Five people who under the guise of religious belief refused to donate blood to an anaemic family member are under police custody in Mangochi after hospital officials sought for their intervention in order to save the life of a seven-year old child. Failure to provide a child with necessities contravenes Section 242 of the Malawi […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) boss Ralph Kamoto has suspended commissioner for exports Shadrec Namalomba for facilitating to clear nine trucks of round wood from Chikangawa meant for export. The trucks that Namalomba cleared reportedly belong to ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker Noel Masangwi. According to an MRA staff circular number 28 dated February 20 […]
Lawyer for Pika Manondo, one of the accused in the assassination attempt of former Malawi’s Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo, has accused the media of misrepresenting the court proceedings in order to sell the papers. Writing on the timeline of his Facebook Timeline, John Gift Mwakhawa said he had so far avoided commenting on the case; […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has disclosed that his administration is reviewing the Malawi Prisons Act to make sure that prisons are governed within a framework that rhymes with the United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of offenders. Mutharika made the disclosure when he presided over a graduation of 730 recruit prison warders in […]
It never rains but pours for the National Aids Commission (NAC). After being bombarded left, right and center by the civil society in the country for its insensitiveness and carelessness in giving out grants, the Commission has also lost the trust of the Global Fund administrators. NAC has been stripped off of the principal recipient […]
South African police have confirmed that Fayaz Munir Ishmael was running Smart Cabs company in South Africa and reportedly committed criminal offences but has been on the run. The businessman has been traced to be in Malawi and is part of the family running HTD Limited. He escaped justice and came to Malawi to change […]
Bishop Brighton Malasa of the Anglican Church in Malawi led thousands of people to mourn Rev.Fr. Constantine Kaswaya of Soche Hill parish who passed away on Tuesday. In attendance during a funeral mass at Holy Innocent Parish were different religious leaders like Fr. Rev. George Buleya of the Roman Catholic Church. The late Fr. Kaswaya […]
Malawi Police in the northern district of Mzimba have arrested a 16 year old mother identified as Linda Shonga for allegedly killing her own baby boy by placing him in a pail full of water Mzimba police publicist Constable Gabriel Chiona said Shonga is alleged to have killed the baby on Tuesday night at MBC location in […]
Private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker told the High Court in Lilongwe in the ongoing trial into the shooting of former ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo that she was persuaded by Kasambara’s wife not to talk about the former justice minister’s alleged involvement in the attempted murder. But the defence lawyers in […]
Five witnesses have testified against Malawi police officer, Constable Kondwani Guta who has been charged of robbery with violence following his involvement in an armed robbery incident that happened in Kanjedza residential area, Blantyre last year. Guta, 25, who was stationed at Chilobwe Police Unit in Blantyre, was arrested on 13th December, 2014 together with […]
Malawi Government has warned its employees in the health sector to expect a delay in the payments of their February salaries and nurses have since bemoaned the sad development. According to a Memo from the Secretary for Health, a Mr. B.K Chapalapata to all district and central health directors and officers, the salary delay is […]
About five dogs Tuesday morning attacked and killed a woman in Lilongwe’s T/A Njewa area and left a four-month-old baby she had strapped on her back seriously wounded. Sources said the incident happened in the wee hours when the woman (identity yet to be established) was on her way to work in her maize field […]
Lilongwe Police has arrested three men suspected to have been part of the gang that invaded and robbed Minister of Energy and Mining Resources, Atupele Muluzi’s Area 9 residence in the Capital City. The three were caught and arrested in what is termed a raid, which had followed a series of intensive investigations according to […]
Anglican Church Christians from Blantyre converged at College of Medicine mortuary to pay their last respect to former Public Affairs (PAC) Chairperson and Anglica Canon Fr. Constantine Kaswaya who died due to asthma at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. The late Kaswaya who has died at 65 served as PAC chair for two […]
This is getting interesting! The shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has always been feared to have been a result of a corrupt deal turned sour and the ongoing trial is bringing some interesting information lending credence to that with the latest being lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker revealing her former boss and […]
The extradition case of Misozi Charles Chanthunya, accused of murdering a pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend, has stalled in South Africa as Malawi government maintains that it is looking up to the South African Government for a way forward in repatriating him. Chanthunya faces a murder charge which is punishable by death in Malawi. He has been […]
A businessman thought to have run away from South Africa for criminal offences has been traced to be in Malawi and is part of the family running HTD Limited . Fayaz Munir Ishmael was running Smart Cabs company in South Africa and reportedly committed criminal offences but has been on the run. He escaped justice […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a Lilongwe-based businessman, Jimmy Mbuliro for allegedly defrauding government. Mbuliro’s case is latest in a series of arrests ACB has made since 2013 under the public graft scandal also known as Cashgate. ACB Senior Public Relations Officer’ Egrita Ndala said Mbuliro was arrested following a tip-off. ”On 5th […]