The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) have appeaeled to the Malawi Police Service to institute swift investigation into criminal elements surrounding the Salima violence and ensure that perpetrators are brought before the courts of law. The two human rights watchdogs say they are dismayed by […]
A witchcraft mob justice victim in Mulanje has died as police in Dedza were rushing to rescue another woman from mob justice over same witchcraft allegations. The woman has died was burnt by angry mob at Kazembe village in Mulanje district yesterday, on allegations that she, together with her son, killed their relation through magic. […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday condemned the high rate of violence in the country against women and children, calling it “disgusting and barbaric”. Chakwera speaking in Parliament before responding to the questions from legislators, took time to condemn what he described as barbaric behaviour that has been unleashed on innocent souls in the country. He […]
The Malawi Network for Older Persons’ Organizations (MANEPO) has challenged Malawi Police Service (MPS) to immediately arrest and prosecute every person involved in stoning to death of an elderly woman accused of witchcraft. On Monday, social media was awash with pictures of a mob stoning to death an innocent old lady accused of witchcraft at […]
Deputy Inspector General of Malawi Police Service, John Nyondo has warned communities in Chitipa that the law would not spare anyone found accusing or attacking elderly people over witchcraft allegations. He was speaking at an awareness campaign on safety in Chitipa on Saturday, aimed at raising awareness against violence towards vulnerable groups like children and […]
Malawi Police in Chitipa are on the hunt for perpetrators of a brutal death of a 75-year-old woman on Saturday identified as Filiness Mulenga whom they accused of practicing witchcraft. Chitipa Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Sub Inspector Gladwell Simwaka said the incident occurred at Kawale Village in Traditional Authority Mwaulambia in the district. He […]
Veteran human rights defender, Undule Mwakasungula, has weighed in on the rampant killings of men and women who have been accused of witchcraft, especially in his home district Karonga, describing it as a national crisis that requires “urgent and critical attention.” Since December 2019, over eight lives have been lost in Karonga and Chitipa district […]
Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga on Saturday said the proliferation of killings of innocent people in Karonga district on allegation of witchcraft is worrisome and urged the clergy in his diocese to preach peace and love. In the last few days, Nyasa Times has learnt, there have been a battalion of killings in Chitipa […]
Malawi Police in Neno have rescued two elderly women from an angry mob which wanted to them on suspicion that they bewitched a man who was working in South Africa. The women hail from Moffat village in chie Dambe’s area in the district. Chief Dambe said the police came in time as the mob was […]
Malawi Police in Dowa are hunting for people who allegedly killed Paulo Tokoma on suspicion that he was practising witchcraft. Dowa Police Station spokesperson Richard Kaponda said the incident happened on August 2 2019 at Kachala Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Msakambewa in the district. He said the irate people also demolished the suspect’s houses […]
A mob in Mulanje on Tuesday killed a 55-year-old Mandson Benson on allegations that he was practicing witchcraft. Mulanje Police Station Officer, Isaiah Mlowoka, said the deceased was being accused for having a hand in a death of another man identified as Chifundo Mwenye from the same village earlier this month. Mlowoka said Mwenye’s relations […]
Irate members of the community in the area of group village headman Mwangolera, Traditional Authority Kyungu in Karonga the northern district of Malawi on Thursday destroyed properties and houses of some elderly people who believed they were witches. Karonga Police deputy spokesperson George Mulewa confirmed the incident, saying the community accused them of being involved in witchcraft. […]
Nkhunga First Grade Magistrate (FGM) Court in Nkhotakota on Friday convicted and sentenced 42 year old Rangerson Mashikudu to 19 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for removing private body parts of 18 year old boy (name withheld). The State, through Inspector Wills Asibu, heard that on August 30, last year (2016) the suspect and […]
An elderly woman, Agnes Mkwanda, was on Tuesday beaten to death at her house in Lilongwe after she had reacted to a child for accusing her of practicing witchcraft. Kanengo Police confirmed the incident saying Mkwanda was brutally murdered at her house at Kaombalichero Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Chimutu in Lilongwe and that her […]
Health workers are shunning transfers to Fulirwa Health Centre in the southern part of the lakeshore district of Karonga over witchcraft. Communities around the health centre, which is in the area of Senior Chief Wasambo, now have to travel long distances of up to 20 kilometers to access health services at Chilumba rural hospital. Nicholas […]
An angry mob in Blantyre stoned to death a 73-year-old woman for allegedly being a ‘witch’. The incident happened Tuesday and meanwhile police have arrested five people in connection to the incident. Blantyre police assistant Public Relations Officer, Andrew Mayawo identified the deceased as Esmy Andrew Khanawe of Mbala village, T/A Somba. “On Monday (12th December) Khanawe’s […]
Association of Secular Humanism executive director George Thindwa has ruled out that two convicts in Karonga who are bleating like goats is as a result of magic after they stole goats in the districts. The two men, Donald Mwalughali, 26 and Safari Mkandawire, 29 have been put in a special ward at Karonga Dictrict Hospital […]
Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times Wealth seekers have killed yet another person with albinism, bringing the number of those killed to 18 so far as civil society groups presented a petition to the Office of the President and Cabinet to stop the killings. Ntcheu Police spokesperson Gift Matewere identified the deceased as Fletcher Masina, 38, […]