Malawi Police have sent criminal investigation officers in Tanzania to hunt for a man who on Saturday chopped the hand of a woman with albinism in Chitipa and run away with it. Chitipa Police spokesperson Gladwell Simwaka said the law enforcers have since arrested a Malawian accomplice who allegedly chopped off the hand of Lucia […]
The bones of Fletcher Masina, an albino who was murdered last month in Ntcheu have been taken to Ntcheu from Salima and are expected to be presented in court as prime evidence, police have said. Police in Salima last week arrested 11 people in connection with the murder of 45-year-old Masina in Ntcheu in what […]
High Court judge in Mzuzu, Dingiswayo Madise has granted three-Mzuzu residents an injunction banning herbalists from operating in Malawi as one way of curbing the attacks on persons with albinism. The injunction has been obtained on the premise that herbalists are fueling attacks on persons with albinism in Malawi. “After the request of the three […]
Police in Salima district on Wednesday arrested two men for found in possession of eight human bones which were suspected at Chipoka roadblock. According to the Salima Police Station Criminal Investigations Officer Superintendent Arnold Sikumbiri, the suspects are Keneth Nkhoma of 27 years from Zitambira village in the area of Traditional Authority Chakhumbira in Ntcheu […]
Relations are the ones on forefront fuelling the abduction and killing of people with albinism aside exhuming their body parts, Malawi police have said. And while concurring with the police, Association of Persons with Albinism (APA) has also blamed the increased albino killings on conmen. Speaking during Tikhale Tcheru programme monitored on MBC television, National […]
The High Court in Blantyre is yet to assign a judge on a landmark case in which 10 people are accused of murdering four elderly people in Mwanza on allegations of witchcraft. Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula said in an interview the court is yet to assign a judge to the case and did not indicate […]
Residents of Msemwe village Traditional Authority (T/A) Simphasi in Mchinji woke up in awe on Monday morning when they discovered the body of a 20-year-old man with albinism exhumed from the grave. Patrick Katutu, a teacher at Mbachundu Primary School which is near the graveyard told Mana that villagers were surprised to see a coffin […]
Two Mozambican herbalists have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Malawian 17-years-old albino Fletcher Machinjiri late last month by convicted Malawian nationals Vuto Biswick and Emmanuel Robert. Dedza Police Deputy Piblicist Cassim Manda said the arrest of the two herbalists Tafatatha Chithanyula (60 years old) and Madalitso Tafatatha was the done after […]
Two men have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Malawi after being found guilty of murdering an albino Davis Fretcher Machinjiri a week ago. The two heard through state prosecutor assistant Superintendent Patrick Bean Chambuluka that Vuto Biswick and Emmanuel Robert on the 23 April 2016 at Chimoto village in the area of traditional […]
The United Nations’ top expert on albinism said on Friday in Lilongwe that people with albinism in Malawi are at risk of “systemic extinction” if they continue to be murdered for their body parts for use in witchcraft. Ikponwosa Ero, herself an albino, people with albinism are “an endangered people group facing a risk of […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have launched an intensive campaign against the killings of people with albinism and the launch took place on Wednesday in Kapelera village where the last, so far, two year old girl was abducted from her sleeping mat and brutally murdered. Kasungu Police Station office Ax Muwanya said the law enforcers partnered […]
People with albinism on Sunday gathered in Kasungu to commemorate the life of two year old girl killed last month because of her albinism status. Led by Boniface Massa, chairman of the Association of People Living with Albinism, the light skinned people held prayers and sang hymns at Chaziya Village in Chief Kapelera Village as […]
Police in Kasungu have arrested father to a two year old albino girl in the district whose skull, teeth and clothes were found on Wednesday two weeks after she disappeared from her home. Kasungu police deputy spokesperson Harry Namwaza confirmed the arrest of the father and his alleged accomplice in connection with the murder of […]
Presbyterian churches top council, the CCAP General Assembly says the current spate of albino killings and mob justice could be as a result of social problems affecting Malawi including lack of development. CCAP General Assembly Moderator Timothy Nyasulu said this after meeting President Peter Mutharika Thursday in Blantyre. Nyasulu said the government must scale up […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has renewed his vows to ensure that his government will punish those behind a series of albino killings following attacks from human body parts sellers. The latest case was the beheading of a boy in Machinga District. Mutharika said the attacks and killings of the people living with albinism has brought […]
Malawi Police in eastern district of Machinga are holding an uncle to a slain nine year old boy with albinism whose body is still missing after his severed head was found wrapped in a piece of cloth in another village. Police in Machinga confirmed the arrest of Elias Chatha, an uncle to murdered Henry Mokoshoni. […]
Few days ago I had an opportunity to closely work and plan with people with Albinism for the first time in years. How impressed I was with them as I learnt a lot about their humility, humane, humbleness, care and intellect. But my interaction with them is totally different to what is going on in […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu are hunting for unknown criminals who over the weekend exhumed remains of a person with albinism from a graveyard at Mnyanja Village, Sub-T/A Chitanthamapiri in the district. Kasungu Police Deputy Public Relations Officer Constable Harry Namwaza confirmed the development. Namaza said the suspected criminals dug out a grave of 14-year-old Martha […]