Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living or Personally Affected by HIV and Aids (MANERELA+) on Friday 29th July 2016 held a Regional dialogue interface meeting between religious leaders and groups of people who engages themselves in different types of sexual activities called LGBTI [Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transexual and Intersex]. The meeting held at Mkango Lodge […]
Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Affected with HIV and Aids (MANERELA+) has hit back at Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP)-Nkhoma Synod over the condemnation of Non-Governmental Organizations championing the fight and respecting of the rights of minority particularly same-sex practices. This follows issuing of a Pastoral Letter by the Nkhoma Synod which […]
Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Nkhoma Synod, has proposed a referendum to settle the vexed issue of homosexuality. In a pastoral letter, the church has condemned homosexuality and abortion, saying if government and activist insists on minority rights, there should be a national referendum for citizens to decide. In Malawi, men who have sex with men can […]
The District Executive Committee (DEC) members in Karonga the northern part of Malawi, have snubbed Paramount Chief Kyungu’s order of not allowing the rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) in his area. In February this year, Kyungu who is the most senior chief of Karonga and Chitipa denounced the rights of LGBTI […]
Executive Director for the Center for the Development of People (CEDEP), Gift Trapece accompanied by Rev. McDonald Sembereka this week had a tough time to convince District Executive Committee (DEC) members in Mulanje to give them a go-ahead with a minority rights centered project called Access to Justice. Among other things the project seeks to […]
High Court Judge Dingiswayo Madise has sustained an injunction obtained against moratorium by government which requires Malawi Police Service (MPS) to suspend arresting and prosecuting gays and lesbians until review of the anti-homosexuality laws. Pastors Patrick Banda and Tusalifye Mbeye as well as Christopher Kammasamba in February applied to court to lift a suspension of […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe on Sunday saved a male prostitute from mob justice after a man who had lured him into sex realized he was male when they had gone into a room. Police in Lilongwe confirmed the arrest of Limbane Kukhase who was whisked away as a mob were administering vigilante justice on him […]
Centre for the Development of people (Cedep) has expressed worry over the increasing HIV prevalence rate in Mulanje among the gay community. Programmes manager for Cedep Rodney Chalera said recently that among the 2364 population of the gay community, the prevalence rate stands at 24.9 per cent. He said the study was done in September […]
Another official from Centre for Development of People (Cedep) is facing charges of having a gay sexual activity. Police said they arrested Cedep district coordinator in Mangochi, Kenneth Chimombo, for allegedly sexually assaulting a Form Four male student at his home. Chimombo, who hails from Mtalimanja Village, Traditional Authority Ntaja in Mangochi has been charged with […]
The country’s consumer organization, Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) has taken a swipe on donor community for trying to set up parallel structures of governance and influencing Malawians to adopt homosexuality. On Thursday morning CAMA led a group of consumers in a solidarity march in the streets of the Blantyre city, demanding for an improvement in […]
Malawi and other developing nations will be sidelined from World Bank funding in projects that could end up harming gay people. This has been disclosed by the President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim speaking at the Economist’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ conference taking place in London, New York and Hong Kong. The World Bank […]
The High Court in Blantyre is set to hear a judicial review of a case where two directors of a ‘Christian’ private school, Kalibu Academy want a former governor of the school arrested over homosexuality activities allegations. Micheal T. Howard and Paisley Mavutula, Director and Headmaster of Kalibu Academy respectively obtained a contempt of court […]
UK based Malawian multi-faith charitable organisation, ‘The Faith in Love Project’ director, outspoken civil rights activist, Evangelist Elizabeth Kalonga has taken a sweeping commonsense ‘hashtag’ in applauding the Scottish Government for coming to the rescue of Malawi at a time the people of the impoverished southern African nation are going through economic meltdown. In giving […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika personally welcomed to his official Kamuzu Palace a UK cabinet minister and Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell – the first openly gay man to serve in a Conservative government. The 53-year-old MP, a divorcee with three grown up children, came out as a homosexual this year describing his decision to acknowledge […]
I have said this and I will repeat it. If a referendum were to be held today on whether government should repeal Section 153 of the Penal Code, which prohibits homosexuality, the majority would vote no. What this means is that such an exercise would be a futile one which we can do without. As […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Mulanje South, Bon Kalindo has vowed that he will not support any attempts to repeal anti-homosexual laws if parliament is tasked to deliberate a bill to recognise gay rights. Kalindo said he has been mandated by his constituents to stand firm against the bill claiming they were […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has ordered the Malawi Police Service, the Director of Public Prosecutions to continue arresting and prosecuting gays and lesbians who commit homosexual offences in Malawi. The prosecutions will continue pending a judicial review of the decisions, conduct and abdication of legal and constitutional duty by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional […]
Malawi Police have been called to investigate a possible hate crime in which a gay man was subjected to a sickening homophobic attack in the capital Lilongwe on Monday. Photos posted on Facebook by human right activist Billy Mayaya shows Kelvin Gomani who works at Crossroads Hotel was brutally attacked by unknown gang for being gay. […]