Vocal human rights activist and chairperson of Human Rights Defenders Coalitoon (HRDC) Gift Trapence on Saturday morning survived a horrific accident along Zalewa road enroute to Blantyre. HRDC said Trapence was out of danger in the accident which saw the vehicle over-turning three times. He said the accident happened when Trapence was trying to avoid […]
Remains of late Elias Joseph Yalu, bodyguard to Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for Southern Region, Kondwani Nankhumwa, were laid to rest on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at his home village, Chibuli, in senior chief Ndamera’s area in Nsanje district. He was buried with full […]
A security bodyguard to Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Kondwani Nankhumwa, has been killed in a road accident. Kamuzu International Airport police spokesperson Sapulain Chitonde identified the bodyguard as police officer Sub/Inspector Ellias Yalu. Yalu, 43, was killed in the road accident on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, according to Chitonde. “He died after a […]
Two people died in in a fatal two-car accident in Mchinji on Monday. A Toyota Carina, registration number NN 4810, driven by Gabriel Sitima, 41 was coming from Mchinji/Mwami Zambia border heading to Mchinji Boma and had a female passenger on board. Upon arrival at Kadula Village, the driver lost control of the vehicle and […]
At least two people have died while three others are battling for their lives at Nkhatabay District Hospital following a motor vehicle accident that occurred at Kawalazi turn-off in the district on Sunday. According to the police, the deceased have been identified as Kelvin Kasambara from Chikondawana Village in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) […]
Many people have paid tribute to Mzuzu-based urban musician K-Man who was pronounced dead at Mzuzu Central Hospital after he got involved in a car crash as he drove around the city to celebrate the annulment of the 2019 presidential election Tuesday night. K-Man, born Khwima Moyo, was a household name amongst urban music lovers […]
A bus belonging to National Bus Company on Sunday hit a stationary freightliner in Zomba, injuring seven passengers including a three-year child. No death has been recorded and passengers who picked various degrees of injuries were rushed to Zomba Central Hospital. The bus, which was going to Blantyre from Mzuzu, hit a freightliner at Matawale […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) has lost another member of its community days after it buried its deputy vice chancellor, Professor Fred Msiska, who died while en route to Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in the commercial capital Blantyre for specialist treatment. Police, who confirmed the accident to Nyasa Times, identified the deceased as 32 year old Dyton Mike Nakhuto, a […]
Malawi continues to hog the limelight as a country where lives of innocent people are lost due to road accidents as this year’s Christmas period covering December 24 to December 26 turned tragic for 8 people who died in as many accidents on the country’s roads. Despite the fact that the number is a reduction […]
Following continued occurrences of accidents on the roads of Malawi involving big buses, some members of the general public are asking if the Road Traffic Directorate should be advising bus companies to be liaising with the Directorate whenever they are employing new bus drivers. This follows the accident that happened in the early hours of […]
Two people have died in an accident that occurred at Waliranji in Mchinji, on Saturday evening. The two, Deborah Ngalande 35, and a 14 months baby, Tiyamike Mwale died on the spot when an Isuzu four tonne Lorry registration number MHG 4676 and a Renault saloon car registration number NU8481 had a head on collision […]
A small single engine plane crashed on Saturday landed in a sugarcane field in Nchalo, Chikhwawa .The plane does not belong to Illovo but the owners were contracted to do some work at Nchalo. No one was injured but the base of the plane has been extensively damaged. Illovo spokesperson Ireen Phalula said the plane […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is mourning the tragic death of one of its loyal members and a party social media operative, Stella Chauwa. Chauwa, popularly known as Lissa Ashley Mcnilly in social media circles, was killed on Monday along with her two children in a car crash at Raiply along the Chikangawa Forest M1 […]
Vice President Everton Chimulirenji on Saturday cheered victims of the Nkhoma-Kamphata road accident that has claimed 8 lives and left 14 injured with one at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Chimulirenji who is also Minister responsible for the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA), said the accident was so shocking and a big blow to […]
Blantyre district has registered more road accidents in the first half of 2019 as compared to the same period last year. Public Relations Officer for Blantyre Police Station, Sub-Inspector Augustus Nkhwazi said in an interview that the district has registered 720 road traffic accidents in the first half of this year compared to 58 road […]
Sailesi Kampango, a man who was suspected to have transferred UTM president Saulos Chilima’s name to Chizumulu Island during 21 May elections, has been killed in a road accident in Dedza , police has confirmed . Dedza Assistant Police Spokesperson Cassim Manda said the vehicle that Kampango was traveling in from Lilongwe to Dedza hit […]
Four people including a driver died on the spot while another one is in critical condition after the car they were traveling in collided head on with a truck in Dedza on Saturday, police have confirmed. Dedza Police has confirmed the and identified the driver as Lazarus Chimange, aged 36, from Muso village in the […]
Malawi Police are still investigating how a speeding train collided with a speed construction vehicle on Friday in Blantyre leading to one serious injury. The accident happened in Area one, near Ayobe in Machinjiri. Police in Blantyre say the train was coming from Limbe going to Balaka direction whilst the tipper vehicle was coming from […]