The Mchinji Magistrate court has ordered 18 teenagers who were members of local criminal gang ‘Boko Harama’ and another called ‘Gaza’ to pay a fine of K5, 000 or in default serve a three month jail term for beating, robbing pupils in primary schools in the district. Head teachers for Bua and Kamuzu Primary schools […]
African-based terror groups Boko Haram and al-Shabaab’s threats to attack South Africans in retaliation for xenophobic violence should not be taken lightly. That was the warning sounded on Friday by local Islamic authority Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks, president of the Cape Town-based Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), who said at its Crawford headquarters that “we should not […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji, a central region district bordering with Zambia, have arrested 17 teenage boys who belong to several local criminal gangs such as ‘Boko Haram’ for beating and robbing pupils in primary schools in the district. The 17 boys (names withheld for legal reasons) with ages ranging from 14 to 16 were arrested […]
Groups of unruly boys have emerged in Malawi central district of Mchinji bordering with Zambia calling themselves Boko Haram, are beating and robbing pupils in primary schools in the district. Boko Haram in an infamous Nigeria’s militant Islamist group which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions. […]
The Muslim mother body in Malawi the Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has distanced itself from accusations it says are made by the Malawi police officers linking the religious body and its members to a terrorist organization. General Secretary for MAM Sheikh Dr. Salmin Omar Idruss said in a statement issued Sunday that the association […]
Malawi police has come under attack over arrest of Muslims who hacked and terrorized villagers who encroached the land believed to belong to an Islamic institution known as Blantyre Islamic mission at Chadzunda area. A grouping of Muslims hacked and terrorized the villagers on Friday as a way of forcing the them to vacate the disputed land. In a bid to […]
A Muslim clerk in Malawi is strongly condemning the acts of terrorism practices by the Boko Harram extremists in Nigeria under the pretext of fighting a Jihad, saying what they are doing is contrary to the requirement of the Jihad or a holy war. Boko Haram’s official name is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which […]