Police in the northern city of Mzuzu have arrested a witchdoctor and his accomplice for trying to sell a family of three for MK170m to a prospective Business person for use in rituals believed to make people rich. Husband and wife, Kantende Ibrahim and Loveness Sachokela respectively were tagged at MK70 million while their two […]
A suspected child trafficker Abdul Mallick Audrey who is answering charges of trafficking Muslim children to Tanzania is reportedly at large – together with his sureties – few weeks after a magistrate’s court in the northern border district of Karonga granted him bail. Police in Karonga arrested Abdul Malick Audrey of Senior Traditional Authority Nkaya in Balaka […]
A 20 year-old Yohane Kamwendo from Area 9 Machinjiri Blantyre on Wednesday last week escaped his traffickers in Zambia after learning that he was trafficked and not taken to be employed as promised earlier. Kamwendo said he learnt that he was trafficked from a guard at a certain place in Chipata where he was held […]
Abdul Malick Audrey of Senior Traditional Authority Nkaya in Balaka whom Malawi Police arrested on May 4 2013 for allegedly trafficking 26 Muslim students to Zanzibar has said that the State wrongly charged him because Immigration procedures are not part of section 79(2) of the Child Care, Protection and Justice Act. According to section 79 […]
A First Grade Magistrate’s court in Malawi’s northern region border district of Karonga has granted bail to a suspected child trafficker Abdul Mallick Audrey on conditions that he must give the court 100 thousand Malawi kwacha and two traceable witnesses which each should give twenty thousand kwacha. First Grade Magistrate’s Chakaka Nyirenda ruled that the […]
The Karonga First Grade Magistrate’s Court has denied bail two suspected child traffickers who were arrested over the weekend for allegedly tracking 26 Muslim students under the pretext of taking them for training to Zanzibar in Tanzania. During the proceedings, lawyer George Jivason Kadzipatike representing the suspsects asked the court to give bail to his […]
Police in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are keeping in custody two people including the propriety of a primary school for suspected of trafficking 26 Muslim pupils from Estcourse Islamic primarily school in Mangochi to Zanzibar in Tanzania on Saturday. Karonga Police Officer in charge Foster Mangani identified the suspects as Abdul Malick Audrey […]
Malawi continues to experience an increase in the case of women and child trafficking due to weak laws, poverty, limited education and awareness, according to YouthNet and Counselling (YONECO) vice board chair Nanzen Kaphagawani He said this during the closing ceremony of a two weeks training on REFLECT at Naming’azu trading centre in the old […]
The Mangochi Second Grade Magistrate’s Court has convicted and sentenced 41-year-old man to seven years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for offering a man for sale, an offence which is contrary to Section 263 of the Penal Code. The court heard on Friday that James Amadu offered for sale 52-year-old Daudi Mwenyali at a price […]
Youth Net and Counselling (YONECO) in partnership with Malawi Police has rescued 24 Malawians aged between 19 and 42 from being trafficked to economic giant South Africa. The victims who are all male were being trafficked from Mangochi to South Africa via Dedza border. YONECO Media Networking and Advocacy Officer –Charles Banda told Nyasa Times […]
*Every little girl has a dream. Some want to marry a prince. Others long to marry the rich and famous. But for one Habiba Osman, a civil rights activist, lawyer and human trafficking expert, her dreams were only about one thing – to defend the innocent and defenceless – and she always knew she wanted […]
Malawi government has been asked to take the Trafficking in Persons bill to parliament for deliberations and pass it into law. Cabinet is reported to have approved the bill last year. Habiba Osman, one of the country’s top human rights lawyers, said many children from Malawi are also taken to other neighbouring countries, such as Zambia, Mozambique […]