Close to 2000 families have been displaced by the heavy first rains in Malawi with police reports monitored on radio indicating that at least five people have so far been killed in flooding waters. In Ntcheu, two people, aged 18 each drowned in Kasamba dam on Monday prompting police public relations officer in the district […]
Malawi’s poorest are expected to reach 9:5 million in 2020 from the current 1:5 million and international charity, Oxfam is asking the government to increase subsdies to protect the poor and vulnerable. In a report, Oxfam says inequality between the halves and the halve nots is alarmingly increasing and there was need for immediate preventive […]
Patients at Nsanje District Hospital have now resorted to go begging for food in surrounding villages following hospital management decision to stop provision of breakfast and lunch. Nsanje District Hospital has joined a string of public hospitals that have discontinued provision of free food to patients due to lack of money following huge budgetary cuts. […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has set Friday as the day it will have the inter-party injunction hearing after State legal team asked to vacate an injunction that is restraining parliament from swearing in Fiona Kalemba as clerk of parliament. Spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice Apoche Itimu said the legal team was putting up […]
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), an umbrella body for major faith communities represented in Malawi, will present its findings on consultations it carried on the heated debate of federalism on December 10 2015. The findings will be presented during a national follow up conference on Inclusivity and Federalism in Blantyre on Thursday, December 10. PAC […]
Malawi stands a chance to reduce number of people infected by HIV annually once ‘Test and Treat’ strategy is rolled out next year. The southern African country will, from April 2016, extend antiretroviral therapy (ART) eligibility to all HIV-positive persons through ‘Test and Treat’ strategy which was adopted last September. Under the strategy, individuals will […]
Malawians are Tuesday celebrating the World Aids Day with shoulders high as the government has been commended for its administration of life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) medication for HIV sufferers. Medicins sans Frontier (MSf) deputy medical coordinator Kelvin Phiri said each client on ARVs access the medicine easily which he said was commendale. He said clients need to be […]
Malawi deputy Director of Information, Diana Nkhulembe Phiri had a rude awakening when she was forced to return home from President Peter Mutharika’s Malta trip after it was discovered she imposed herself on the entourage, Nyasa Times can reveal. Mutharika left the country on Sunday 22nd November, 2015 to attend the 24th session of Commonwealth […]
The Catholic church in Karonga has expressed worry over the high rate of murder cases and witchcraft in Karonga. Martin Mtumbuka, bishop of Karonga diocese of the Catholic church said in just six months, the district has recorded nine murder cases. He said some of the murder cases as a result of witchcraft accusations that […]
The Balaka First Grade Magistrate court in eastern Malawi has ordered two Seventh day Apostolic members to pay a fine of K7, 000 each or in default serve 14 days imprisonment for contempt of court. The suspects Davie Phiri (38) and Gideon Dzonzi 27 who are members of Seventhday Apostolic Church have been convicted for […]
State prosecutors on Monday started parading witnesses in a K500 million heist case, one of the biggest bank robberies in Malawi. Prosecutors paraded two bank employees who said the suspected thieves came into the bank and forced them to open a cash chest with the money which was due for banking with the Reserve Bank […]
Parliament on Monday authorised the government to borrow K14 billion to upgrade aviation security systems at Kamuzu International Airport and Chileka Airport in Lilongwe and Blantyre respectively. However, most members of parliament from the northern region took the government to task over the state of Mzuzu airport, accusing the government of abandoning the facility. Chitipa […]
The once upon a time untouchable man at the State broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC ) Albert Mungomo is out of MBC executive management, Nyasa Times can reveal. The MBC Board of Directors made the decision at its extra-ordinary meeting held on the 16th of November, 2015 in Blantyre. According to a member of the […]
A 17-year-old boy with albinism is currently in pain at Holly Family Mission Hospital after he was brutally hacked by unknown assailants in Phalombe district. The victim, Alfred Chikalo of Mnasi village T/A Mkhumba, Phalombe was rescued from the attack by well wishers on the night of Sunday 29th November, 2015, police have disclosed. The […]
A fight between two young men over a K100 debt resulted into a tragedy in Lilongwe on Thursday as they both lost their lives. The incident took place in Area 49 at a place commonly known as Pa Zebra, along the Kaunda Road. Police have confirmed the incident and they have identified the two as […]
A lot has been said about the flamboyant man of God , Prophet Shepherd Bushiri on how he has managed to promote his ministry across borders and establish himself as one of the richest prophets in Africa, owning a number of gold mines and other ritzy possession including two a eroplanes. Information has been confided […]
Some fishermen of Mwanyeska village in the area of Traditional Authority Mwilang’ombe in Karonga the northern district of Malawi on Sunday pulled a dead body of unidentified woman with a fishing net at the middle of the Lake Malawi when they were in a process of catching fish. An eye witness Vunga Mwachande, who is […]
High Court Judge Fiona Mwale has said with the amendedment of Children and Young Persons Act, juvenile offenders will now be called ‘children in conflict with the law’. Judge Mwale said the term juvenile had connotations of stigma and criminal phobia. She said the new term will afford children to rehabilitates. Mwale, who also chairs […]