Month: September 2016 Posts

Malawi sex cleansing practices : Nsanje hyena trial shifted to Blantyre

Sep 30, 2016 Chilenje Chilenje 39 &

The Nsanje Magistrate court has shifted to Blantyre the case of Eric Aniva who is accused of sexually abusing scores of girls and young women under the pretext of culture. Aniva is answering the charge… ...

Malawi sex cleansing practices: NGO to conduct ‘Hyena must die’ campaign

Sep 03, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 0 &

A non-governmental organisational which works with children says it will conduct a Hyena must die campaign to deal with the hyena culture in Nsanje district. The organisation, Centre for Children Affairs, says the campaign will… ...

Malawi sex cleansing practices : Nsanje hyena accomplice freed

Aug 08, 2016 Mwayi Mkandawire 44 &

The Nsanje first grade magistrate court has discharged hyena Eric Aniva's accomplice, Theniford Jampa, Malawi24 can report. Aniva who is infected with HIV and has over the past years been paid to sleep with young girls in Nsanje district,… ...

Malawians blame chiefs over hyena practices

Aug 04, 2016 Luke Bisani 36 &

Malawians in the country have blamed traditional leaders for being behind harmful cultural practices arguing that the chiefs encourage the practices. The development comes at a time when Malawi has made international headlines following a… ...

Arresting Aniva is not a good idea, Mr President

Jul 31, 2016 José Safarao 73 &

I know there is that pressure when the whole world is laughing at you. I have received calls and Facebook messages from as far afield as the United States and Japan, from acquaintances I last… ...

‘Malawi President is the worst hyena than Aniva: Mutharika is promoting child pornography’

Jul 30, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 151 &

Malawi president Peter Mutharika has come under fire for being a patron of a cultural group that promotes practices that have been described as constituting child pornography and child sexual abuse likened to the conduct… ...

Mr President, in Malawi, hyenas exist in both high and low places, arrest them all

Jul 29, 2016 Wise One From the East 53 &

In Malawi, just in the past two weeks forty eight people have been arrested. Sixteen were students from the Chancellor College, the Polytechnic contributed fourteen, and the Kamuzu College of Nursing’s quota was seventeen, all for… ...