Eric Aniva, a Nsanje commercial sex ‘hyena’ who slept with 104 young girls and widows since 1985 in an outdated sexual cleansing ritual, has been remanded at Nsanje Prison after he was charged with prohibition of harmful practices. He is the first to be charged with the offence which is under Gender Equality Act. Aniva […]
President Peter Mutharika says he has ordered the Foreign Affairs ministry to make arrangements to repatriate 57 young Malawians who were intercepted as they were being trafficked to South Africa. Mutharika said he was briefed on the matter soon after the chidren were rescued. “My government is working with the government of South Africa on […]
Malawi Law Society (MLS) has been summoned by the High Court in Blantye to participate in the disciplinary proceedings actions against lawyer Christopher Chiphwanya of Denning Chamberson allegations that he abandoned his practice without making appropriate arrangements for his clients money. The court has summone the law society to participate in the proceedings through its […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika has said government will introduce a tougher legistlation to crack down on sex predators including those practising traditional ritual cleasing ceremonies. Mutharika said on BBC Focus on Africa program that his government has taken strong action following a report of the Nsanje man who confessed to defiling young girls and sleeping […]
Former Minister of Information, Moses Kunkuyu has asked President Peter Mutharika to avoid burying his head in the sand but act swiftly on the controversial fees hike currently rocking the University of Malawi (Unima) to prevent a replica of the ugly scenes of the academic freedom saga where his unwarranted silence as Education Minister in […]
Malawi government is working on banning harmful cultural practises following revelations of a rular man from Nsanje, Eric Aniva who confessed to defiling young girls and sleeping with widows when he was HIV positive. Aniva, who has since been arrested after Presidential directive when the news about his confession was on BBC, was practising the […]
An accident at Chisombezi Bridge in Chiradzulu along Robert Mugabe Highway has claimed lives of four people asa bus they were travelling on rolled over three times after one of its tyre burst on Tuesday evening. According to an eyewitness, Patrick Sam, there were about 15 passengers in the bus, four died on the spot; […]
Students at Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN) – a constituent of the Univerfsity of Malawi – on Wednesday took time off from their year end examinations to hold peaceful protests, calling on President Peter Mutharika to break his silence on the fee hike impasse. The Wednesday protests in both Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses were in […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have rushed to a remote village where a nine year old boy has died in a Yao initiation camp called Jando in the district. Police spokesperson in Kasungu Margret Mzingwitsa confirmed the death of Julius Sayineti on Tuesday. “We don’t know the cause of the death but a team of police […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji have arrested a jealousy husband who on Tuesday slit the throats of his wife of many years after suspecting her she was flirting with another man. Police officer in charge in Mchinji Maxmus Bakili identified the deceased woman as Alinafe Kalirani whom he said had her throat slit by her husband […]
In what seems like in “A Most Wanted Man” conspiracy movie by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Justice Micheal Mtambo’s epistle that convicted former Minister of Justice Raphael Kasambara is strangely unavailable. Various sources have confided and collaborated that it is unusual for a judgement of that magnitude not to be available on both hard and soft […]
Prophetess Mary Bushiri, a wife to the Malawi’s South Africa – based prominent prophet Shepherd Bushiri who has since been branded “Major 1” championed a landmark conference which attracted over 100, 000 attendants on July 23 in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria which she discussed issues of love, marriage, faithfulness, raising children, the main values in […]
Fifty-seven Malawian children between the ages of 11 and 21 have been rescued from three suspected human traffickers in South Africa. Three Malawian nationals who were transporting the children have since been arrested by South African police. Accoridng to Times Live, the suspectes appeared briefly at the Rustenburg Regional Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. Their […]
– A Malawian ‘hyena’ who sexually initiates 12-year-old girls was arrested on Tuesday, July 26 – Eric Aniva practised a tradition that allowed him to sexually initiate young girls into womanhood – Malawi’s President Mutharika ordered for his immediate arrest after a BBC documentary exposed him Malawi Police in Nsanje say they are looking for nine […]
President Peter Mutharika has ordered a thorough investigation into allegations that parents and village elders were handing over girls, as younger as 12 to sleep with 40 year old Eric Aniva who has since been arrested. Aniva, in his own confession to BBC and other local media organisations, said he had slept with 104 young […]
Atleast 24 students from Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima), have come forward seeking compensation, claimed they were assaulted and brutalised by the police in Zomba during the anti university fee hike violent protests. Chancellor College Students Union president Ayuba James confirmed that the 24 are willing to prove that […]
Government has made a dramatic u-turn on street beggars, saying they will not be forced off streets but they will be financed to start businesses instead. This comes months after the radical combative crusader of the exercise, Patricia kaliati, was moved from the Gender, Disability and Social Services ministry to become Information Minister. Ministry of […]
A renowned economist has expressed worry over government’s slowness on pouncing on those who plunder public financial resources, saying this gives encouraging signals to public purse thieves. Ben Kalua, an economist at Chancellor College was commenting on reports that the government is reluctant to act on suspects of K1.3 billion Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi […]