As the Paul Mphwiyo shooting trial continued on Thursday, defence lawyer Ralph Kasambara blasted the state prosecutors for what he has described as the continued flip-flopping in court. Former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara is charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder alongside Macdonald Kumwembe who Mphwiyo identified as the […]
Lead investigator in the ongoing Paul Mphwiyo’s murder case, Kankwala Chilinda has revealed that there is currently no evidence linking Oswald Lutepo to the attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Lutepo is yet to enter his plea but the rest – including former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) met the UN rights committee in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday during the pre-session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and reported on the human rights situation in Malawi, mainly focusing on the discrimination of sexual minorities. Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) executive director Gift Trapence pleaded with the committee to impress on the […]
Sate witness Charles Chalunda has clarified in court that the person he had been conspiring with to kill former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo was Pika Manondo and not businessperson-cum-politician Osward Lutepo. This was after Chalunda had been persuaded to testify by defence lawyer John-Gift Mwakhwawa and Enock Chibwana from the prosecution team […]
Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) has sounded a panic button, saying blood shortage has reached alarming levels in hospitals because only a few people come to the centers to donate blood. MBTS Lilongwe Center disclosed that they are collecting only around thirty units a day from a required amount of around 1000 units a day. […]
Malawi Police in Nkhata Bay have confirmed death of two men who reportedly quarreled over a bottle of beer. Nkhata Bay Police publicist Sergeant Ignatius Esau identified the deceased as Raban Mkandawire and Wanangwa Kaunda. According to Esau, Mkandawire had been trying to play “peacemaker” role between Mike Mwalwali, 45, and Wanangwa Kaunda, 37, who […]
Airtel Malawi officials will likely be subpoenaed to High Court to clarify the call logs presented in court ina case involving former minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and others who are accused of the attempted assassination of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo . Lead investigator Superintendent Kankhwala Chilimba presented the call logs on Tuesday but […]
Police in Malawi’s central district of Salima have arrested ten police officers for allegedly stealing government equipment at a Green belt Initiative site in the district, police officials have confirmed. National police spokesperson Rhoda Manjolo told a local radio on Tuesday that the officers who were guarding the site last month, allegedly went away with iron sheets […]
A case involving former minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and others who are accused of the attempted assassination of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo took a new twist on Tuesday when lead investigator Superintendent Kankhwala Chilimba accepted that he lied to the court. In his testimony, Chilinda who had put across damning evidence linking several of the […]
As the continuation of the trial in which six accused persons are answering charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, the defence accused the state on “deliberate intimidation” to some of the accused persons. During the preliminary deliberations in Lilongwe High Court registry before […]
Tired of poor services, empty promises and persistent water woes, Bangwe residents in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre, have given Blantyre Water Board (BWB) a seven-day ultimatum to restore continuous supply of clean water or face mass demonstrations. Early this year, BWB assured its customers that the problem would come to an end following the rehabilitation […]
Some illegal Chinese workers are still working at Golden Peacock in the capital Lilongwe without the blessings of the Department of Immigration which denied them working permits for several times. Nyasa Times investigations has revealed that Golden Peacock management is still keeping the workers in their managerial positions despite the Immigration Department advice that the […]
Malawi has ordered police to shoot “dangerous criminals” who attack albinos in order to sell their body parts for witchcraft. “Shoot every criminal who is violent when caught red-handed abducting people with albinism,” the country’s police chief Lexen Kachama told officers at the weekend, according to local media. Six albinos have been killed in the […]
Singer-cum-pastor Macdonald Mlaka Maliro says evangelism has become his full-time occupation and that people should accept that he is a changed person. “I am busy with evangelism. Evangelism is now my full-time occupation,” Mlaka says in a newspaper interview. Mlaka a pastor at Cross Life Church says he is now a changed person from his […]
Concerned with the plight of their country men and women who were recently affected by devastating floods, Malawians living in the Washington DC area in the United States of America and their Southern African counterparts recently organized a fundraising cocktail night in aid of the flood victims. The event which took place at Avante Garde […]
A couple that stunned residents of Zomba city for selling a seven year old relation to a businessperson in the city has been convicted of human trafficking and subsequently sentenced to prison by the Chief Resident Magistrate Court. The court heard that Jonathan Mkoma and his wife Veronica Malikebu sold the boy whom they had […]
Premier mobile network service provider, TNM has handed over medical equipment worth K8.7 million to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) which will enable the public referral facility to set up the High Dependency Unit. The donation is in response to hospital authority recommendation to develop a Dependency Unit in the burns unit so that children who are […]
High Court has granted a temporary restraining order stopping the controversial sale of Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, through the Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC), is set to conclude sale of between 51 and 75 percent shareholding in the bank, following failure to recapitalise it and adhere to regulations requirements […]