Month: January 2016 Posts

Albino abductor arrested

Jan 26, 2016 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 48 &

Malawi Police in Machinga district are keeping in custody a 24 year-old man for attempting to abduct a person with albinism. According to Machinga police spokesperson Davie Sulumba, the suspect tried to entice the potential victim’s… ...

Albino’s grave found tampered with in Balaka district

Jan 18, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 23 &

Malawi Police in Balaka district are hunting for unknown criminals who have tampered with a grave of an albino in the district. Balaka Police Public Relations Officer Inspector Joseph Sauka told Malawi24 that the incident… ...

Graveyard trespassing lands four men in custody

Oct 08, 2015 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 27 &

Four Malawian men are in police in custody for trespassing into a graveyard where they were exhuming bones of dead person who lived with albinism, police officials in Kasungu district say. Police identified the suspects… ...

Father arrested over attempts to sell step son with albinism

Oct 01, 2015 Happy Arnold Soko 39 &

Malawi Police in Mzimba on Monday arrested and are keeping in custody Christopher Kumwenda for allegedly trying to sell his four year old step son with albinism. According to Police in the district, Kumwenda conspired… ...

Battle against attacks on albinos rages on

Sep 24, 2015 Victoria Milanzi 9 &

The Association of People Living with Albinism in Malawi has expressed dissatisfaction with the way courts are handling cases involving albino killings, abductions, and exhuming of graves saying courts are taking time to conclude cases.… ...