A murder investigation has been launched in Dowa after a 31-year-old bank employee was found dead in a blood-soaked vehicle abandoned along the Dzaleka–Dowa Boma road, in a discovery that has left the local community reeling. The victim, named as Tathokoza Salimu, was found last evening at Chinkhota Village, near Tatolonga Bridge — in circumstances […]
Malawi Police in Dowa have arrested a 28-year-old man for accusing a couple of stealing money through magic. The police have arrested 28-year-old Lingison Simba at Mponela trading centre for allegedly causing havoc after accusing a couple of stealing money through magic. Mponela Police spokesperson Kaitano Lubrino said prior to his arrest, Simba went to […]
A 41-year-old man in Dowa has been killed on allegations that he stole fresh green maize from a garden. Police have since arrested a 49-year-old man on allegation that he killed the suspected thief. The suspect has been identified as Batson Selemani from Ntchenenje Village in Traditional Authority Mkukula whereas the deceased is Andrea Gift […]
Four people are in hospital following various degrees of injuries they sustained in a road accident in Dowa after a motor vehicle they were travelling in overturned. Police say the accident happened at Mount Meru Millers along Mponela-Lilongwe M1 road and involved a motor vehicle registration number DA 7691 which was being driven by Snowden […]
A 21-year-year old woman is in police custody for allegedly dumping her newly born baby into a pit latrine. Dowa police spoke person, Gladson M’bumpha has confirmed the incident. He says they suspect that the woman, Kesta Andrew, gave birth on Tuesday but dumped the baby into the pit latrine on Wednesday. The baby was […]
A Dowa-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) called We Can Make it Again is empowering young women, girls and men through training in tailoring and designing in order for them to attain financial independence. In an interview, the organisations founder, Rosten Pwando, said he thought of coming up with the initiative to help women and girls attain […]
A 24-year-old man has been killed in a love triangle after he was caught having sexual intercourse with a married woman during day light down a river bank. Police have identified the slain love bird as Yokonia Weston who has been killed after he was caught red handed in sexual romps with another man’s wife […]
Malawi Police in Dowa have used teargas to disperse angry villagers who were about to administer mob justice on a 38-year-old woman accused of practising witchcraft. The police came just on time when the angry mob was about to kill the woman. In the commotion that ensued, villagers smashed the windscreen of a police vehicle. […]
One of Malawi’s coronavirus hot spot of Dowa district reported zero COVID-19 cases for 32 days, the District Health Office has confirmed. The District Health Office Medical Officer, Dr. Jacqueline Kanjadza said since the district started registering confirmed COVID -19 cases in May, this year, it has only reported 95 active cases as follows: Mponela 13, […]
“We cannot go on and watch as we suffer. Enough is enough!” These are the words that have been echoed from church and traditional leaders under Traditional Authorities Chakhaza and Kayembe in Dowa district against gender-based violence (GBV). During a six days GBV and Harmful Cultural practices Sensitisation stint by the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), […]
A 45-year-old Isaac Nyati, from Khombe village, Traditional Authority Chiwere in Dowa, has killed himself after his wife told him stop drinking beer. Dowa Police Publicist Gladson M’bumpha said the incident happened on Saturday morning, August 29 2020 at Khombe Village where the deceased was found hanging in a nearby garden. M’bumpha claimed the deceased […]
Traditional Authorities (T/As) Mponela, Dzoole, Kayembe and Chakhaza of Dowa have called upon the Malawi Police Service to improve on their service delivery if they want to regain public trust. The chiefs made the call on Thursday during a Station Executive Committee (SEC) meeting, which the Mponela Police Station organized to evaluate security issues for […]
Area Development Committees (ADCs) in Dowa are demanding that government should devolve authority over Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and District Development Fund (DDF) to ADCs and traditional leaders so that citizens can experience meaningful transformation. The committees lamented that elected officers – councilors and members of Parliament (MPs) – have failed to utilize the funds […]
Some people in Dowa have shown reluctance and lack of seriousness with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) messages, it has emerged. Dowa District Health Office and Dowa District Information Office are conducting sensitisation meetings to raise awareness in the district’s communities about the disease. One of the officers taking part in the awareness campaign, Tiyamike Masankhula, […]
Officials from the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi (NONM) have advised health care workers remaining t a health centre in Dowa to leave the post. NONM’s executive director Shouts Simeza said all the remaining heath workers at Bowe health centre should leave the place following the recent attack on a nurse by […]
A 65 year old man, Notice Chafumbula of Kafula Village in Dowa claims to have a degree in healing. The other degrees which he obtained from heaven in 2015 at a University called Chescori Sasa Somiley. Chafumbula explained that he was taken to heaven in 2015, where God sent him to school to learn healing […]
Government has suspended all mining activities in Dowa after reports that the industry was dominated by foreigners. The people of Dowa rose up against the foreign miners who were given permission by the ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources. Member of parliament for Dowa east Richard Chimwendo Banda pressed the SOS, saying the foreigners […]
Health authorities in Dowa say they are investigating why some villagers in the district destroyed a vehicle and a house of a nurse at Bowe Health Centre following the death of a pregnant woman. The villagers said they destroyed the property in anger after the nurse refused to wake up to help the women deliver […]