Police in Dowa are looking for two Ethiopians over allegations that they are connected to a ring of human traffickers at Dzaleka Refufgee Camp in Dowa. Dowa police officer-in-charge Charles Msitu has confirmed that the two Ethiopians were allegedly involved in human trafficking at the 40,000-strong refugee camp. “These two Ethiopians are notorious and deadly. […]
Mozambican police have repatriated eight Malawian nationals who were found abandoned in a house in their country by a human trafficker. Edwin Kaunda, immigration spokesperson for Mwanza border said the eight Malawians are from the lakeshore districts of Mangochi and Salima. “The human trafficker, a Malawian, abandoned them in an unused house in Mozambique where […]
The U.S. government said it has suspended issuance of visas for domestic employees of Malawian officials after one of its diplomats failed to pay $1.1 million in damages to a woman she trafficked in the United States. In 2016, domestic worker Fainess Lipenga was awarded the payout in a human trafficking lawsuit against her employer […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu have rescued 20 trafficked girls and all have babies fathered by a bogus pastor who trafficked them into the district. Police spokesperson in Ncheu Hastings Chigaru said the suspected trafficker Harrison Chatepa, popularly known as ‘a Dad One’ is still on the run. Chigaru said the girls were trafficked from Mwanza, […]
Malawi Police have arrested 15 Ethiopians at Dzaleka refugee camp in Dowa in a violent operation which saw the refugees smashing a police vehicle as the law enforcers arrested the suspected human traffickers. The arrest of the 15 Ethiopians comes barely weeks after the arrest of other two Ethiopians on the same charges of human […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji are keeping in custody two people, a Zambian and Malawian nationals, for allegedly trafficking four people. Police arrested the two on Sunday August 26th, 2018. The two are Mateyu Mnyowe aged 34 who hails from Matunduluzi village, Traditional Authority Kalolo in Lilongwe and Zambian National identified as Nason Phiri, 42, from […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji have arrested a 44 year old man on allegations that he was trafficking 21 people, half them children, to work on a farm in Zambia. Police officer Ron Chauluka confirmed on Thursday of the arrest of Ganizani Rodgers from chief Mazengera’s area in Lilongwe who had taken the 21 people, 12 […]
Sex trafficking in Malawi is one of the great moral challenges of our time. The vice is an age-old tendency in the country which mostly has been proliferated by poverty and illiteracy amongst women and the girls. They have no choice, really, to turn down offers from devils who masquerade as God-sent angels in the […]
Malawi will among Commonwealth countries that will receive Britain’s support through a 5.5 million pound ($7.8 million) aid package to help eradicate human trafficking and child exploitation as more countries commit to take action to help victims and bring perpetrators to justice. This support, from the Department for International Development and the Home Office, will identify vulnerable […]
Malawi Network Against Trafficking (MNAT) has beamoned high levels of trafficking in persons, saying there many vict8ms trapped in modern-day slavery. MNAT Chairperson Mandinda Zungu was speaking in Lilongwe during a media orientation on the status of trafficking in persons in Malawi. “We are asking government to address real causes of trafficking in persons,” said Mandinda. […]
Balaka First Grade Magistrate’s Court has convicted and sentenced Mastone Mussa, 31, to five years imprisonment with hard labour after he was found guilty of human trafficking contrary to Section 14 of Trafficking Act. Police Public Relations Officer for Balaka Distruct, Edith Kachotsa, said law enforcers arrested the convict on February 9 2018 at Ngwangwa […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Cecilia Chazama has pledged its commitment to fighting against trafficking in persons and has since called for strong partnership in curbing the vice in the country. Chazama said this Friday in Lilongwe at the Bingu International Convention Centre when she opened National Inter-Disciplinary Symposium on Trafficking in persons. […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Cecilia Chazama has said every Malawian need to take a leading role in the fight against trafficking in persons in the country. Chama said this Tuesday in Lilongwe during national stakeholders planning meeting on the implementation of the national plan of action against trafficking. She said it was […]
Malawi Police are hunting for a suspected human trafficker who is operating from Dzaleka Refugee Camp. The development comes barely some weeks after the same police launched investigations into some Somali nationals who are alleged to be behind a cartel trafficking humans through a mosque at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa. Dowa Police Station publicist […]
Mchinji Second Grade Magistrate on Thursday sentenced a Zambian national, Gift Zulu 26, to 21 years imprisonment with hard labor for human trafficking. The sentence comes barely two weeks after a certain man was sentenced to 116 years IHL for similar charges of transferring eleven people from villages under traditional authorities Mazengera and Kalumbu in […]
A 30 years old man who attempted to traffic two young men to Tanzania will spend a staggering 8 years behind bars, following Chitipa Magistrate Court sentencing. Alick Silumbu was contracted by a rich Tanzanian business man to look for two strong young men from Malawi to work in his estates. Police Prosecutor, Sub […]
Malawi government has launched the first ever National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons which targets a 50-percent reduction rate in human trafficking crime by 2022. Home Affairs and National Security Minister Grace Chiumia, who presided over the launching ceremony on Tuesday, described this blueprint against human trafficking as an ideal supplement to the 2015 […]
A Malawian woman trafficked to the United States by a diplomat, confined to a house for three years and forced to work long hours for little pay has been awarded $1 million in damages in a human trafficking lawsuit against her former employer. Fainess Lipenga began working for Jane Kambalame as a housemaid in her […]