It’s not a joke. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika means his word by saying people should eat mice to cope with a nationwide food crisis as on Friday he retaliated his call during political meetings in the estern city of Zomba. President Mutharika recently told hungry Malawians to eat mice in a bid to curb the scourge […]
Chairperson of Mia Foundation, Sidik Mia has asked Muslims in the country to peacefully coexist with people of other religious affiliations to foster unity for the countrys prosperity. Mia made the call after donating food items meant for breaking Iftah during this Moslem Holy month of Ramadhan in Mangochi on Wednesday. He said it is […]
Members of parliament are most likely to increase following the government decision to allocate K500 million to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for demarcations of constituencies and wards across the country. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe told the eager parliamentarians that he was hopeful that the exercise of demarcation or re demarcation of constituencies will be completed […]
United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Development (DfID) has given Malawi £24 million (about K23 billion) as a contribution to the government’s National Disaster Response Plan, the British High Commission in Lilongwe has said . A statement made available to Nyasa Times says the UK Development Minister Nick Hurd , confirmed the support on Wednesday during a […]
A private plane was forced to land at Ntcheu bus depot on Wednesday evening after it developed a lighting problem causing commotion in the central region district. The plane belongs to a South African couple and was flying from Polokwane in South Africa to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania via Club Makokola in Mangochi, according to Ntcheu Police Station […]
The Senior Resident Magistrate Court sitting at Ntaja on Wednesday sentenced Ngunga Sitande because he was laughing when one of his two friends, who are still at large, called Innocent Simba of 28 years of age, “money”. A 39-year-old man in Machinga district, south-eastern Malawi has been given a three months jail term with hard labor as […]
UK-based Malawian female cleric and activist, Evangelist Elizabeth Kalonga has vehemently reproached the ongoing senseless ritual killings on people with albinism in Malawi, describing it as ‘pure evil’ saying that the country swiftly needs divine intervention. Kalonga urged all stakeholders in the country to gang up to stop the vile act of killing innocent people with albinism , […]
Malawi government has said it will increase its border posts as way of curbing illegal immigrants and to increase more revenue for the cash strapped Malawi. Minister of Lands and Housing Atupele Muluzi said this in parliament when he stood in for minister of Home Affairs Jappie Mhango who was reportedly out for a funeral. […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has announced it has secured K1. 5 billion as starter pack to school the citizenry on the process of getting national identity cards (IDs). The Ministry says its department of National Registration Bureau (NRB) got the approval through the current parliamentary sitting of the 2015/2016 budget meeting. […]
Grain reserves have now been depleted and the country within a month run out of maize which will trigger inflation and the cost of life. The general manager of the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) Nasinuko Saukira has said only four out of the 36 silos have maize which means the country has only 20000 […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said the government this year will employ more waiters for President Peter Mutharika. He said some of the waiters will help during presidential functions to serve people. This comes on the backdrop of a restriction for employment of people in government. He refused to tell […]
Citizen Alliance, Eye for Development with support from Malawi Justice Network and State of the Union(SOTU) has urged Government to do more in protecting people with albinism saying. Citizen Alliance Vice Chair, Thokozani Mkawa, was speaking in Mangochi during national review conference on campaign against the killing people with albinism. Mkawa said it is unfortunate […]
Fire has gutted a shuttle bus belonging to the State owned Lilongwe Handling Company(LIHACO) at the Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in the capital Lilongwe. The incident happened Wednesday at around 8 o’clock in the evening. Senior officials, at Lilongwe Handling Company, have confirmed about the incident . There have been no reports of any injuries. All passengers […]
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder of a boy Chatiki khome at Mbayani squatter township in Blantyre City.The victim, 13, was found with a cut on the forehead, the left side of the head and below the chin while looking after a banana shade.. Blantyre police assistant spokesperson Andrew Mayawo identified the […]
Drought insurance officials will be jetting in the country next week to discuss with the Malawi government why they are refusing to pay drought insurance cover despite harsh weather last year, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said. Gondwe was speaking in parliament on Wednesday after the back benchers queried the […]
Malawi Police in Zomba are keeping in custody a 32 year old man, Jackson Simoko for being suspected to have raped and indecently assaulted two women aged between 20 and 23. According to Police, on Friday the two women visited Simoko, herbalist based at six miles in order to obtain some charms to help them […]
Minister of Agriculture George Chaponda has told parliament that irrigation experts who are supposed to initiate a massive irrigation project to tap water from Lake Malawi are in the country. Chaponda however could not give details on when the work would start of tapping the vast fresh Lake Malawi waters into fields for farming to […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Kasaila has assured parliament that the K23 billion budget for the ministry would not be abused as was the case before saying stringent measures have been put in place to prevent theft of public money including at Malawian embassies across the world. President Peter Mutharika recently ordered that all Malawian […]