POLICE in Namwala are investigating a matter in which parents allegedly gave traditional medication to their 18-year-old daughter to abort a six-month pregnancy. It is alleged that her parents wanted her to get married to a man she did not love after her boyfriend, whose relationship they did not approve of, made her pregnant. “On February 6, 2026, at 16:00 hours, Macha Police Station received a report of procuring an abortion from an 18-year-old female of Shambwati Village, Chief Muchila, Namwala District. She reported that her parents allegedly administered traditional medicine to her to terminate her six-month pregnancy. The incident occurred on January 1, 2026, at Shambwati Village, Chief Muchila, Namwala District. Brief facts of the matter are that in...