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. […]
A professional radiographer at Mulanje Hospital is in the hands of police for attempting to rape a client who went to find out whether she is pregnant or not. Police told Nyasa Times Thursday that 28 year old Kenneth Mkorongo asked the client, whose name we have deliberately withheld on ethical reasons, to undress when […]
First Lady Gertrude Mutharika says genuine women involvement and participation in various development efforts that the country is undertaking, is, what is required to fast track the social and economic development of the country. Madam Mutharika said this on Wednesday night at COMESA Hall in Blantyre during the annual Zokonda Amayi Macheza event organised by Malawi Broadcasting […]
Malawi government says it has completed installing CCTV cameras at Central Medical Stores in a bid to fiercely combat rampant medical drugs in its public hospitals. Ministry of Health spokesperson Adrian Chikumbe said in an interview that the next phase would be to install the CCTV cameras in central hospitals before rolling it out in […]
A businessman, a primary school teacher and an old man are currently in police custody in Lilongwe for allegedly defiling and impregnating three teenage girls. The three suspects, according to national police, committed the defilement offence on separate and independent onccassions in Kasiya area in T/A Khongoni, Lilongwe. In the first incident, A 31-year-old businessman, […]
Emmanuel Yesaya , one of the accused person in which 13 other people, among them government accountants and a private sector individual, are accused of allegedly conspiring to steal K201 million ($358,929) from government in 2011, did not take a plea on his alleged role in the scam after his lawyer raised preliminary objection as […]
Government has issued a stern warning that it would grab back all idle land to resell it to new developers after issuing notices to landlords this month. Minister of Land, Atupele Muluzi, said the government is baffled that huge chunks of land, mostly owned by estates and companies lie idle in the Capital, Lilongwe where […]
Influential female human rights activist Martha Kwataine has resigned from her position as executive director of Malawi Health Equity Network (Mehn) and is heading to an international NGO, ActionAid. She told a local radio on Wednesday that she resigned at MEHN, an organisation she founded nine years ago in October and was serving notice as […]
Three people have been killed in Phalombe following lightning strikes while attending to a funeral, and others have since been hospitalized, police confirmed. The incident happened on the night of Tuesday 3rd November 2015 following heavy rain and thunder. Phalombe police publicist, August Nkhwazi said it was during the rains when lightning struck at unsuspecting […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate court will pass sentence on November 17 to businessperson Esnart Nenani Ndovi following her conviction on her own plea of guilty over a Cashgate transaction amounting to K12.9 million ($23,035). He is now on remand in prison. After her own plea, the court convicted Ndovi on charges of money laundering which attracts […]
Government says it is taking drastic measures to prevent or reduce road accidents in Malawi that killed 1000 people last year. Minister of Transport and Public Works Francis Kasaila said Tuesday in Lilongwe that most of the accidents are as a result of reckless driving and lack of knowledge on road use. “My ministry has […]
Sarai Chisala of EmGender Research Network, who challenged a Norwegian development arm over the use of “single” in an advert seeking young women for internship, has successfully won the battle and the advert has been withdrawn from a newspaper pending removal of the marital status. In the letter , Thor Offedal, country director for Development […]
State House on Tuesday conspicuously sidelined presidential press secretary Gerald Viola at the official opening of the Lilongwe City West bypass road where President Peter Mutharika was guest of honour. The sidelining of Viola as master of ceremony heightened speculation that the President is about to fire the press secretary for suggesting in a TV […]
Malawi courts will start hearing cases of sexual denial in marriage whereby husbands or wives, who have been victims of sex intimacy denial from their marriage homes will now have opportunity to seek legal remedies. In Malawi sex-withholding is so widespread arising from family disputes. A special law commission has recommended to government that victims of […]
Some Civil Society groups, human rights defenders and lawyers working in the realm of human rights and governance in Southern Africa have challenged Malawi government to end the “culture of impunity” and expedite pursuit of justice on the murder of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director late Issa Njauja as well as other cases including the […]
Suspect Esnart Nenani Ndovi has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering K12.9m from the government in August 2013 and is convicted by Lilongwe Magistrate Court on her own plea. She took plea of ‘guilty’ before senior resident magistrate Patrick Chirwa. Nenani Ndovi accepted wrong-doing for “lending certificate for personation” to Oddei Kamanga, a public […]