Owen Khamula -NyasaTimes Malawi Law Society officials say they have now completed analysing 270 complaints involving misbehaving lawyers and have since asked the Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale to inform the Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda to take action. President of the Malawi Law Society (MLS) John Suzi Banda said the society had earlier received over 400 […]
Officials from the Immigration Department are over the moon, they are patting each other on the back for managing to collect K1.5 billion more than they were asked to collect. Spokesperson for the department Wellington Chiponde attributed the beating of the set target of K4.2 billion to K5.7 billion, an increase of 136 percent to […]
Prince Henderson – ECM The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa. (AMECEA) Executive Board has appointed Reverend Father Emmanuel Chimombo from Malawi as AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator to be based in Nairobi, Kenya. Announcing the appointment in a statement by the Secretary General for the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), Father Henry Saindi said […]
Maston Kaiya –Mana Lingadzi Police are keeping in custody James Makina, 25, suspected of inhumanely ridiculing a 19 year-old man with albinism at Kang’oma in Lilongwe. The arrest comes in the wake of the action week on fighting crimes against people with albinism. Lilongwe Police Station Spokesperson Inspector Kingsley Dandaula identified the man with albinism […]
Thom Chiumia –Nyasa Times The Ethics, Peace and Justice Commission (EPJC), a special Commission of the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM), has called for an end to all brutal killings and persecutions on persons with albinism arguing that the lives of persons with albinism matter. At least 18 persons with Albinism have been killed since […]
Tiwonge Kumwenda –Nyasa Times Two convicts in Karonga are the centre of attraction at Karonga District Hospital because they are bleating and behaving like dogs, jumping up and down in goat style forcing prison officials to chain them. The two; 26 year old Daudi Mwalughali and 29 year old Safari Mkandawire old both of Mwalughali […]
Owen Khamula –Nyasa Times Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Kasaira said three Malawians have died in a road accident in Mozambique out of the nine who were killed in a bus accident near Tete. Katsaira said this in parliament on Wednesday when he gave an impromptu state of affairs of the accident involving a South […]
Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times Wealth seekers have killed yet another person with albinism, bringing the number of those killed to 18 so far as civil society groups presented a petition to the Office of the President and Cabinet to stop the killings. Ntcheu Police spokesperson Gift Matewere identified the deceased as Fletcher Masina, 38, […]
Owen Khamula –Nyasa Times Malawi Police say the former deputy ambassador to Addis Ababa embassy in Ethiopia, Doreen Kapanga remains in police custody in Lilongwe and she is yet to be charged. Deputy national spokesperson for the police Tomeck Nyaude said on Wednesday the police will follow the 48 hour law to bring a suspect […]
Yankho Msukwa –Nyasa Times The Blantyre City Council has said it will prioritize infrastructure development in the 2016/17 fiscal year. Mayor for the City, Noel Chalamanda said this during a budget session for the Blantyre City Council. According to him, the city’s population has grown tremendously within the past few years, hence the need to […]
Tanzania on Tuesday dispatched three boats with 15 rescuers on board in a bid to find bodies of 11 people feared to have died on Lake Malawi, 50 kilometres away from Nkhata Bay Port on Sunday. Tanzania High Commissioner to Malawi Victoria Mwangaseke and Nkhata Bay police officer in charge Gedion Nahumu were at Nkhata […]
Duncan Mlanjira -Nyasa Times Seven young Malawians are set to walk 362kms from the Capital City Lilongwe to Blantyre from May 30 to June 8 to raise funds to equip the High Dependency Unit of Kamuzu Central Hospital’s paediatric ward. The campaign, dubbed ‘Strides of Hope’, is a campaign by a charity organisation called Beyond You. Spokesperson […]
Owen Khamula –Nyasa Times Authorities in Malawi have rushed to Mozambique after reports that a South African bus, carrying 68 passengers, mostly Malawians has been involved in an accident in Mozambique. Mozambican authorities are not releasing the numbers of deaths, if any or casualties but confirmed reports from Malawi indicate that the bus, Nyamende Bus […]
Mphatso Nkhoma – Nyasa Times No room to dose any longer, government has assured Malawians that it is doing everything possible to ensure that no Malawian dies due to hunger in the 2016/2017 agricultural production year, as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda said 1,290,000 metric tonnes is needed to avert worsening […]
Maurice Nkawihe – Nyasa Times Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested the suspended Deputy Ambassador to Ethiopia, Doreen Kapanga, in connection with K293 million theft at the Embassy. Before her appointment to Ethiopia, Kapanga was a Deputy Inspector General of Police. “Yes it is true Mrs Doreen Kapanga has been arrested in connection to Ethiopia […]
Chancy Namadzunda –Nyasa Times Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country have said the country has been dead asleep to act on the rising incidences of attacks, abductions, and killings of people with albinism with calls for life imprisonment for people who attack albinos. The CSOs have further given government a 21 day ultimatum to […]
Football player Edward Nsamala, who played for Dedza Young Soccer Saints, has been killed by a deadly grenade which blasted him in Dedza district bordering Mozambique. It is reported that Nsamala, who was also a wielder, was hit when a grenade blasted his head while doing welding work. Police confirmed the footballer’s tragedy A Mozambican […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has assured Mzuzu flood victims that his administration will continue to support them throughout the period they are getting back to normal life after rain of terror which flooded their homes. Mutharika was speaking at Masasa in Mzuzu when he visited and comforted the people who lost their loved ones and […]