A 47-year-old Malawian man is behind bars in Ethiopia, accused of trying to smuggle cocaine from Malawi to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, hidden inside portraits. Allan Gondwe was arrested by Ethiopian security officials at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa on October 20, 2026, on his way to Southeast Asia, according to a diplomatic report […]
A Malawian woman is in police custody in India after she was allegedly caught trafficking cocaine. Indian authorities have identified the woman as Ellen Kasakatira. They say she arrested after she was found possessing 1,000 grams of cocaine. “Officers of Mumbai zonal unit had received input that one passenger Ms Ellena Kasakatira, a female Malawi […]
Days after Nyasa Times moved on the drug and alcohol abuse investigation happening in Lilongwe, Malawi police have arrested three Nigerians as part of drug dealing operation in the capital city. Police launched the operation which is aimed at detecting and disrupting drug dealers in Lilongwe, and more arrests are looming as officers are following […]
Its Area 47 again. Illicit drugs, teenage prostitution and uncontrollable drinking of ethanol based alcohol is on the rise, Nyasa Times has established. An investigation has revealed that children as young as 14 are now doing more drugs, prostitution and getting access to liquor in Area 47 of the capital Lilongwe tham any other place. […]
Area 47 in Lilongwe, Malawi, is slowly becoming another Tembisa, a location in Johannesburg, South Africa. In Tembisa, you have fiercely and dark corners that you can’t just peep your nose into. In these corners, you find fairly young people—mostly aged between 10 and 25—sit in ecstasy, injecting themselves and some sniffing a strong intoxicating […]
A civil society organization, Human Rights Defenders has written the Chinese ambassador to Malawi to seek an audience in order to discuss a possible repatriation of a Malawian woman who is now on death row in China for drug trafficking. Human Rights Defenders leader Robert Mkwezalamba said his organization wants the woman, Estina Mkasera, to […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested four people on suspicion that they were trading in cocaine, a banned drug substance. Lingadzi police spokesperson Gift Chitowe said three of the suspects are Nigerians and one is a Malawian woman. The Malawian woman busted in the drug trafficking ring has been identified as Matina Msungama, 28, from […]
Malawi Police is following leads of Asians who are actively supporting the drug market in huge police operation to deal with an ‘epidemic’ of drug and substance trade across the country, Nyasa Times understands. Since the arrest of Nigerian Alex Ojukwu nicknamed ‘Old man’ which led the detectives to other multiple drug lords who were […]
Malawi Police has pressed charges to a Tanzanian national who was arrested at Chileka International Airport in Blantyre on Sunday for possessing two kilogrammes (kg) of cocaine. The suspect, Kelvin Michael Mgosi has been charged with illegal exportation and possession of dangerous drugs. The Tanzanian was caught with the illicit drug on Sunday afternoon when […]
Malawi Police at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on arrested an Angola national for carrying cocaine concealed in male condoms and body lotion bottled which he was to fly out wit, Nyasa Times learnt from police. The suspect has been identified as Joao Matateu Manuel, 44 years old. He was arrested when his travelling luggage went […]
A 23 year old woman Linda Chinula who was stopped at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA for allegedly importing two kilogrammes of cocaine —has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL). Chinula was jailed after she was found guilty by the Lilongwe Senior Residence Magistrate court on Tuesday. She was charged with illegal importation […]
A young Malawian woman who sells cocaine has been arrested by Police at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Friday when police confiscated her luggage containing dangerous drug, cocaine weighing two kilograms. Sergeant Sapulami Chitonde KIA Public Relations Officer said the woman aged 22 has identified herself as Linda Chinula who resides in Mchesi Township in the capital […]
Three Nigerian nationals have been arrested in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe for two separate instances for allegedly being in possession of cocaine. Malawi Police confirmed that they arrested a Nigerian national Tonney Namani who for alleged possession of a substance presumed to be cocaine from his home base in Area 25 in Lilongwe. Police said the […]
A Malawian woman is currently on remand in a prison in Ghana after she was caught importing heroin into that country on Monday 21st December, 2015. According to online publications in Ghana, a Malawian, Grace Sauti Phiri, was arrested at Kotoka International Airport by Operaitves of the Narcotics Control Board for allegedly importing heroin into […]
A South African cocaine dealer who the court fined MK700, 000 or serve five years in jail after being found guilty of illegal importation of dangerous drug has asked the court to help him liaise with his family and relations in South Africa to raise the demanded sum. The South African, Siyabonga Kom, 28, was […]
Police in Lilongwe on Friday 6th November, 2015 arrested a South African national for being found in possession of Cocaine. According to Kamuzu International Airport’s Police Public Relations Officer Sgt. Sapulani Chitonde, the man identified as Siyabonga Kom flew in from Sao Paulo airport in Brazil but connected to Malawi using an Ethiopian Airline in […]
Malawi government through the Lilongwe First Grade Magistrate court has deported two Nigerian nationals for being found in possession of cocaine. The two are Emmanuel Uche 34, and Lawrence Ekemezie 33. They all pleaded guilty to the offence. The removal directions was given by senior resident magistrate Grace Chifundo Sokera, in the Lilongwe magistrate court. […]
Despite government effecting a ban on the sale of sachets in February this year, a Nyasa Times investigation has revealed that they are being sold in abundance in the township of Luwinga in Mzuzu City – less than 200 metres from Luwinga Police Unit. A tour to the Devil Street, named after Lilongwe’s ‘Devil Street’ on Tuesday, […]