A court has fined a father K90 000 for refusing his child medical attention when he fell sick. The Second Grade Magistrate court in Chikwawa has ordered a 35 – year – old man, Madukano Nkhuwawe to pay the fine or in default to serve 15 months jail term for child neglect. State prosecutor Emmanuel Namarwa […]
Nkhunga Police Station in Nkhotakota is keeping in custody a couple following a mysterious disappearance of their two week old child in the district. The station’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ignatius Esau confirmed the arrest of Issa Byson,35, from Misoya Village Traditional Authority Liwonde in Machinga District and Adjah Phiri,32, from Kanyenda Village, Senior Chief […]
The Government of Japan has commended the partnership between UNICEF and the Government of Malawi for its contribution in reducing child deaths through the establishment of village clinics. Village clinics have cut the distance mothers have to travel to health centres with sick children making basic health services available within the village. Ambassador of Japan […]
Senior Chiefs in Malawi want government to push through Parliament a bill that will make the marriage age to shift to 21 from 15 in order to rescue many girls who are being forced into early marriages. The senior chiefs spoke this at Sun and Sand Holiday Resort in Mangochi during a two day meeting […]
Ordinarily the arrival of a newly-born baby in a family is supposed to create happiness to the home and not the other way round. But a couple in Malawi’s lakeshore district of Nkhotakota has disintegrated barely six months after welcoming into their family unit bouncy twins. To worsen the situation, the mother has abandoned the […]
The First Grade Magistrate Court in the northern city of Mzuzu has slapped 32 year old man a 114 months imprisonment with hard labor sentence for scalding his son’s hands because he had tested his meal without authority. The convict, Master Zulu’s pleas for a non-custodial sentence failed to impress the court to let him […]
A 12-year-old Malawian boy is in great anguish after his biological father allegedly burnt his hands in a hot frying pan for testing his rice pudding. The father, 32-year-old Master Zulu, has since been apprehended by police and charged with an offence of intending to cause grievous body harm which is contrary to section 353 […]
There was drama at Blantyre Magistrates Court on Friday morning when a woman who snatched a month-old baby, Upile from the hospital cried for forgiveness from the biological mother, Bridget Taombe before she was convicted and sentenced to 60 months (five years) imprisonment with hard labour (IHL). Nancy Lamulani 24, pleaded guilty of abducting a […]
Mangochi Second Grade Magistrate’s Court has convicted a woman and sentenced her to serve one year and half prison term upon finding her guilty of concealing birth. The offence of concealing birth of a child contravenes section 232 of the penal code and attracts a maximum punishment of five years imprisonment with hard labour when […]
One of children homes in Blantyre city, Chimwemwe Children’s Centre has been earmarked for closure due to its continuous violation of child rights as it has turned into a breeding place for prostitutes and drug peddlers, Nyasa Times can reveal. However, Blantyre City Council, despite recommendations from Blantyre District Health and Social Welfare offices to […]
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Welfare Anita Kalinde on Wednesday took her motherly role by visiting street kids at the social welfare rehabilitation centre in Lilongwe and underscored the need to provide them with more support and explore ways of how they can be re-united with their parents. Kalinde said like any other […]