An 18-year old boy has been arrested in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka for allegedly raping a 69 year old granny. The suspect Chifundo Chausa defiled the victim at her home during the New Year’s Eve (31st December). Balaka police spokesperson sub-inspector Joseph Sauka says the victim who is a widow told the police that the […]
Reports of defilement cases are refusing to die in the district of Balaka as Police in the district have just arrested a 43 year old man for allegedly defiling his 12 year old pupil. The suspect John Mpinganjira who is a teacher at Kapalamula School was arrested after Police received a complaint that he defiled […]
Ashworth Namondwe is on trial at Nottingham Crown Court He thanked his victim and promised to do it again next time Son to Malawi’s envoy to China, Charles Namondwe, a direct cousin to President Peter Mutharika, has been arrested and is facing a trial for raping and defiling a ‘sleeping 13-year-old girl in Nottingham, United […]
A 19-year-old boy in Mzuzu who claimed to have been a victim of anual sex rape by the Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) assistant project officer Ishmael Makhuludzo, was actually in an affair with the suspect according to an investigation report compiled by Malawi Police as seen by Nyasa Times. In it, the […]
Four sex workers are under police custody while their two colleagues are at large following allegations that they have for sometime beeg taking turns sexually abusing a teenager in the northern city of Mzuzu. The Police have confirmed that they are keeping in custody four commercial sex workers for allegedly defiling a 13-year old boy […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) and Ward Councillors for Machinga district have signed an agreement with Machinga Women Forum (MAWOF) to address issues affecting women in the district. The Parliamentarians and Councillors signed the pact during a meeting with the forum facilitated by the Pan African Civic Educators Network (PACENET) with funding from USAID which followed […]
Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody a senior pastor of Feel Prophetic Food Ministries located in Chinsapo, Adamson Chirwa, 37, for being suspected of raping a woman. According to Lilongwe Police PRO Kingsley Dandaula, the victim “Elube Mbale, 23, had been experiencing miscarriages whenever she was pregnant. “The victim (Mbale ) shared her miscarriage […]
Police at Phalula in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka are keeping in custody a 78-year-old man for allegedly defiling an 18-year-old imbecile. Police detective, Constable Paul Hasule Kapumila says the suspect Luciano Maulidi has been defiling the victim on several occasions since last year 2013 according to the investigator of the case. “And last week […]
Barely a day after Police in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka arrested a 23 year old man for allegedly defiling his own 3 year old daughter; another 40 year old man has been arrested for defiling his 6 year old step daughter in the same district. Police says the suspect Isaac Mphepo, defiled her step […]
Police in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka are keeping in custody two men over the savage gang rape of a 45 year old woman. The two, Dimba Dzoole 32, and Gift Shaibu 22 alongside their friend who is at large raped the woman in turns after chasing the victim’s husband. Police publicist sub-inspector Joseph Sauka […]
Police in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka are disturbed on why defilement cases are still on the increase in the district despite stiffer sentences the courts are imposing on offenders. Child Protection Officer for Balaka Police Station Sergeant Elias Sungani says said in the past 6 months the district has registered 11 defilement cases as […]
The UK Government is calling for international action to address the problem of sexual violence in conflict. All the Governments that have endorsed the UN Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict will be invited, as will legal, military and judicial practitioners and representatives from multilateral organisations, NGOs and civil society. On 9-13 […]
Police in Kasungu are keeping in custody Mvano John for allegedly raping a 28-year-old woman before strangling her to death. The woman –name shielded – comes from Chikula Village, T/A Simlemba in Kasungu District. Kasungu Police Deputy Spokesperson, Burton Mathewe, told Nyasa Times, the suspect went to the deceased house last Saturday at around 21:00hrs […]
The Kasungu Magistrate Court has convicted 21-year-old, Gift Chirwa, to 13 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for raping a 74-year-old granny. Kasungu Police Deputy Spokesperson, Constable Burton Mathewe, told Nyasa Times the convict raped the grandma twice on the night of 06 November last year. The victim, Grace Chirwa, hails from Mtchalowa Village in the area […]
What began as a beautiful Sunday ended fatefully for the family of Pastor Evans Majoni of Dzenza CCAP Church in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. After successfully preaching the word of God to the congregation earlier in the day, the darkest and unforgettable hour came at around midnight when four armed robbers broke into the church and […]
Malawi Police have confirmed the case of four Lilongwe women driving a dark Mercedes Benz who kidnapped and raped a 22 year old man (name withheld) holding knives and tying him with hundcuffs and eyes with a cloth and took turns to rape him. He was on oxygen machine at Salima District Hospital after he […]
Police in Malawi’s Eastern district of Balaka are keeping in custody a 35 year-old man for sexually abusing a fellow male person. The police identify the suspect as Mavuto Misomali (35) who on Thursday last week sexually abused an 18 year old boy who was stranded at Chingeni Road Block after he failed to raise […]
Police in Ntchisi have arrested a teacher at Mitondo Primary School for defiling and impregnating a 16 year old girl. Ntchisi Police spokesperson Gladson M’bumpha told Nyasa Times on Wednesday that the incident occurred between the months of August 2012 and May 2013 at Kasakula Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chilooko in the […]