A woman in her twenties was on Friday forced to give birth in public transport in Dowa after health workers failed to give her ambulance transport from Mponela Health Centre to Dowa District Hospital due to fuel shortage. Hospital staff at both Mponela Health Centre and Dowa District Hospital confirmed the incident on Saturday describing […]
The US government has come in swiftly and handy to curb rampant medicine drugs in public hospitals by constructing drug warehouses at public health facilities. The US and the Malawi governments have since signed a memorandum of understanding, paving the way for the construction of the warehouses that will now enable authorities determine who went […]
A suspect who was answering charges of trafficking 89 bags of indian hemp was on Thursday found dead in a police cell in Salima after he allegedly committed suicide by stabbing himself with an object in the stomach and chest. Salima police spokesman Gift Chitowe identified the deceased suspect as Alex Juma. Chitowe said the […]
Malawi government says it has finally managed to secure K13 billion in donor money to resuscitate the ailing public hospitals, including the buying of enough food so that patients can have three meals a day. Adrian Chikumbe, spokesman for ministry of health could not however disclose the donors but said they money would be given […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has urged the country’s disciplined forces to remain committed and patriotic in persevering peace in the country just as they do when deployed for international peace keeping mission. He made the remarks on Friday during the commissioning of 45 officer cadets at Malawi Armed Forces College (MAFCO) in Salima. The cadets were commissioned […]
One of the accused person in the shooting of former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo, Mcdonald Kumwembe has mentioned former minister of finance in the United Democratic Front (UDF) government, Friday Jumbe and former Peoples Party official Hophmally Makande as some of his witnesses to testify in court as he enters […]
Information minister Jappie Mhango says government will not be stampeded into passing the Access to Information bill into law under pressure from donors. Mhango said this Thursday during an interview with Capital Radio’s Day Break Malawi program after a journalist told him that the delay in passing the bill is holding K80 billion in European […]
Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Livingstonia Synod on Thursday won the case against break-a-way faction of the Kanengo congregation, in which they were fighting over church premises and property. The High Court in Lilongwe has since ordered the rebellious congregation to vacate the church premises and handover all properties to the Synod including bank […]
Case of Shooting of former budget director in the ministry of Finance, Paul Mphwiyo has now entered defence where first accused Mcdonald Kumwembe ex Malawi Defence Force soldier, second accused businessman Pika Manondo and former justice minister Raphael Kasambara are now defending themselves on charge of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The matter which […]
Nkhoma Hospital and power utility Escom are now engaged in blame game over the death of four patients who died while on oxygen therapy after a power blackout. In a letter to Escom, the Nkhoma Synod of the CCAP run hospital says Escom shoud take full responsibility of the recent deaths, saying the oxygen stopped […]
Police in Mzuzu are keeping in custody 36-year old Noah Kayira for selling and being found in possession medical drugs, including ARVs, suspected to have been stolen from a government hospital. Mzuzu Police publicist Martin Bwanali “confirmed” the development saying they made the arrest Thursday after an anonymous tip. Bwanali said they “recovered a lot […]
Mozambican immigration authorities have deported 34 Malawian nationals two of them women, they suspected to be trafficked to Republic of South Africa. Malawi immigration authorities say the deportees left Malawi for South Africa on December 7 through Dedza border and were arrested in Tete town. They boarded a South African open van registration number NT […]
The United States of America (USA), through its embassy in Lilongwe, has given a $390 000 (K241 million) grant to United Nations (UN) Women Malawi to strengthen the economic empowerment of women and girl survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in the country. According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the grant is expected […]
Police in Mchinji have arrested three men for allegedly murdering 96-year-old Tsekwe Kwachera and dumping him in a well. Mchinji Police Public Relations Officer Moses Nyirenda told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Thursday that the three committed the alleged offense on December 5, 2015. Nyirenda said prime suspect Lyson Phiri, 23, is said to have beaten […]
Out-going church elder for Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Namiwawa, Blantyre is currently in police custody for allegedly threatening the church’s pastor and elders. Nedi Kachimanga, 47, and expected to end his tenure as church elder this month end, was arrested on Wednesday at around 4pm, Blantyre police have confirmed. Blantyre police Public Relations officer, Elizabeth Divala said […]
President Peter Mutharika’s recent foreign sojourn has forced the graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to reschedule the International Anti Corruption Day commemorations which were scheduled for Wednesday in Mulanje to next week. The President was expected to preside over the event as a guest of honour. The postponement has forced the ACB […]
Inmates at Ntcheu prison have demanded that government should provide requisite funds to paralegal officers to start representing accused persons with minor cases in courts, arguing the development would reduce overcrowding in prison cells. The inmates said during the commemoration of World Human Rights Day. “It is worrisome that government is not doing enough to […]
Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) says its services in rural areas is being compromised by government failure to repay a debt of K400 million for two years now. CHAM chairman Father Peter Mulomole said this on Wednesday in Mangochi at the start of the organisation’s annual general meeting. Mulomole said there was an agreement, […]