A row has erupted in Malawi’s online political sphere after veteran journalist Dickson Kashoti accused social media whistleblower Alexious Kamangila of sitting on information about the network behind the abduction of British national Nusrat Osman — and of using unfounded rumour to attack Attorney General Frank Mbeta. In a Facebook post, Kashoti alleged that Kamangila […]
A string of high-profile abductions across Malawi has prompted the country’s leading human rights watchdog to demand that police go beyond rescuing victims and start dismantling the criminal networks behind the crimes. The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) says the Malawi Police Service owes the public answers — not just about who carried […]
A Malawian auditor has been kidnapped in a chilling daylight abduction near Mount Pleasant in Blantyre — leaving her family and employers scrambling for information as police launch a search. Nusrat Osman Jiwa was bundled into a grey/silver Nissan Dualis, registration number 6956, according to her husband Nazil Osman, who broke the news in a […]
Three Malawians of Asian origin who were convicted for kidnapping a five-year-old boy Tahil Shail of Asian extract have been sentenced to four years imprisonment each and that they be deported to their country of origin soon after completing their sentence. The sentence was handed by Blantyre chief resident magistrate Simeon Mdeza, who predided over the case […]
Unknown people in Blantyre have abducted a five-year-old child of Asian extract and are demanding ransom from his parents. Leader of community policing in Mpingwe, Salim Sidik, said the driver dropped the boy at the residence of his aunt and within a few a minutes the abductors took the boy from the fenced residence and […]
Barely a month after Ian Chikoti 18, escaped from kidnappers in Lilongwe who duped him by asking for directions in a Black Nissan X-Trail, he has gone missing. Ian, who used to stay in Area 22 in Lilongwe, went to see his brother, Chris Martin Chikoti in Area 23. He left his brother’s house by […]
Students of Mawira Private Secondary School in Liwonde Township in Machinga Monday night smashed and burnt down a house of businessman Victor Mtuwa allegedly for kidnapping a female student. In an interview with on Wednesday, Police in Machinga confirmed the development adding the students and some Liwonde residents stoned the police who responded to the […]
Blantyre Magistrates Court has convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour one of the two men who kidnapped a 33-year-old man and attempted to sell him at K5 million (approximately US$8,772). The two suspects namely Nowa Madson, 20, and Maxwell Mitawa, 23, kidnapped Patrick Julio and on Tuesday tried to sell him […]
Malawi police in Limbe in the commercial city of Blantyre are keeping in custody two men who kidnapped a 33-year-old man and attempted to sell him at K5 million. The two suspects namely Nowa Madson, 20, and Maxwell Mitawa, 23, kidnapped Patrick Julio and wanted to sell him to Amitofo Care Centre in Limbe – a […]
Police in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga are keeping in custody two Malawian men for kidnapping two children aged seven and nine on their way to school with intention to sell them to a Tanzanian witch doctor based in Kaporo, northern part of the district. Chilumba Police Officer-in-Charge, Billy Chimbonga says the two are Mzondi […]
Three people are in Police custody in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka for allegedly kidnapping and defiling a 14 year old girl. Detective Sub Inspector Winstone Njolomole, says the suspects Rlanos Kapire 27, Kingsley Makwana 28 and Paul Mwaona 27 were arrested following a tip on the suspected criminals who were allegedly hiding at a […]
Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody a man whose identify couldn not be independently verified for attempting to kidnap a baby belonging to a Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) journalist Josephy Mwanoka. The incident happened Monday 11th November, 2013. Mwanoka confirmed with Nyasa Times :“My wife was in the kitchen cooking so she left the […]
Police in the northern region district of Chitipa have arrested a 29 year old woman and a 14 year old boy for an aborted ritual killing of a five year old child. Northern Region Police Spokesperson Norah Chimwala confirmed the arrests saying the incident happened at Kamphoyo Village, Traditional Authority Nthalire. The duo will answer […]