Malawi Police in Rumphi are investigating one of their officers who is alleged to have defiled a 12 year old girl in Livingstonia in the district. Rumphi Police Station Officer, Senior Superintendent, Charles Mpezeni, confirmed the development in an interview with Malawi News Agency. He identified the policeman being investigated as Constable Clever Mtengerenji who […]
Malawian girls from Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande and other parts of Mzimba district are being trafficked for marriages to Malawian men working in South Africa. The marriages are said to be initiated by parents who want to benefit from their girl children in form of money (dowry) and other materials from the men working in […]
Officials from Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), a civil rights arm of the Catholic church has urged government to come out clearly and say whether there will be niobium mining at Kanyika in Mzimba or not. CCJP coordinator in Mzimba Anorlld Msimuko said it was a disgrace that families were removed from the […]
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) tenants have asked the government to honour long dwelling tenants by giving them the houses for free. This was said at a meeting on Thursday minister of Lands and Housing Atupele Muluzi held with them in Blantyre. Representative of the tenants Mervin Kaumphawi said there was need for the government to […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) on Friday took his charity initiative under ‘Prophetic Channel Aid’ to Nathenje in Lilongwe for a donation of maize to 3,000 households but also gave cash handouts to other 3,000 households who could not get the staple. South Africa-based Bushiri who started his a maize donation […]
Inkosi Kampingo Sibande of Mzimba has vowed to fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child labour which have been on the rise in his area. The influential chief made the remarks on Thursday at his Eswazini headquarters during a day long sensitization meeting organized by Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) with support from the NGO Genger […]
Malawi girls are fast becoming an extremely endangered species with the news making headlines . day in day out is that of sexual defilement and rape cases. It is evolving into a crisis that needs to be addressed, In Mulanje, a 15-year-old boy, Hassan Pathasen is currently in police custody for allegedly defiling an 8-year-old […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), have come out strongly to condemn the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse of a child by Lilongwe gay man, Kelvin Gonani. It was reported that Gonani had been subjected to a homophobic beating in Lilongwe by some unknown assailants. […]
A Ward Councillor in Mangochi identified as Shadreck Chibondo Banda has been robbed K2.8million of Local Development Fund in a Lodge in Mangochi, Nyasa Times can reveal. This happened on February 10 2016 in the lakeshore district of Mangochi. Although the Police are yet to come up with an official version of the circumstances surrounding […]
There is controversy over the recent appointment of Mervis Mangulenje as Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) board chairperson as the appointment is said not to have the blessings of President Peter Mutharika. Nyasa Times sources can reveal Mutharika has since summoned officials from Statutory Corporation and Office of the President and Cabinet to explain how […]
Malnutrition is stalking Malawi’s only refugee camp, Dzaleka, after rations were slashed following funding cutbacks by the international donor community. The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)Southern Africa spokesperson, Tina Ghelli, said that a humanitarian disaster is looming among the 24 000 refugees at the camp, which lies about 45km from Lilongwe. “Children less than […]
High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned a case involving convicted former tourism assistant Leonard Kalonga to February 29. On August 26, 2015 the court convicted Kalonga on his own plea of guilty for stealing K3.7 billion ($6.3 million) in the ongoing Cashgate trials. He was set to hear his sentence on Thursday but has to […]
Malawi government has restricted diplomats and heads of international organisations accredited to the country that they cannot willy-nilly meet President Peter Mutharika. In a correspondence to the diplomatic community under Note No. 05/2016 which Nyasa Times has seen, the Ministry OF Foreign Affairs said all appointments with the Head of State “can only be granted” in the […]
Malawi government’s lack of seriousness has forced the World Bank to delay the release of US$25 million [about K18 billion] for the rehabilitation of the Karonga-Songwe Border road project that was expected to commence this year, Nyasa Times can reveal. Minister of Transport and Public Works, Francis Kasaila, had told parliament during its last sitting […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri has come to the rescue of thousands of starving families in Zomba district by providing them with the scarce maize – the main staple. Bushiri who arrived in the country through Chileka Airport in Blantyre on Wednesday proceed to Zomba where he gave villagers a lifeline through a relief […]
Mkukula Magistrate’s Court in Dowa has sentenced a 22-year-old man to two years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for assaulting his wife with a panga knife. According to Kanengo Police spokesperson, Sub Inspector Esther Mkwanda, the man identified as Blessings Tembo stabbed his wife Alinafe Yokoniya (19) after she had refused to have sexual intercourse […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe are still hunting for a Gule Wamkulu cult member, one month after it allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old boy on the head with a metal bar leaving him unconscious. The boy identified as Lewis Patrick and a pupil at Mbayani Full Primary School in Blantyre is still unconscious at Kamuzu Central Hospital […]
After donating to Ntcheu and Dowa in the central region, leader and founder of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has once again jetted in the country via Chileka Airport for a planned series of maize donation in the Southern part of Malawi. Speaking on arrival from his base in South Africa, Bushiri […]