A business mogul has poured a staggering K380 million into building a modern police unit for the people of Msundwe and Kalolo, in a dramatic boost for a community long plagued by security concerns. Creck Hardware and General Supplies officially handed over the state-of-the-art facility to the Malawi Police Service on Wednesday, marking the end […]
Women lawyers, who have been pushing for the prosecution of police officers who allegedly raped some women in Msundwe, Lilongwe say the women lawyers grouping is surprised with the prolonged silence on the matter. The Women Lawyers Association of Malawi took the matter to court on behalf of the sexual victims. Women Lawyers Association of […]
Call it the new normal of justice delivery; a 21-year- old man, Clement Chigwe, has been killed Tuesday morning for allegedly attempting to rape a child in Msundwe, Lilongwe, Malawi Police have confirmed. According to police, the father of the alleged rape victim, took the law in his own hands and killed Chigwe upon learning […]
The acting United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator to Malawi, Benoit Thiry, has hailed the ruling the High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda delivered in respect of the rape, defilement and sexual assault on Msundwe women by Malawi Police Service officers. The court ordered the police to compensate 18 women allegedly sexually assaulted by cops in Lilongwe last […]
Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda has assured people of Msundwe and Mpingu in Lilongwe that Malawi Police Service will deploy its officers to the areas once police units are renovated. This comes after communities in Msundwe held reconciliation talks with police at Central Region Police Headquarters two weeks ago. Speaking on Friday at […]
Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe has said government will comply with the High Court determination that 18 Msudwe women who were victims of sexual violence and rape in Lilongwe should be compensated for the heinous acts allegedly suffered at the hands of Malawi Police officers. Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda in a ruling championed by Women Lawyers […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ordered government to compensate women who were harassed and sexually assaulted at Msundwe during retaliatory police attacks while simultaneously ordering Malawi Police Service to arrest police officers involved. High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda delivered the ruling and further ordered that assessment for the compensation should be done within 21 […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) officials on Thursday met the Inspector General of police and his team in Lilongwe to discuss the fate of some anti-Jane Ansah protesters who remain in prisons a month after the fall of the Democratic Progressive Party led government. HRDC officials asked the the police IG George Kainja and […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has set July 30-and 31, 2020 as the dates it will start hearing the case in which suspected police officers are being accused of raping and sexually assaulting women in and around Msundwe, Mpingu and M’bwatalika on the outskirts of Lilongwe. The Women Lawyers Association (WLA) has since been granted […]
Citizen for Transformation Movement (CFT) leader Timothy Mtambo has urged government to probe cases which stalled during former president Peter Mutharika’s regime to be in tune with President Lazarus Chakwera’s mantra of clearing the rubble to fix the ruins of the nation. Mtambo said this at a news conference he held in Lilongwe on Wednesday. […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government is poised to declare a police officer killed at Msundwe in Lilongwe during demonstrations last October a National Martyr, Nyasa Times has learnt. Sources at the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) have indicated that Police Mobile Service Superintendent Usuman Imedi, who was brutally killed in the […]
Five men have been sentenced to 36 months in prison for looting during last year’s Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) organised demonstrations in Lilongwe. A court in Lilongwe on Friday sentenced Donald, 52, Henry Kazembe, 24, John Banda, 27, Hopeson Kankhulungo, 21, and Justin Kamuloni, 24. Through police Prosecutor Sub Inspector John Kamphani, the court […]
Lilongwe First Grade magistrate’s court has sentenced five men to three years imprisonment with hard labour each for looting goods worth K23 million during the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) anti-Jane Ansah protests in October last year. Lilongwe police deputy spokesperson Foster Benjamin said the ruling was handed down on Friday. All the five suspects […]
Protesters in Lilongwe were stationed in one place near Kamuzu Central Hospital staging a protest within a protest after armed police in the Mchinji Road barred people from Msundwe, Mpingu and M’bwatalika, who were meant to join the demonstrations in town. Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) national chairperson Timothy Mtambo told the demonstrators to remain […]
Women Lawyers Association (WLA) of Malawi says it is taking legal action against the Malawi Police Service over its officers who allegedly raped women in and around Msundwe area along the Lilongwe-Mchinji Road in October last year. The association’s president Tadala Chinkwezule says the women lawyers have been compelled to take the legal action because “the […]
A prominent human rights lawyer has doubted the Malawi Police Service (MPS) will be able to investigate its own officers over serious allegations of rape at Msundwe in Lilongwe two months ago. Police says it has deployed six top-notch investigators to conduct full criminal investigations against some of its officers alleged to have sexually assaulted […]
The Malawi Police Service (MPs) says criminal investigations into officers alleged to have sexually molested women in Lilongwe at Msundwe are at advanced stage with a promised that they will be no shielding of the errant cops. According to a recent report by the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), police officers raped 13 women, defiled […]
Acting police Inspector General Duncan Mwapasa says the police have instituted a second probe into the Msundwe rapes following the release of a Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) report on the matter. A report releasedby MHRC in Decemmber 2019 found that police raped at least eight women and sexually violated several others, including girls, during […]