Malawi is ranked in the top 20 for having highest rate of child marriages, with 50 per cent of girls marrying before they reach 18 years- old, putting the country at number five of the hotspots countries. The revelation was made on Tuesday during the first ever national symposium in Addressing Child Marriage in Malawi which […]
The First Grade Magistrate Court in the northern city of Mzuzu has slapped 32 year old man a 114 months imprisonment with hard labor sentence for scalding his son’s hands because he had tested his meal without authority. The convict, Master Zulu’s pleas for a non-custodial sentence failed to impress the court to let him […]
A 12-year-old Malawian boy is in great anguish after his biological father allegedly burnt his hands in a hot frying pan for testing his rice pudding. The father, 32-year-old Master Zulu, has since been apprehended by police and charged with an offence of intending to cause grievous body harm which is contrary to section 353 […]
Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCC) across the country are set to benefit from a donation of toys from Lego, a Danish toy maker, under a ‘Lego toys for Malawian children’ project that was launched in Lilongwe last week. The project, which is being implemented by Dan Church Aid (DCA) and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) will […]
Quality of Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of HIV exposed infants and DNA services remains a challenge in the fight of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission in the districts of Mwanza and Chiradzulu due to unavailability of a DNA at the district hospital, Kalondolondo established. During a Kalondolondo presentation on PMTCT at Mwanza Hotel which was […]
The Child Justice Court has attributed increased children’s sexual activity to pornographic films and adults indulging in sex in the presence of children. Magistrate Esmie Tembenu of Blantyre Child Justice Court also revealed that increased numbers of children were also victims of child traffickers and all forms of exploitations. Tembenu is quoted in the Sunday […]
A Member of Parliament for Nkhatabay North East, David Yohane Kaweche, has been dragged to court accused of failing to maintain the child he conceived with a former student of Malawi College of Accountancy, Jane Mwalwanda. The lawmaker has since asked for an out of court settlement but Magistrate Anthony Chimphinda Banda has warned that […]
An NGO and Government official caused a storm during the court proceedings in Zomba, in a case of child defilement where a Malawian of Asian origin Abdul Sattar Hassan is answering charges of indecent assault and defiling a 14 year old girl contrary to section 138 and 137(1) of the Penal Code. The NGO and […]
Malawi shall soon establish a state-of-the art International Centre for Child Wellness courtesy of Accordia Global Health Foundation, an American Organization. Accorda’s President Dr. Warner Greene who led a delegation that had an audience with President Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace on Monday, disclosed this to the media in Blantyre. Greene said Malawi deserves to […]
Hundreds of street children and perpetual beggars in Malawi’s major cities and towns have ignored an ultimatum government issued to them to be off the streets with some challenging that nobody has the knack to drag them out of their “revenue collecting” base. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare reiterated recently that street […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court has sentenced to 36 months (three years) imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) Saulosi Samson for sexually assaulting a four year old girl. Samson, 18 years old and hails from Kalumbi village, T/A Ndamera in Nsanje was arrested on November 29, 2012 and charged with rape of a child under the age […]
Street begging remains banned under the laws of Malawi, a senior government official has said, announcing plans of sweeping all street children and perpetual beggars off the streets. Principal Secretary (PS) for Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Dr. Mary Shawa told reporters in Lilongwe that her ministry had obtained a court order to carry out […]
Child Justice Magistrate, Esmie Tembenu has appealed to the police to consider prosecuting men who abandon the responsibility of child care. “I am aware that women have been going to victim support units (VSU) complaining that their husbands abandoned them and their children yet they have no money for maintenance but no one has been […]
Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Jennifer Chilunga on Monday said early childhood education was vital for a child’s development. Chilunga was speaking when she launched the 2012 National Early Childhood Development Awareness Week. During the week, the ministry will carry out activities aimed at promoting Early Childhood development (ECD). Speaking during the […]
Seven non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the country have come together to fight child marriages, Nyasa Times has learnt. Led by the Centre for Youth and Children Affairs (CEYCA), the seven held a three-day meeting in Mponela, Dowa, where they developed information, education and communication messages with which to use in advocacy for anti-child marriage. Executive […]
The Malawi Police Services has appealed to members of the general public to always leave their children under the care of the right people to avoid exposing them to situations which can render them to being sexually abused. Southern Region Police Publicists, Nicholas Gondwa told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Wednesday responding to the increasing reports […]
Plan Malawi’s former Radio project now Timveni Child and Youth Media Organization, has been awarded a licence by the government of Malawi to run its own child focused TV station. Timveni will be the first child-run and child focused fully fledged TV station in Plan globally operating, alongside the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. Out of the […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has said she has spent a better part of her adult life championing the cause of youth and women and she will not allow men sexually abusing girls as young as four years old and old women. Speaking at an impromptu mass rally in Ntandire Township in the Capital City, Lilongwe […]