Another group of over 500 Malawians who survived xenophobic attacks in South Africa were again welcomed with tears on Friday night when they arrived in Blantyre on eight buses. The group of returnees arrived through Kamuzu stadium where they were given blankets each. Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa and Internal Security Minister Atupele Muluzi assured the […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has rejected claims that corruption is endemic in his country. Mutharika conceded that there is corruption and that he is also determined to crackdown on the vice. However, he denied reports that corruption is endemic in Malawi. “I don’t think it is endemic, it is certainly institutional and to some extent […]
A man has been found guilty of setting ablaze his ex-wife’s house in central region district of Nkhotakota. Rajabu Ndala, 29 was accused of arson contrary to section 337 of the penal code. Constable Cidrick Cosmas prosecuting told the court that Ndala married Asiyatu Hassani in 2014 up until March 14 this year when they divorced over […]
Hundred of members of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia at Kanengo congregation in Lilongwe have threatened to quit the church in protest of the dismissal of Reverend Chimwemwe Mhango. The synod has dismissed Mhango citing rebellious acts after he and the congregation protested his transfer from Kanengo to Euthini in […]
The High Court of Malawi has released from jail eight prisoners on death row after judges commenced rehearing their cases in February this year, according to local press report. Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula is quoted in the local daily that the eight were freed after the High Court reheard their homicide cases between February 11 […]
The Balaka Second Grade Magistrate Court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 7 years imprisonment with hard labour for burglary. Police Prosecutor Sergeant Getrude Chingolo Kafumbula told the court that the suspect John Samson 28, on the night of 2nd to 3rd February, 2015 at Phimbi village in the district of Balaka broke into the house of […]
Southern Region Police Commissioner Dr George Kainja has introduced a competition within police station in the region which aims at dealing with crime and convey the key messages of combating drug abuse, violence and theft. Police stations will be competing for the trophy in the region in various disciplines ranging from crime management, traffic, performance, […]
Malawi Police in southern district of Phalombe hunting for unknown assailants who hacked a 20 year old man to death and extracted the brain from the skull. The deceased, identified as Sani Aubi, from Khanaja village Traditional Authority (T/A) Mkhumba in the district, met his fate Monday night. According to Aubi’s grandfather, 66 year-old Jonathan Masulani 66, […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa are holding a 38-year-old man James Usseni who allegedly sodomised a 6-year-old boy and infected him with HIV. The man who hails from Kayaye Village under Chief Chimwala in Mangochi district was arrested after police got reports of the sexual violence and after medical examination at Chikwawa district hospital, it was […]
Malawi government is writing off the loans obtained at state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB), most of which were borrowed by private businesses and individuals who are financiers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Treasury has asked the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) to issue K6 billion promissory notes to take the toxic loans off […]
The United State based Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is urging Malawi on government to “immediately” amend provisions of the new Marriage law that stigmatize and violate the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. During President Peter Mutharika’s visit to Washington D.C. this week, the rights body also called on United […]
The woman who dumped her newly born baby into a pit latrine last week at Ulongwe in Balaka district stunned the court when she asked for forgiveness saying she had to kill her newly born baby just to jump the additional responsibility as she already has seven children whose first born is 12 years old […]
Malawi Police in northern district of Rumphi have arrested 16 Ethiopian nationals f who they intercepted at Thekero along the M1 Road lakeshore side in the district for illegal entry into the country. The law enforcers have also launched a man-hunt for the driver who had aided them but bolted immediately after encountering a check […]
The Mchinji Magistrate court has ordered 18 teenagers who were members of local criminal gang ‘Boko Harama’ and another called ‘Gaza’ to pay a fine of K5, 000 or in default serve a three month jail term for beating, robbing pupils in primary schools in the district. Head teachers for Bua and Kamuzu Primary schools […]
Blantyre Magistrates Court has sentenced a 25-year-old Pork seller to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour for rape. Wellington Govati a resident of Chatha village in Chilobwe, Blantyre raped an 18-year-old Chimwankhunda Community Day Secondary School form one student on 14th October, 2014. Govati who pleaded not guilty to the rape charge was arrested on […]
Malawian man aged 23 is reported to have jumped in front of a train and was killed in Durban, South Africa in a bid to avoid repatriation back home after surviving anti-migrants attacks. South Africa’s newspaper, Daily Sun, reported on Wednesday that the man threw himself in front of a moving train after hearing that […]
Mzuzu Magistrate Court in northern Malawi on Monday convicted four commercial sex workers for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy and infecting him with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the process. Ellen Pemba, 31, Zainabu Mkawa, 37, Martha Mlenga, 22, and Zainabu Mussa, 32, were arrested on 5 September, 2014 on charges of indulging in sexual activity with […]
The Livingstonia Synod of the CCAP has deposed Rev. Chimwemwe Chikukula Mhango from being minister in CCAP and at Kanengo Congregation in Lilongwe. The decision was arrived at during an extra-ordinary Synod Executive meeting in Mzuzu on Monday attended also by a few retired and other church ministers. General Secretary for the Livingstonia Synod of […]