Malawi Police have arrested a 2o-year-old woman for allegedly stealing a baby by pretending to be well-wisher at Mulanje District hospital. Mulanje Police have confirmed the arrest as Dorothy Mponda, suspected to have taken a baby on an evil intention at the district hospital. The baby whose real mother is Rhoda Charles, 16, hails from […]
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is Friday November 22 commemorating the World Prematurity Day under the global theme ‘Born too soon; Providing the Right Care; at the Right Time and in the Right Place’. Secretary for Health and Population, Dr. Dan Namarika, says in a statement made available to Nyasa Times that the theme resonates […]
Ntcheu first grade magistrate court on Monday convicted and sentenced a 32 year old woman to five years Imprisonment with Hard Labour for stealing a day old baby at Ntcheu District Hospital. The court through state prosecutor Francis Malenga, heard that on June 22, 2018, the accused Mariam Derick, stole a newly born baby boy at Ntcheu […]
Malawi Police in the central district of Ntcheu are hunting for unknown woman who stole a newly born baby boy at Ntcheu District Hospital on Friday. According to Ntcheu police publicist, Hastings Chigalu, the baby was declared missing shortly after he was delivered by his mother, Selina Madengu 18, at around 13:00 hours on June […]
One of the quadruplets delivered by 24 year old Falesi Develias at Mchinji district hospital died in the early hours of Tuesday, a hospital nurse said. According to a Nurse Midwife Technician at the hospital, Shalom Ngwira, the baby who was together with other three babies kept in a nursery had fever and she was […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre are searching for a one month old baby who was stolen in Mbayani Township in Blantyre on Wednesday after her mother left it in the custody of a six year old sister. Blantyre Police Public Relations Officer, Augustus Nkhwazi, said the mother of the missing baby, Bless Kalulu who is a […]
Police in Blantyre are appealing to members of the general public to assist with information that can help trace a baby boy believed to have been stolen in Chirimba township. According to mother of the baby, Falesi Amosi 24 of Nsenga village T/A Mphuka in Thyolo c/o Chirimba township, the baby got stolen on 19th […]
Malawi Police in Dedza district have confirmed the arrest of a 30-year-old woman Saukira Saidi who stole a day-old baby on Thursday. Saidi stole the newborn by tricking its mother, Grace Chimseu into thinking that she was a good samaritan. Police have also arrested Saidi’s husband, Gladson Jacob Banda, her mother Emily Samalani and sister […]
Malawi Police in Dedza district have intensified a search for a day-old baby who was stolen on Thursday morning. According to the police, unidentified woman stole the newborn by tricking its mother indentified as Grace Chimseu into thinking that she was a good samaritan. The trickster is said to have visited Dauya Village in the […]
Police in Lilongwe have arrested a 25-year-old woman, Rosemarie Leo who went on a rampage of stealing newborn babies from government hospitals in Lilongwe. According to national police, Leo is the one who stole a day-old baby boy at Mtenthera health centre in Nathenje on Sunday and has been caught after stealing another baby at Kamuzu Central […]
A newborn baby boy was stolen from a government hospital in Lilongwe on Sunday, police said. The incident took place at Mntenthera Health Centre at Kamphata in Nathenje. According to police, the baby was stolen while the mother Mgwilizani Kambwiri, 35, had gone out to take a bath. ”When she came back from the bathroom […]
Police in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre have arrested 40 year-old Alice Namagoya for allegedly stealing a three-week-old baby. Namagoya, who hails from Pongwe village, Traditional Authority Chikowi in Zomba, is said to be a friend to the baby’s mother, Bridget Maxwell and is expected to appear in court Thursday to answer theft of child contrary to Section […]
A baby girl is being observed at Mzimba District Hospital in northern Malawi after it was born with its intestines outside the body at Nkoma Health Centre in the district. The incident has left health authorities baffled and without concrete explanations as to what could have caused the development. Reports indicate that the baby is not […]
A 26 year old woman, Nancy Malunga of Machinga Boma gave birth to set of triplets 19 days after the death of her husband who was a driver at Masongola Secondary School in Zomba. The babies who were naturally conceived at St Lukes Hospital at Malosa in Zomba, are all beautiful girls. She said the […]
In a bizarre turn of events comes a true life story of a Malawian woman who has been found with 22 stones in her stomach, Nyasa Times understands. The incident happened to Estere Kumbweza of Chilemba village in the area of Traditional Authority Chilikumwendo in Dedza District a few days ago. Shock gripped one of […]
Police in Mzuzu on Thursday released without a charge an 18-year-old girl a day after members of her community and relations surrendered her to the law enforces for allegedly killing a two-month-old baby. Mzuzu Police spokesperson, Maurice Chapola confirmed that Lucy Phiri, a resident of Masasa Township was released because postmortem conducted on the baby’s […]
A Malawian woman in the eastern district of Balaka on Thursday delivered a baby wihout a skull where a light transparent membrane is exposing the brain and other parts inside. Malawi mum delivers baby with abnormal features. Balaka district health officer Dr. Owen Chikhwaza, explained that the abnormal features is due to generic malformations called […]
A 21-year-old woman, Saturday night gave birth to a baby boy at Dedza in a bus belonging to Premier Bus Service which was coming from Blantyre to Lilongwe. According to an eye witness, Alex Banda who was also travelling in the same bus, the woman, Maress Patrick started manifesting signs of discomfort as she complained […]