Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi are keeping in custody a 30-year-old man they arrested on Saturday morning for sexually assaulting a female student from St. Johns DMI University which is in the district. Thomas Julius is alleged to have sexually harassed the 21-year-old Mtisunge Mtogolo when both were on a queue to withdraw money […]
The Mtakataka First Grade Magistrate’s court in Dedza has jailed a bicycle taxi operator for six years on Thursday after it found him guilty of trying to rape a woman he had carried on his bicycle. The convict, John James aged 21 comes from Karonga Village, Traditional Authority (TA) Kachindamoto while the victim (name withheld), […]
The Malawi Police Services has appealed to members of the general public to always leave their children under the care of the right people to avoid exposing them to situations which can render them to being sexually abused. Southern Region Police Publicists, Nicholas Gondwa told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Wednesday responding to the increasing reports […]
Two magistrate courts in Malawi have handed lengthy prison sentences to two men for sexual attack charges, sending strong signals that the courts will hand stiffer punishment to sex offenders. In the Dedza First Grade Magistrate court on Friday, the court sentenced a 28 year old man to 11 years imprisonment with hard labuor (IHL) […]
Police have arrested a third and supposedly last suspect in the rape and murder cases of an 18-year-old Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT) student and her boyfriend respectively. The suspect, Willy Nanthambwe, is believed to be part of a three-member squad that repeatedly gang-raped the girl and murdered her boyfriend Victor Kokoma on January 17, […]
A college girl studying at Blantyre International University (BIU) was sexually assaulted by a gang of men armed with panga knives who are on the run, according to police. The 20 year old Namiwawa-based girl (name withheld) was attacked on August 4 The girl, a business administration student, met her fate on the wee hours […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXXiDK5kQI&feature=g-all-u Malawian mother pleads with global church to speak out on sexual violence in powerful new film, ahead of international AIDS conference in Washington DC This Friday (20th July), Theresa Malila, Tearfund Inspired Individual and founder of Somebody Cares Ministries, will be speaking in Washington DC at the We Will Speak Out event. A […]
Malawi Police are keeping in custody a 30 year old man on allegations that he indecently assaulted a person of the same sex who happens to be a standard three boy aged nine in the central region district of Nkhotakota. Nkhotakota Police spokesman, Sergeant Kaitano Lubrino, the report says t the incident occurred on July […]
Barely a day after President Joyce Banda complained of moral decay and high rate of rape and defilement cases at Ntandire in Lilongwe, police have pitched a tent close to where the President said over 70 women and girls are raped every month. According to a report in The Nation on Wednesday, the Police on […]
Last Thursday President Joyce Banda went ballistic. She stomped out of the state house to Nthandire Township where she issued directives and condemned, in the strongest terms, the rapists in the area. The outrage came shortly after the Director of Somebody Cares orphanage, Theresa Malira, graphically reported to the president cases of child abuse in Nthandire area – […]
A 25 year old Village Headman in Mzimba District on Friday gave himself up to Police after almost three weeks at large when news broke out that he had repeatedly defiled a 14 year old girl, Nyasa Times has gathered. Paradoxically, the girl a standard 8 pupil, is supposed to be his daughter according to […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has said she has spent a better part of her adult life championing the cause of youth and women and she will not allow men sexually abusing girls as young as four years old and old women. Speaking at an impromptu mass rally in Ntandire Township in the Capital City, Lilongwe […]
The Wilson family of Chilobwe township in Blantyre is living in fear after their two daughters aged 7 and 12 went missing on Sunday afternoon only to return home Monday morning defiled. The children were kidnapped on their way home by an unknown man who enticed them with K50. According to the children’s mother, Cecilia […]
A 42-year-old Malawian man has been arrested in Cape Town, South Africa for allegedly raping his sister-in-law aged 10. Steven Moyo from Salima district appeared before Cape Town Magistrate court on Tuesday to be formally charged of rape. He denied the charge. Moyo is accused that on 17th June 2012, invited the 10-year-old girl to […]
Malawi Police Service have apprehended a second suspect in the murder and gang raping four months ago of a Blantyre man and his 18-year-old girl friend respectively. Blantyre Police Assistant Public Relations Officer, Lameck Thembachako identified the suspect as 28-year-old Jimmy Khumalo. The first suspect, Jonasi Zakeyu also aged 28, according to Thembachako, was arrested […]
Limbe Dalton Magistrates court has sentenced to 36 months (three years) Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) Innocent Kanyesi for sexually assaulting two under-aged girls. Kanyesi, 22-year old and hails from Mlozi village T/A Kadewere in Chiradzulu was arrested in June 2010 for defiling and indecently assaulting two girls (names withheld) in Naperi, Blantyre. In mitigation […]
Malawi Police in Mzimba have arrested 44 year old Langsman Mwale of Damaseko Mwale village, T/A Kampingo Sibande for sexually attacking his daughter in-law. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo said on 29 April, 2012 the suspect had invited the daughter in-law 18-year-old daughter-in-law to his house after sending his wife away on an errand. Nyirongo […]
Minister of Gender, children and social welfare Anita Kalinde has disclosed that President Mrs. Joyce Banda will offer educational support to a three-year-old Dowa girl who was defiled by her 50 year-old uncle. The uncle – Medison Gomani – sexually assaulted his niece in his maize garden, after he got advice from a South-African-based herbalist […]