One of the country’s human rights activists who has dedicated his life to rescuing children from the streets, Godknows Maseko has called for international support and huge investment in the fight against human trafficking. Maseko, founder and director of Step-Kids Awareness (STEKA) pointed out that human trafficking is currently affecting the country’s social and […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe on Wednesday arrested two brothers for human trafficking. Lilongwe Police Station spokesperson Kingsley Dandaula identified the suspects as Santon Abdullah 35, from Masindi village in the area of Traditional Authority (TA) Malemia in Zomba and Yusuf Abdullah 35, from Nchokola village TA Kawinga in Machinga district. He told the Malawi News […]
The Zomba Chief Resident Magistrate court has sentenced a 22 year old man to 14 years imprisonment with hard labor for offering for sale his 7 year old biological daughter born with albinism. Regional Prosecution Officer Senior Superintendent Dickens Mwambazi told the court that the suspect Yasin Pichesi 22 on 11th June, 2016 at Muheya […]
Malawi government officials are flying to South Africa to meet their Pretoria counterparts on Wednesday to chart the way forward following the discovery and subsequent rescue of 57 children two weeks ago. Sources at Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe said the two governments are likely to dwell on efforts to bring back […]
Home Affairs minister Jappie Mhango has conceded the government was caught pants down, snoozing when South African authorities caught three child traffickers with 82 children aboard a cargo vehicle. “As a ministry, we are dealing with this emerging problem, we never expected that the problem would be this huge,” he said on Tuesday. Mhango said […]
President Peter Mutharika says he has ordered the Foreign Affairs ministry to make arrangements to repatriate 57 young Malawians who were intercepted as they were being trafficked to South Africa. Mutharika said he was briefed on the matter soon after the chidren were rescued. “My government is working with the government of South Africa on […]
Fifty-seven Malawian children between the ages of 11 and 21 have been rescued from three suspected human traffickers in South Africa. Three Malawian nationals who were transporting the children have since been arrested by South African police. Accoridng to Times Live, the suspectes appeared briefly at the Rustenburg Regional Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. Their […]
Malawi Police in Balaka are keeping in custody five men suspected to have been on their way trafficking a total of 74 people to the Republic of South Africa. The five were arrested during wee hours of 12 July 2016 by a team of police officers who were on night duties conducting Patrols and Mounting […]
A group of 30 Malawian girls stranded in in the oil rich Kuwait country following confiscation of their passports have asked for Malawi government to help them get back home. “We are suffering. We are stuck and the number is increasing. Our government should help us return home quickly,” said one of the girls Martha […]
Ntcheu First Grade Magistrate on Friday sentenced to nine months imprisonment a 20-year-old man Abdul Yasin for human trafficking. Yasin who hails from Piyasi village, T/A Chowe Mangochi district was arrested on Wednesday (May 18th) trafficking 26 people using unchartered routes at Biriwiri border. The court convicted him at his own plea. Ntcheu police deputy Public Relations […]
Government has asked relatives of 12 girls taken out of abusing work places in Kuwait to pay for their air tickets back to Malawi, saying the government has no money. Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Kasaila said the government is too broke to bring the 12 girls back to Malawi. “If their relatives don’t come […]
Government is warning Malawian women to turn down job offers in Arab countries from unknown job agents, saying unsuspecting women are thrown into prostitution. Secretary for Labour Patrick Kabambe said this after a consultant Trevor Kandoje released a report which shows that Malawian women are sexually abused in Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. “Government […]
Chairperson of the Malawi Judiciary Training Committee, Justice Dr. Chifundo Kachale says the newly enacted Trafficking in Persons Law will go a long way in helping legal practitioners implement the statute competently. Kachale observed that the new law on trafficking in persons had come at an opportune time when the courts were grappling with the […]
There is a sex trafficking ring for Malawian girls to go to Kuwait and work as hookers with Flora Gondwe of Ministry of Information being suspected to be among the gangsters in the shocking and systematic abuse of trafficked girls. Gondwe, an office assistant at Lilongwe District Information Office, is said to be working with […]
Two men in Mulanje district have been fined by the First Grade Magistrates Court after being found guilty on the charge of human trafficking. The court on Friday ordered the two, Frank Bluegum, 32, and 56-year-old Austine Gunde to pay a fine of K250, 000.00 each or in default serve an 18 months jail sentence. Bluegum and […]
Malawian girls from Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande and other parts of Mzimba district are being trafficked for marriages to Malawian men working in South Africa. The marriages are said to be initiated by parents who want to benefit from their girl children in form of money (dowry) and other materials from the men working in […]
Malawi police in Phalombe district on Wednesday afternoon intercepted four girls who were being trafficked to Mozambique for Labour and prostitution exploitation. The police have since arrested two Mozambicans for human trafficking offences. Police, acting on a tip-off, intercepted the girls at Phalombe trading centre as they were being ferried in a minibus registration number […]
The Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) said women, especially commercial sex workers and children are more prone to trafficking in persons and has since the media fraternity and other key stakeholders in the country to take coordinated and consistent measures in fighting against human trafficking. NCA Head of Programmes Esther Masika spoke during an orientation meeting […]