Three people who were arrested and successfully prosecuted by senior superintendent Christopher Katani for unlawfully exhuming a human corpse contrary to Sections 131 (b) and 404 of Malawi’s Penal Code have been convicted by the Blantyre Magistrate’s Court which was .sitting at Muloza Magistrate’s Court in Mulanje district . The court presided by Senior Resident […]
The Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (APAM) has urged the establishment of a local manufacturing company for sunscreen lotion which is used by persons with albinism to protect them from direct sunlight which causes skin infection such as cancer. People with albinism are at risk of skin cancer due to inadequate protection from […]
The Lilongwe magistrate court on Tuesday sentenced eight men to six years’ imprisonment with hard labor (IHL) for pleading guilty to an offence of conspiracy to commit murder. The eight are Jezmond Baluwa, 40 years, Steve Ching`ombe, Isaac Msambalume, Kaluzi Kamangeni, Damison Manyoni (56), Damiano Phiri, 33, and Macdonald Kanyerere,36, all residents of Lilongwe. The […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate court has ordered eight men to languish in jail for 6 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit a felony in order to murder. According to court records the eight men took part in the killing of a 21-year old albino, EnelesiNkhata which took place in Madisi, Dowa in April 2016. […]
Lilongwe Magistrate court has slapped with jail term eight people who blamed Satan for conspiring and killing a woman with albinism in Dowa district last year. The court on Tuesday handed the eight with six years imprisonment with hard labour who conspired and murdered 21-year-old Eneles Nkhata in April 2016 in Madisi, Dowa . The convicts are […]
Malawi Police have confirmed that unknown criminals tampered with the grave of an elderly woman with albinism who was buried over 13 years ago in Rumphi District with an aim to exhume the body. Rumphi Police Station spokesman Victor Khamisi said the woman, Norwin Nkhonjera, died on January 10 2004 at Mbulunji in the district. […]
Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Dr. Jean Kalilani has reiterated government commitment towards promoting rights of people with albinism with a goal of curbing atrocities and attacks directed at them. The minister made the remark Tuesday at this year’s commemoration of the International Albinism Awareness Day at Mkolimbo Ground in Ntcheu. Kalilani […]
The Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (APAM) says it is working towards improving the security and rights of People with Albinism. APAM President, Overstone Mkwapatira Kondowe, said they are looking for innovative solutions to deal with the problem of attacks on people with albinism including exhumation of their body parts. “We are looking […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS) says it has jacked up its efforts to completely stump out abuses and violation of the Rights of people with albinism. The commitment was sounded Wednesday by Commissioner of Police for the Northern Region, Martha Suwedi when she received a donation of assorted items from United Nations Women (UN women), to […]
Malawi Police in Ntchisi are keeping in custody three men suspected of conspiring to kidnap and sale a child with albinism. Police identified the suspects as, Moses Kazonga 34, Kalirani Banda 23, and Bizaliele Amos 39. The three were, during the time of their arrest, looking for a market to sale a two and eight […]
Deeply touched by the on-going untold misery for people born and living with albinism, Malawians in the UK ganged for a common purpose and organised a ‘Dinner and Dance’ aimed at raising funds to help avert the plight. The fundraising Summer Ball, which will take place at Kings Banqueting Suite on Blackberry Lane, Coventry CV2 […]
Pandemonium broke out at Nkumanja Trading centre in Ngabu, Chikhwawa on Saturday when police from Malawi and Mozambique descended on the remote trading centre to exhume a body of a Mozambican nine year old boy of albinism. Demester Chigwenembe, commissioner of police for the southern region said the boy was killed by her own parents […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa are looking for unknown criminals who, on Friday night, attacked a person with albinism, the latest so far. Chikwawa police station officer Davie Chingwalu confrmed the attack of 38-year-old Gift Notisi from Ngabu. The attack comes barely a month after unknown attackers wounded two brothers of albinism in the same area. […]
Malawi Police at Chintheche in Nkhatabay on Friday arrested a 21 year old man Mphatso Phiri for trying to strangle to death an albino lady. Phiri was in company of his two accomplices who are at large and were armed with knives According to Nkhata bay police spokesperson Ignatius Esau, the incident occurred around the […]
A man has been arrested in Lilongwe after him and his accomplices still at large drilled a large hole into the wall of a house of the immediate past president of Albino Association of Malawi Gilbert Daille. Daille, who is a person with albinism, confirmed the attackers came in the wee hours of Friday, around […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have swiftly arrested a man who was found selling human bones near a hotel in the capital city believed to be that of a person with albinism from Mchinji. Mchinji police publicist Kaitano Rodrino said the police followed and arrested 24 year old Alexander James who was selling the human bones […]
Inspector General of Police Lextern Kachama was in the Lower Shire, tightening security for people with albinism following an attack on two brothers with albinism last week in Nsanje. Kachama said the police have now stepped up security for people with albinism after the attack on the two brothers of albinism in Nsanje. Alfred and […]
The Association of Person with Albinism in Malawi (APAM) Monday appeared to government to establish commission of inquiry to investigate where people sale body parts of people with albinism. APAM President Overtones Kondowe said this in Lilongwe during the press briefing on the latest attacks on people with albinism. He said government should put in […]