Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare , Patricia Kaliati has expressed “concern “ over increasing rates of defilement and child trafficking in the country, the vices it says frustrates efforts to properly develop the children into full potential. Speaking the during commemoration of 2015 International Literacy Day held at Yamba Primary School, in […]
Malawi police in Phalombe district have rescued 14 children who were being trafficked to Mozambique. The law-enforcers have since arrested Justine Chikuni, 25, 35-year-old Charles Mathewe and six others who were trafficking the children to Mozambique on bicycles. National police Public Relations Officer, Rhoda Manjolo told Nyasa Times they managed to rescue the children and […]
Child trafficker Mateyu Sali Kuchepa, 40, who was convicted by Blantyre Magistrate Court has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for each of the nine counts of child trafficking which he was answering. Senior resident magistrate Viva Nyimba ruled that Kuchepa will serve the sentence concurrently because the offences were committed as part of the […]
A South African team comprising of the Department of Social Development’s International Social Services and Interpol on Monday arrived in Malawi to repatriate a 14-year-old minor and a 20-year-old youth‚ who were allegedly abducted and trafficked to Malawi. An unnamed Malawian woman took the siblings, who are from Mpumalanga‚ from the custody of their grandmother […]
Police in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga are keeping in custody two Malawian men for kidnapping two children aged seven and nine on their way to school with intention to sell them to a Tanzanian witch doctor based in Kaporo, northern part of the district. Chilumba Police Officer-in-Charge, Billy Chimbonga says the two are Mzondi […]
Malawi young girls are selling their bodies in shebeens to earn money and Minister of Gender Patricia Kaliati has since said her ministry would investigate the matter and ensure that the perpetrator faces the law. Some teens as young as 16 openly admit to prostituting themselves to “sugar daddies” for cash. The shocking revelation follows […]
A Network Against Human Trafficking is urging Malawi Members of Parliament to pass legislation on human trafficking which is expected to be tabled in Parliament this Thursday. Addressing the news conference at Norwegian Church Aid offices in Lilongwe, Wednesday, Habiba Osman, taskforce chairperson for the Network Against Human Trafficking, said that human trafficking is a form […]
For five months of 2014, two young Malawian girls—age 12 and 13—were forced to work as prostitutes in a Blantyre bottle store after being lured from their homes in Zomba with K500 and the promise of well-paid household jobs. In September, one of them had secretly stored up K6 000 for transit and had the […]
The 13 children who were abducted recently by a business man were on Thursday turned back from Mozambique where they were found. Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati, disclosed the return of the children in an interview with Malawi News Agency on Friday. She said the ministry got a tip from […]
An eighteen year old boy is in Police custody at Balaka district for allegedly offering for sell his 10-year old blood brother. Station Operations Officer for Balaka Police Station Assistant Superintendent Gideon Chisale says the suspect Sole Sekani 18, who is a fourth born in a family of eight wanted to sell his 10 year […]
Police in central district of Ntcheu has arrested a 36 year old woman for attempting to sell her own daughter in order to settle a K300,000 debt. The suspect, identified as Tabiya Zingwa, of Kasale village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kwataine, attempted to her daughter at K350 to some business tycoon in the district. Ntcheu Police […]
Nine people are in police custody on suspicion of trafficking seven children below the age of 17 from Malawi to neighbouring Mozambique. Eastern Region Police assistant public relations officer Constable Otilia Kumanga said five of the suspects are Mozambicans from Zambezia Province whereas the four are Malawians from Senior Chief Chikowi in Zomba. She identified […]
International Labour Organisation (ILO) Chief Technical Advisor in Malawi, Khalid Hassan, has said combating child labour is the key to the country’s achievement of quality education and reducing poverty. He was speaking in Lilongwe on the sidelines of Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (YECE) launch of its Strategic Plan for 2014-18. “Child labour should be […]
A suspected child trafficker who has been at large after a court in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga gave him bail in a case he was accused of trafficking 26 Muslim children under the pretext of enrolling them in a school in Tanzania has been spotted in Zanzibar. Impeccable sources from Zanzibar told Nyasa Times that […]
A strong call has gone out to traditional leaders in the country to take a leading role in the fight against early marriages. The call from Child Protection and Victim Support Unit Co-ordinator for Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka Police Constable Donna Kaoloka follows an increase in reported cases of early marriages in the district. […]
Abdul Malick Audrey of Senior Traditional Authority Nkaya in Balaka whom Malawi Police arrested on May 4 2013 for allegedly trafficking 26 Muslim students to Zanzibar has said that the State wrongly charged him because Immigration procedures are not part of section 79(2) of the Child Care, Protection and Justice Act. According to section 79 […]
First Grade Magistrate Court in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga has adjourned a case of suspected child trafficker Abdul Malick Audrey to 18 June for judgment after the suspect failed to produce three witnesses he promised to bring to court for defense. Lawyer for the suspect George Kadzipatike told the court that three witnesses which are from the southern […]
A First Grade Magistrate’s court in Malawi’s northern region border district of Karonga has granted bail to a suspected child trafficker Abdul Mallick Audrey on conditions that he must give the court 100 thousand Malawi kwacha and two traceable witnesses which each should give twenty thousand kwacha. First Grade Magistrate’s Chakaka Nyirenda ruled that the […]