Police in Machinga have discovered human bones near Liwonde Bus Depot with a payslip of a pensioner bearing the name Daniel Michael of Siyama Village, Traditional Authority Liwonde, Machinga on the bones. Detective Inspector Blackson Muheya of Liwonde Police said a young man who went to wee in the nearby bush discovered the bones and […]
A 40-years-old woman has been arrested in Phalombe district for allegedly exhuming bones of an albino who died three years ago. Magret Gelezi who was arrested on Thursday, is said to have committed the offence together with her son, Goodson Salure who is currently on the run. Phalombe police publicist, Augustus Nkhwazi told Nyasa Times that […]
Tension has gripped a village of Group Headman Chawuteka in the area of Senior Traditional Authority Wasambo in Karonga after over 28 houses have been set ablaze by neighbouring community over witchcraft claims. According to the Senior Chief Wasambo, the development have occurred during the night of Wednesday as the angry community of Group Village […]
Medson Selemani who murdered his cousin Janet Chitedze and mutilated her private parts at Shadreck Village in Mchinji district says he was told he would be K14 Million richer by a Mozambizan witch doctor. Selemani who was on the run, was arrested by Mchinji Police at Namitete in Lilongwe on Saturday. He told Mana that […]
Blantyre Magitsrate Court has convicted and senteed to six years prison a 24-year-old man for being found in possession of a uterus, a female organ that contained a developing foetus, which police claim he intended to sell to a traditional doctor. Charles Nyasulu was charged with selling and possessing body tissues contrary to section 16(a) […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has directed all security agencies in the country to be on high alert to catch and punish those behind a series of albino killings. He told a news conference in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday that the attacks on albinos are barbaric and ordered security agencies to intensify a manhunt for […]
The Chitipa Magistrate Court has sentenced two men Moses Msukwa, 20, and Flackson Masebo, 19, to 32 years imprisonment with hard labour each for torching four houses whose owners they suspected are witches. According to prosecutor Blackson Sichali the two torched the houses of Esther Mushani and Mayinala Mwenechanya and two others – both in the […]
Barely few days after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned violent attacks against people with albinism in Malawi, an 11-year-old albino boy escaped possible death when some unknown criminals attempted to abduct him in the eastern region district of Balaka. According to Balaka police publicist Sub Inspector Joseph Sauka, the incident happened at […]
Police in the tea-growing distrist of Mulanje are hunting for a Mozambican man suspected to be bdistrict behind the death of a 25-year-old woman living with albinism who was killed for ritual purposes. A woman identified as Violet Kanyama was murdered on Wednesday evening in Gwana Village in the district, and the law enforcers have started hunting […]
Unknown thugs reportedly killed a 25-year-old woman living with albinism in Mulanje district for ritual purposes. Police confirmed that the woman identified as Violet Kanyama was murdered on Wednesday evening in Gwana Village in the mountainous southern region district. Albinism is a genetically inherited condition, in which people lack pigmentation. Witchdoctors reportedly buy albino body […]
Malawi Police in southern district of Mwanza have arrested a 27-year-old herbalist they believe exhumed the body of a new born baby and removed some parts barely a week after it was buried. The suspect, identified as Stanley Watison Mphonde, a renowned herbalist in the district, will answer charges of trespassing into a graveyard and […]
A 35 year old woman from Mnkhwani Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chief Ganya in Ntcheu was Thursday morning found dead in a garden near her home without private parts. Confirming the incident, Ntcheu Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Hastings Chigalu said the deceased; Yokoleta Bauleni Wednesday left her home at around 6.00 […]
Malawi Police is investigating an illicit trade of human body parts after unknown people are said to be exhuming and extracting bones from dead bodies in Traditional Authorities Chowe and Kapoloma in Malawi’s eastern district of Machinga. It is reported that people removed heels and knee cartilage from the bodies of diseased people, extracted bone […]
A young Malawi man has his international headlines for allowing a hyena to chew off his genitals as part of a bizarre ritual which he hoped would make him rich. Chamangeni Zulu, from Malawi, has been hospitalised at Chipata General Hospital in Zambia, near the Malawi border, after he allowed the hyena to eat his […]
It’s no rumour, but about three people, and probably more, have disappeared in Lilongwe, victims of some underground movement that people link to Satanic cult. Reports indicate a 23 year old resident in Mgona location who sat his MSCE and passed, disappeared last Sunday 9th February. He called his sister based in Dubai Area 49 […]
A village headman in the northern region district of Mzimba plus three others have been arrested for the murder of an aged couple which they suspected of practicing witchcraft and being behind the death of one of their relatives. Nyasa Times has confirmed the arrest of village headman Chiwelam’buwu real name Edson Ng’oma (42), Stocker […]
A Calvary Family Church (CFC) Pastor in Blantyre sent mourners in stitches when he challenged people priding in underhand innovations like witchcraft to come in the open and declare their inventions to the United Nations (UN) if they were worth bragging about. Delivering a sermon at the funeral service of Chimwemwe Moto in Blantyre’s low […]
President Joyce Banda on Saturday called on Malawians to desist referring to old people as witches and respect them. Belief in witchcraft runs deep alongside Christianity in Malawi and the elderly are mostly suspects. The Malawi leader hosted senior citizens from the Central Region to a luncheon and event dubbed “Bring a Blanket” at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. In […]