Malawi government is set to cancel, then, renegotiate production sharing agreements (PSAs) with companies licensed to explore oil and gas in the country, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu has confirmed. According to published reports on Sunday, government has completed reviewing the matter and that a final announcement will be made soon, after […]
A Mzimba man, aged 31, Clayton Mnyenyembe, from Kampingo Sibande on Friday committed suicide by shooting himself following a quarrel with his wife over claims that she was cheating. Mzimba Police Public Relations officer Gabriel Chiona confirmed to Nyasa Times about the incident. Sergeant Chiona said: “Clayton Munyenyembe decided to shoot himself dead following an […]
Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya is reported to have been involved in a road accident as he was driving himself an official car hitting a cyclist dead, Police said they are investigating. Msowoya reportedly hit the bitter at Chisemphere in Kasungu. While the cyclist died, the Speaker escaped with only a few bruises and did […]
The infamous youth gangs which used to terrorise residents of Area 36 in Lilongwe will be fought to the last breath, Humane Consortium on Nature for Mankind (HCNM), a local non-governmental organisation, has said. The assurance comes at a time when the country is recording high incidences of organised crime, burglary and daylight robbery which […]
Malawi Police have confirmed that Agness Natani of Sesesantonga Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Khombedza in Salima went missing on June 29 this year was murdered and her body has been found dumped in a pit latrine in Dowa. Dowa Police spokesperson Sergeant Richard Kaponda the decomposed body of a 50-year-old woman was found in a […]
Malawi public hospitals in districts are facing financial problems and they are scaling down services which medical experts have said will potentially lead to more preventable deaths. One of the hospital which is scaling its services is Chiradzulu, where District Health Officer , Dr Chinomba Gama in a letter to Secretary of Health in the […]
Civil Society organisations trading under the umbrella of National Taskforce on Millennium Development Goals, on Thursday pressed Government to conclude all cashgate cases to win back donors confidence. Malawi fell out of grace from the donor community following the looting of K92Billion from 2009 to 2012 and K13.6Billion from 2012 to 2014. The gruesome theft […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said Malawi needs effective domestic resource mobilization to develop successfully. Gondwe said this in Lilongwe during the high level forum on development effectiveness which was held under the theme ‘Towards a transformed and self-reliant Malawi’ and attracted participants from the academia, cabinet ministers, Civil Society Organisations, […]
There is still a lack of trust in Malawi government financial systems following the cashgate affair which started in 2005, Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) director in Malawi, Jen Marshall, has said. She said with the lack of trust, donors including Britain are using off-budget support which she said, does not use government financial […]
Former Director of Malawi Investment Trade Centre (MITC) Robert Salama has been appointed as the ambassador to the newly established foreign embassy in Geneva. The appointment has been made by the President and will have to be confirmed by Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of parliament. Principal Secretary for the Office of the President and Cabinet, […]
Malawi Police in administrative capital Lilongwe on Wednesday summoned award winning Nations Publications Limited (NPL) reporter Rabecca Chimjeka reportedly over some stories she has been doing pertaining to cashgate and widespread timber business involving some Cabinet Ministers. Chimjeka, a former Nyasa Times senior investigative reporter, was summoned to Central Region Police Headquarters in Area 3, according to […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate affairs Issa Njauju may have been killed in a case of mistaken identity. Njaunju was found dead on July 4 2015 with his body half-buried near Lilongwe River and his Toyota Hilux double-cabin vehicle burnt to ashes behind the presidential villas in Lilongwe. Sources at the bureau say ACB […]
A picture showing an armed to the teeth Malawi Police officers working as body guards of State Vice President Saulos Chilima has been trending on social media, with many commenting with excitement on the beefed-up female police officer leading the guards helping protect the VP. The presidential guards, characteristically armed to the teeth, stood out […]
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) have said the recent murder of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director of Corporate Affairs, Issa Njauju highlights the levels of insecurity in the country. Njauju, who was laid to rest last Saturday, was found dead in Lilongwe after he was reported […]
Malawi government has said the public should refrain from making “wild speculations” into the brutal murder of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate services Issa Njauju whose body was discovered half-buried on Saturday in the capital Lilongwe. Minister of Information, Kondwani Nankhumwa, said government condemns the “brutal and cowardly murder” of Njauju who at the time of […]
Deloitte Partner Chris Kapenda is the new president for Rotary Club of Lilongwe (RCL), having taken over the mantle from Ambassador Sophie Asimenye Kalinde, whose year-long term expired on Tuesday, June 30, 2014. The official induction ceremony for the new Rotary president took place last week at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe, where Guest Speaker Anti-Corruption […]
Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has criticised the Peter Mutharika administration of bad governance over the controversial disposal of the Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) against recommendations of the Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament. The influential quasi-religious organisation has said the Mutharika government has asserted its credentials as not a listening and arrogant regime for going ahead to […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre are investigating an armed robbery incident involving former diplomat to the Permanent Mission of Malawi to the United Nations (UN) Janet Karim and a Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) officer, only identified as Ms Konyani. The former diplomat Karim and the MRA official were attacked on Sunday by armed thieves in Limbe commercial town […]