Leader of People’s Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale, has been branded an outcast by senior chiefs from Mulanje and Thyolo for calling on the two tea growing districts to become a ‘sovereign state’ over land wrangles. Wandale has said Malawi Government as well as President Peter Mutharika have failed to resolve the long-standing land wrangle […]
Officials from Malawi and South Africa are discussing on how best South Africa can minimise the detention of Malawian economic refugees who are usually rounded up, bundled in police vehicles and dumped at Lindera camp. Former minister of Foreign Affairs George Chaponda who had been appointed agriculture minister in a cabinet reshuffle said this at […]
Mwanza District Council intends to establish a female sex workers alliance as a way of curbing the spread of HIV and Aids in the border district. Mwanza District Aids Coordinator, Pearson Mphangwe said this when he updated DACC members of the formation of the grouping. He said the formulation of the alliance would give sex […]
Secretary to Treasury, Dr. Ronald Mangani has described the newly launched Malawi Public Policy Research and Analysis Project (MPPRAP) as a get way and a useful framework in promoting the conduct of deep research and analysis on topical issues of national socio-economic significance. According to Mangani, the Project has been long awaited by the academic […]
In an effort to tighten security in the district, Police in Balaka district east of Malawi are keeping in custody 28 people after they were arrested on various offences in a sweeping exercise. Balaka Police Station Operations Officer, Superintendent Gideon Chisale, says 21 of the suspects were arrested for being found loitering within Balaka town, […]
Malawians are facing a health epidemic as officials from government are expressing concern that diabetes is rising fast in Malawi and could surpass malaria as a major killer if not checked. The true horrifying scale of which is only just becoming apparent, the prevalence rate of the disease has shot up to six percent from […]
A 40 year old Mozambican refugee in Nsanje is in police custody for allegedly defiling his 10 year old biological daughter. Nsanje police spokesperson Agnes Zalakomwa said the girl complained to camp leader at Dindi Primary school that her father had defiled her. The camp leader, according to Zalakomwa immediately informed the police who took […]
Malawi and US governments have joined hands to fight rampant drug thefts in Malawi which is costing both governments about US$11 million (over MK7 billion) per year. Speaking at Bingu International Conventional Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe alongside the launch of two campaigns to fight drug theft in the country. The Global Fund campaign, ‘I Speak […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Corporation Dr George Chaponda has ordered a recall of two officials at the Malawi Embassy in Ethiopia on allegations of defrauding government money amounting to over $30,000 ( K20 million). Chaponda confirmed to Nyasa Times that the suspended officials are deputy ambassador Doreen Kapanga (former police deputy chief) and Fletcher […]
A senior chief of Ngoni in Mzimba has described as naïve suggestions from some quarters that the powerful Ngoni district of Mzimba be dismantled into three. Inkosi Kampingo Sibande said those propagating for the split are myopic and naïve and will regret later if they are humans. “Government does not allocate development resources in a […]
The National Director for Pontifical Missionary Societies (ECM) of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), Fr. Vincent Mwakhwawa has called on the local clergy to embrace the spirit of self reliance as one way of animating the people of God on Missionary Cooperation. Fr. Mwakhwawa was speaking at a meeting for the Association of Diocesan […]
United Nations Commission for Human Rights has expressed concern over the surge of killings in Malawi, saying in the last two months, 16 people have been killed. The commission says in a statement the killings through mob justice or for whatever motive are deplorable and must be discouraged. The Geneva based UN body has since […]
The integration of FDH Bank and Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) will see some 250 jobs being declared redundant, FDH Financial Holdings have said. In a statement released Wednesday signed by FDH Group Head of Marketing Sobhuza Ngwenya, FDH which acquired 80% shareholding in MSB on July 2, 2015, said the operational requirements and the need […]
A notorious habitual thief who escaped from Mangochi prison mid March is back in prison after he was caught stealing in a house he broke into on April 2. Mangochi Police assistant spokesperson Amina Daudi confirmed that Esau Donald has been thrown back behind bars after he broke into the house of Pastor Isaac Bingu. […]
Government says it is working out modalities on how Mozambicans living on border districts with Malawi can pay for health services they access in public hospitals. Minister of Health Peter Kumpalume said this on Tuesday in Blantyre when he visited College of Medicine campus of the University of Malawi. ”We are working out modalities on […]
A Briton arrested in Malawi over allegations of child trafficking has been denied bail. Malawi Police arrested Roy Micheal Robson on Sunday on allegations that he had trafficked five female and two male infants from Mzuzu to Lilongwe. Robson was arrested with his accomplice, a Malawian national Rabson Mwale. Levison Mangani, prosecuting, told Lilongwe Magistrate […]
President Peter Mutharika said on Tuesday he is pleased with the announcement by African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina about the increase of financial support to Malawi from K212 billion (US$310million) to K400 billion US$578million during the 2016/17 financial year. The AfDB has made a further commitment of $1 million immediately for […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has blamed owners of Dreamfoam Mattress shop in Blantyre for the fire that gutted down the shop on Tuesday afternoon. The shop which is situated along Haile Sellasie road in the town of Blantyre, caught fire which razed property worth thousands of Kwachas. Escom officials were called in to help put […]