who went missing on Republic Day. Phalombe police spokesperson Innocent Moses said the boy Joseph Kachingwe left his home on July 6 to celebrate republic commemorations with his friends. “Since then, he has not returned to his […]
The High Court will hear the case of 12 people including a Catholic Priest, police officer and medical practitioner accused of killing a person with albinism, Mac Donald Masambuka , after the Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Zomba has made the referral. Senior Resident Magistrate, Paul Chiotcha said that the 12 accused people will answer […]
Malawi government has launched a four year National Action Plan on Persons with Albinism which aims at arresting atrocities against persons with albinism and enhancing their social welfare. Launching the Action Plan on Saturday at Mwenilondo Primary School in Karonga, Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Dr. Jean Kalilani on underscores the importance […]
Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (APAM) has requested government to consider providing political space for people with albinism in the country. National Coordinator for APAM, Boniface Massa said this Monday in Lilongwe in an interview ahead of Malawi’s commemoration of International Albinism day on June 23, 2018 at Mwenilondo Primary School ground in […]
Members of Parliament meeting in Lilongwe have expressed concerns over the lack of protection and delay of justice in cases of violence against people with albinism in the country with former State vice-president Khumbo Kachali requesting for speedy trials of suspected ritual killers. Kachali, who is legislator for the area (Mzimba South West), asked Minister […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Cecilia Chazama has said Malawi Police has a six-point safety strategy to foil abduction and albino ritual killing in the country. In a ministerial statement presenter in Parliament in Lilongwe on Fridayon the status of cases handled by the Malawi Police related to attacks on persons living with albinism, […]
A young woman has gone into hiding after threats following a police leak that she is a whistle blower in the killing of a person with albinism in Machinga, Macdonald Masambuka. Elina Enoch, 27, says she has been receiving threats after she revealed to police the suspected killers of Masambuka who include a catholic priest, […]
People with albinism have come out to complain that 15 case files of deaths and attacks on albinos have gone missing within the offices of police prosecutors. The allegation comes a few months after a legislator Esther Jolobola made a similar allegation in parliament but minister of Home Affairs Cecilia Chazama dismissed it. President of […]
Machinga East Member of Parliament Esther Jolobala has claimed 15 case files involving killings of people with albinism killings has gone missing. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Jolobala said the missing of the case files meant the murder cases could not be continued in courts. She therefore said the conduct of the police on the matter […]
United Nations Women (UNW) said persons with albinism need to be provided with necessary support and protected from all forms of discrimination. UNW Executive Board President, Ivana Pajevic said this Wednesday in Dedza in the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Kaphuka where her organization is implementing UN Human Rights Window albinism project. She noted that […]