Malawi High Court has ruled that 11 prostitutes who were forced to take HIV tests by police six years ago will be awarded damages, a court official said Thursday citing a judgement. The sex workers were rounded up in 2009 in the southern city of Mwanza, hauled to a government hospital for HIV testing without […]
Police in Karonga district, north of Malawi have arrested a 45-year-old-man for defiling and impregnating his 15- year-old granddaughter. Karonga police spokesperson Enock Livasoni, says Boyd Mumba who has three wives, has been sleeping with her granddaughter since December 2014. Mumba comes from Etiwelo village Traditional Authority Kilupula in the district. He was also once […]
Former chief executive officer for the Lilongwe City Council, Kelvin Mmangisa is claiming a staggering K56 million from the cash-strapped Lilongwe City Council in arrears from July 2012 to October 2013 a period he was arrested for allegedly pocketing K30 million in illegal benefits between 2009 and 2012. Mmangisa was accused of drawing almost K600, […]
Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them to mandatory HIV testing, setting a precedent by declaring that mandatory testing of HIV/AIDS is illegal and unconstitutional. Lawyer representing the 11 women, Chrispine Sibande, filed an application in court on March 10 […]
The Phalombe First Grade Magistrate Court has slapped a 26 year-old man with a 14 year jail term for armed robbery and acts intending to cause grievous harm contrary to Sections 301 and 235 of the Penal Code, respectively. The convict, Jonathan Makuluni, who hails from Traditional Authority (T/A) Nsamala’s area in Balaka and based […]
There are revelations of an alleged plot by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operatives to assassinate Malawi’s former Head of State Joyce Banda when she returns home at the end of May, 2015. Banda left the country in September 2014 to launch the Joyce Banda Foundation International (JBFI) Africa at the margins of the […]
Malawi police on Wednesday said they had arrested four people suspected of murdering an albino man five months ago to sell his bones for witchcraft. Symon Mukota was abducted from his village at night in December, with police accusing his suspects of killing him, removing his bones and burying his remains in a riverbed. The four […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has acquitted two police officers and convicted a third – all from Mzuzu Police Station – in connection to the mysterious circumstances that surrounded the death of a Natural Resources College (NRC) student, Edwin Msiska, who died in police custody in 2012. Police officers George Kamphe and Lucius Mpakeni were […]
A defaced black Rhodesian metal identity card states his date of birth as June 6, 1902, meaning he has officially lived for a century and stolen a further 13 years from another century. Gifted with longer life, he remembers only visiting the hospital once in his entire life — two years ago at the age […]
Traditional leaders in the districts of Mulanje and Phalombe have signed by-laws in a bid to protect the endangered Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve. One of the by-laws, for examples, suggests a 10 year imprisonment with hard labour for anyone caught cutting down trees in the Forest. Phalombe District Commissioner (DC) Patrick Kalilombe, who alongside his […]
Malawi’s immediate past president Joyce Banda will not testify in as defence witness in connection with the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo as trial resumes this Thursday at High Court in Lilongwe, her aide has said. The accused will start entering defence and parading their witnesses after the court ruled that former Justice Minister […]
Debate on whether Chamba (Indian Hemp) should be legalized or not resurfaced Monday in the National Assembly with Ntchisi North Member of Parliament arguing that Chamba fetches more per acre than trees. According to the MP, Boniface Kadzamira (Malawi Congress Party) apart from paper, “hemp can be used to produce fibre, fabric, soap, lighting oil, […]
Police in Nsanje have arrested one of their own officier , Sergeant Petro Mkulalero, 32, on allegations of raping a 17 year old girl who sought refuge at Chilomo Police after running away from sex abuse at her parents’ home. The girl was running away from her parents after exchanging bitter words with them because […]
Britain has added its voice to the growing tributes of prominent Malawian journalist Raphael Tenthani who was killed in a car accident along the Lilongwe-Blantyre M1 Road on Saturday night. Kizito Tenthani said his brother was killed in a car accident at around 9 p.m. on Saturday evening after sustaining head injuries when the car […]
The General Assembly of the Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP), mother body of three synods of Malawi namely Livingstonia, Nkhoma and Blantyre CCAP, has expressed concern with conflicts rocking the church. Moderator of the General Assembly, Reverend Dr Timothy Nyasulu, has said the leadership in the three Synods handle misunderstandings. He is quoted in […]
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for state-owned Lilongwe Handling Company (LIHACO) has been fired after illegally giving himself a K54 million token of appreciation ahead of expiry of his month to month contract. CEO Francis Mkoloma retired from the company in 2008 and was paid his pension in full but was re-engaged on contract, according […]
A Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) official, Naomi Gondwe, got the humiliation of a lifetime when she was caught red-handed trying to steal a pair of shoes from PEP Stores in Mzuzu City last week. An eye witness, Samuel Kamanga, told Nyasa Times that Gondwe was locked in the shop for about an hour as a mob had steadily […]
Managing Director of Times Group Leonard Chakadya has confessed that the death of seasoned journalist and celebrated columnist Ralph Tenthani would affect sales of one its publications, The Sunday Times. Chikadya made the remarks at College Medicine Mortuary when scores of people paid their last respects to the fallen media hero. Tenthani died in a car accident […]