Opposition People’s Party (PP) has said in parliament that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is failing to persuade the Western donors to resume their budgetary support to the country and tipped government on the need to kickstart fresh negotiations than flap his hands in despair as public health and education sectors continue to collapse. […]
A Malawi College of Accountancy lecturer, Dr. Auxius Kazombo Mwale was on Sunday arrested by Fiscal and Fraud Police Unit (FFU) in Lilongwe in for allegedly being in cashgate scandal. National Fiscal and Fraud Police deputy head, Senior Superintendent Gerald Kachiwanda could not deny or confirm the arrest when contacted. ”Just know that there are many […]
The list of those arrested in Cashgate crimes so far reads like a roll-call of high-profile people as former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and three other suspected Auzius Kazombo Mwale, Clemence Mmadzi and Roosevelt Ndovi charged with seven counts. The four are jointly being accused of defrauding about K2.4 billion in 2013 […]
Lilongwe City officials are now back to work in earnest ensuring cleanliness in the capital city just a week after Minister of Local government Kondwani Nankhumwa blasted them for unhygienic standards and lack of revenue innovations. A check on some places where the minister expressed concern over poor sanitation like at Lilongwe bus depot, cleaners […]
Malawi’s major central hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe has suspended its laboratory services just weeks after it closed down its x-ray operations, a sign that health services in this impoverished nation are collapsing. A memo seen by Nyasa Times from Hospital director Jonathan Nkhoma to members of staff says all patients seeking lab services […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has been given a green light by Treasury to probe Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) after a special investigative audit of MEC has been declared conclusive that found that there was gross financial mismanagement and flouting of procurement and recruitment procedures under the leadership of chief elections officer Willie Kalonga between July […]
Conservative clerics in Malawi are asking government not to compromise its anti-gay stand, saying they should not be lured by international support to give equal rights to gays under the law. Malawi government requested $388 888 (about K221 million) from Global Fund for HIV and Aids interventions targeting 40 000 men who have sex with […]
Malawi government has said it is progressing well on human rights issues, according to state of the human rights in the country presented by Chief State Advocate, Pacharo Kayira at 57th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights held in Banjul, Gambia. State parties to the African Charter on human and […]
Police in Chitipa have arrested a 53 old man on suspicion that he stole medical drugs from public hospital worth K900 000, just days after the US envoy to Malawi threatened her country would stop its malaria drug aid package unless theft is curbed. Police said they were tipped by well wishers that Joel Msiska […]
Police in Lilongwe on Friday 6th November, 2015 arrested a South African national for being found in possession of Cocaine. According to Kamuzu International Airport’s Police Public Relations Officer Sgt. Sapulani Chitonde, the man identified as Siyabonga Kom flew in from Sao Paulo airport in Brazil but connected to Malawi using an Ethiopian Airline in […]
President Peter Mutharika has warned politicians against hijacking cultural groups, saying this tendency divides people. Mutharika was speaking on Saturday at Chonde in Mulanje during the annual gathering of Mulhako wa Alhomwe, a cultural grouping that organises the yearly gatherings for the Lhomwe tribe. “There are some politicians who use cultural groups to us, we […]
Former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo has been arrested by fiscal police in Lilongwe in connection to his alleged involvement in the cashgate scandal. He is accused of siphoning over K3 billion of public funds from Capitol Hill in Lilongwe. Mphwiyo’s arrest comes three months after he was fingered out as the mastermind of the theft […]
Malawi Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has defied the law by voluntarily recusing himself from certifying a Constitutional review on the application by two of the suspects in the murder case of polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa, who want to be discharged from the case. Doff Bottoman and Peter Petros through their lawyer Ambokire Salimu applied to […]
Malawi Police Service officers have been left enraged after being forced to contribute part of their salaries towards this year’s Christmas Party being disguised as a Christmas Parade slated for next month, Nyasa Times can reveal. Making the matter worse is a directive by the National Police’s administration to forcibly deduct the contributions directly from […]
First Grade Magistrate’s court in Balaka district, eastern Malawi, has sentenced a 53-year-old man to 8 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his 4-year-old granddaughter. The court heard from the State representative Prosecutor Sergeant Aida Mzama that the suspect Greev Chimutu defiled a four year old granddaughter on 26th October, this year at M’mangeni village […]
President Peter Mutharika says Malawians should accept that donors have pulled their aid from the country and they will not be returning back. Mutharika said this Friday when he opened the 46th session of parliament in Lilongwe. “The age of donor aid seems ro be gone. Our developong partners remain with us only wit support […]
An application by former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Raphael Kasambara to travel to South Africa for medical treatment has been rejected by High Court judge Michael Mtambo – a well known foe of the former. Private practice lawyer Emmanuel Theu who is representing Kasambara, who is facing a charge of conspiracy to commit […]
Malawi government hit hard by cash flow problems, has failed to employ 51 doctors, 21 of which have now secured jobs in Lesotho. President of Medical Doctors in Malawi Association, Douglas Lungu confirmed the development. “We have sunk so low, this government has really sunk so low,” fumed Lungu, a medical doctor himself by profession. […]