A 50 year Tanzanian nation Ambokire Pilipili suspected to be an agent of harbouring and transporting illegal Immigrants using uncharted routes to Malawi, has been arrested in the northern border district of Karonga, Malawi Immigration Department told Nyasa Times. Immigration spokesperson in Karonga, Samuel Kandeya, told Nyasa Times that the Tanzania was arrested after a […]
Two teenage boys who were arrested last week for forging documents and using them to solicit money from people appeared in court Monday where one denied the charge while the other showed remorse and apologized. The teenagers (names withheld) were charged of forging introductory letters in the name of Likuni Private Secondary School and Lilongwe […]
Appalled by the rate people are attacking Forest Reserves in the country, the Malawi will through its Chief Secretary to government George Mkondiwa lead the nation in a tree planting exercise at the Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, in Lilongwe, this Saturday. Official statistics show that trees lost in a year at the Dzalanyama Forest Reserve is […]
Police Commissioner for the North, Demster Chigwenembe, has singled out police’s failure to respond to emergencies and give feedback on progress of reported cases as some of the elements that have triggered hostilities between police and the general public. He was speaking on Tuesday when he officially opened the Regional Executive Community Policing meeting held […]
As Malawi continue to grapple with ways of assisting thousands of people who have been displaced with floods, the Department of Meteorological Services, has warned of further flooding in most parts of Lower Shire area due to heavy the expected localized rains associated with heavy thunderstorms over most areas. In its weather bulletin released Wednesday the department […]
The Blantyre Magistrate’s Court has sentenced one more bogus ‘Doctor Wongani Kumbukani Kandulu’ to six years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL). The sentence comes barely two weeks after another, illegally using the name Dr Zizwani Mwafulirwa’s but his real name is John Ben Kamanga, was also given similar custodial sentence by the same court. Both […]
Three people who formed a bogus agro dealer company- Chimwemwe agro dealers have been arrested in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba where they are alleged to have swindled farmers of close to K15 million. Mzimba police spokesperson Constable Gabriel Chiona identified the three as Moses Nkhata aged 39 Esther Mbale aged 34 and wife to […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has made a passionate plea to Parliament support staff strike who started a strike despite offer of 18 % salary increase by government, should return to work and continue with discussions with government. The strike which started Tuesday at the Parliament Building in the capital, Lilongwe, has derailed a mid-year budget […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) started their business of the Mid-Year Budget Review Meeting the People’s Party (PP) leader in Parliament Uladi Mussa condemned Peter Mutharika government for its late response to the disaster, especially in Salima where flooding took place earlier than districts in the Southern Region. He also pointed out that many affected households […]
Just as Malawi’s legislators were about to go into day two of their mid-term budget review meeting, the country’s parliamentary staff decided to keep their threats a reality and started an indefinite industrial strike with an ultimatum that they will only go back to their offices once their grievances are sorted out. The parliamentary staff […]
Taona Kankondo 29, daughter of a well known Malawian author and lecturer, Dede Kankondo, has been missing since last month, January, three years after she and her mother came back from the United States of America where they were living with her father who had died a few months earlier of brain tumor. Family spokesperson, […]
Flood victims who are camping at Nyachikadza camp in the area of traditional authority Ndamera in Nsanje district are bemoaning lack of privacy as men and women are sleeping in same tents, a situation they say is likely to put them at a risk of sexual harassment. Camp Manager Paul Khembo confirmed the development and […]
A mortuary in the central region district of Salima risk closure as the facility has overstayed without undergoing a major maintenance in order to prolong its lifespan as sometimes ‘fridge failure’ meant mourners seeing appalling changes to deceased appearances. Salima District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Michael Kayange confirmed that indeed the mortuary is in need […]
It seems it never rains but pours for Malawi’s National Aids Commission (NAC) with the latest to unleash its sting on the organization is the Forum For National Development (FND), which has accused NAC of providing inadequate funding to Community Based Organization (CBOs). The forum has since called upon NAC and government to immediately provide […]
Two Malawian men who tried to sell sale three family members including a two-year old child in July 2013 at Jendausiku , Enukweni area in Mzimba District are going to prison for seven years Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Mzuzu convicted them. According to police spokesman Maurice Chapola, the court heard that the second convict, […]
Malawi government has said as the National Assembly resumes sitting Monday to review the 2014/15 National Budget, it will table the Marriage Bill to increase legal marriage age from 14years to 18 in an effort to reduce one of the world’s highest rates of mothers death in childbirth. The government, according to Leader of the […]
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has sentenced a convicted robber Steven Nkhoma to lengthy prison term after being found guilty of robbery with violence which is contrary to section 301 of the penal code. The court heard that Nkhoma, who was a Kanyenya seller at Bwandiro, attacked a Malawi Communications and Regulatory Authority (MACRA) official at the MACRA […]
Leader and founder of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who is considered as the founding father of Prophetic Ministry in Malawi is expected to host “Prophets Conference” slated for February 6 at Golden Peacock in Lilongwe, Malawi. Bushiri says he wishes to address fellow prophets on issues of national importance and how they […]