Former Foreign Affairs minister George Chaponda now holding the agriculture portfolio in Peter President Mutharika’s cabinet and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) head Lucas Kondowe have been summoned by the United Nations (UN) over unpaid allowances to Malawi Defence Forces (MDF) soldiers. A team of international investigative journalists are probing the issue after it was discovered […]
Auditor General Stepheson Kamphasa has confirmed that he has been appointed in a three-member team to probe into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body involving senior managers including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga. Kamphasa has been appointed alongside retired Supreme Court Judge Duncan Tambala and Rex Harawa, managing partner for AMG Global- certified […]
Malawi Law Society (MLS) has said the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has its operational independence compromised in the the trial involving former president Bakili Muluzi and his the personal assistant Lyness Violey Whisky. Muluzi, who ruled the southern African country between 1994 and 2004, and his co-accused, Whisky,stand accused of diverting at least US$ 13 […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has commended United Kingdom’s Prince Harry for his commitment to wildlife conservation. Mutharika said this in a brief statement he posted on his official Instragram page after he had an audience with Prince Harry who has been in Malawi since July 27 on a private visit that among other things is […]
President Peter Mutharika on Thursday hosted a high-level meeting with Malawi’s donors where they discussed ways how they should implement the country’s food insecurity response plan. The meeting which was held at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe followed a request by the development partners for the two sides to create a unified working relationship for the […]
Former cabinet minister who also served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Thyolo North during the United Front Democratic (UDF) government, Rolf Patel is embroiled in a controversial court case in which he is being accused of taking advantage of a bed-ridden business associate, Luka Sam Zumazuma, to force him sell prime land at Chigumula […]
Mzuzu Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced a 29 year old man to 16 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a nine-year-old girl. The court heard that Joseph Gomani Banda defiled the child on 15th June, 2016, at Sonda Location in the city when he met her on one of the roads in the location. […]
A South Korean woman was found hanging from a tree at Green House Lodge compound located at Area 43 in Lilongwe on Tuesday morning, Police have said. Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer (PRO) Inspector Kingsley Dandaula identified the deceased person as Mrs Soon Deknoh 71, Director of Green House Lodge and Restaurant. Dandaula said […]
Minister of Information, ICT and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has called on journalists in the country to investigate and get first hand information from communities when writing development stories. Kaliati said journalists should use bottom-up approach to cover real issues affecting people. Kaliati said this in Blantyre on Wednesday during the opening of a two […]
Seven people have died in an accident on Thursday morning involving bus that was travelling from Blantyre to Lilongwe at Mlengani Trading Centre in Ntcheu while several others have sustained injuries. The bus belonging to Premier Bus Services had over 60 people on board, according to Gift Matewere,the police spokesperson for Ntcheu. He said, the bus […]
Former justice minister Ralph Kasambara (Senior Counsel), convicted last month alongside Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe on the charge of conspiracy to murder former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo will have to wait longer for an appeal bid as his matter has not yet reached the Supreme Court of Malawi over two weeks […]
An identified naked man is being accused of attempted murder after a Muslim cleric was stabbed at a mosque in Nkhotakota. Police spokesperson of Nkhotakota, Williams Kaponda said Sheikh Namandwa Ainani (57) of Malenga village in the area of senior chief Malengachanzi was early 10 August, 2016 stabbed with a spear as he was to […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court on Tuesday sentenced to nine years imprisonment with hard labour a 28-year-old man Kingsley Jere for robbing K2 million. Jere and his two accomplices, still at large, committed the offence on 14ht July, 2014 in Chemusa Township in Blantyre. They robbed Stanley Wasi at gun point. Police managed to arrest Jere on […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre on Tuesday arrested 32 people during a sweeping exercise conducted in Ndirande Township, Wenela bus depot and within the Blantyre city center. Police assistant Public Relations Officer, Andrew Mayawo told Nyasa Times that the sweeping exercise was staged in reaction to a series of crimes that have occurred recently within Blantyre. The law-enforcers […]
President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday cancelled his official scheduled engagements in Lilongwe and Salima. No reasons have been given for the cancellation. The President was supposed to have a whistle stop tour in some parts of Lilongwe and open a cane factory in Salima. State controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation said the President would open the […]
An alleged shop lifting thief suffered the most brutal mob justice in Malawi’s tobacco growing district of Kasungu when irate residents took the law in their hands by sentencing him to death with beating . Police deputy spokesperson,Harry Namwaza said the suspected thief, whose particulars are not known yet,on Tuesday, August 9 allegedly stole trousers in a shop behind […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has appointed High Court Judge Lloyd Muhara as Deputy Chief Secretary of government. According to a statement signed by Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa, Muhara appointment is with immediate effect. “The President of the Republic of Malawi …. Peter Mutharika in exercise of his powers confered to him by the constitution of […]
Over 3000 ex Malawi Young Pioneers (MCP) fighters have threatened an unspecified action if government fails to pay them compensation for loss of job. The group’s spokesperson Grey Chisale said after the ex MYP fighters received their gratuity, they wrote the Office of the President and Cabinet seeking compensation for loss of job after Malawi […]