Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati has urged women in the country not to withdraw cases of gender-based violence (GBV), saying the trend defeats efforts to curb the vice. Kaliati said this on Tuesday at Chikomwe Primary School in Traditional Authority (T/A) Chowe in Mangochi at the launch of Girls and […]
Theatre for a Change (TfAC), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), with financial support from Concern World Wide has started engaging Malawi police officers from various districts across the country to a trainer of trainers training (TOT) where it is teaching them areas of HIV/Aids, Gender- Based Violence, child protection and human rights. Speaking after the commencement […]
Malawi Police in Phalombe district on Friday arrested a 48 year-old man for allegedly beating his wife to death. According to police, the man, identified as Ganizani Salondwa beat his wife Esther Salimu 26, to death with a wooden brick mould (Chikombole) on suspicion that she was cheating on him. Pholombe police publicist, Augustus Nkhwazi […]
Blantyre-based flamboyant lawyer Ambokire Salimu was on Christmas Day picked by Police after he allegedly savagely beat up his second wife Mphatso Chimimba. Sources close to the case told Nyasa Times that Salimu, was arrested at the couple’s Namiwawa home. While details of what started the domestic violence are still sketchy, our source tells us that Salimu […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) and Ward Councillors for Machinga district have signed an agreement with Machinga Women Forum (MAWOF) to address issues affecting women in the district. The Parliamentarians and Councillors signed the pact during a meeting with the forum facilitated by the Pan African Civic Educators Network (PACENET) with funding from USAID which followed […]
Police in Kasungu are keeping in custody Kennedy Banda, 42, for burning private parts of niece after she had refused to have sex with him. The suspect on 5th July at Kalembo Village in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chilowamatambe burned the private parts of his 25 year-old niece, Nellie Josephy, after she turned […]
Ngoni traditional leader, Inkosi Mpherembe of Mzimba, has said men are also victims of gender based violence (GBV). Speaking when this year’s 16 Days of Activism against GBV Campaign, he said there were significant cases of men and boys that were victims. “The problem is that men suffer in silence. Some women abuse males mentally […]
At a time when Malawi and the international community are commemorating 16 days of activism towards gender based violence, a woman is battling for her life at Nkhata-Bay district hospital after her ex husband scalded her with a pail full of hot water due to jealousy. According to Nkhata-Bay Police head of criminal investigation, Morton […]
Few weeks ago, a woman activist by the name Seodi White was all over the media lambasting President Joyce Banda for politely offering unsolicited advice to married women in Malawi. The so called activist shamelessly deuced President Banda of advocating for patriarchal culture in a democratic country. To sober minded people including women, saw nothing […]
Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSAHC) is strategising how Malawi can appropriate policies to avoid gender based violence and child sexual abuse. Chairperson of Health and Population Committee of Parliament, Paul Chibingu has said gender based violence issues are affecting people even at rural level, urban level […]