The Mzuzu Senior Resident Magistrate Court has fined a truck driver MK46,000 or in default serve a six month jail term after he pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting 29 illegal Ethiopian immigrants. The driver, Stanley Mbonekera, from Kapheta Village in T/A Kalumbu in Lilongwe district, paid the fine. During the court appearance, d efense Lawyer […]
An Ethiopian national believed to have illegally entered the country was found dead in a rest house in the northern city of Mzuzu . Wednesday morning. Mzuzu Police spokesperson Maurice Chapola said the deceased whose particulars could not be verified, had booked a room at Sungabana rest house at Chibanja township in Mzuzu. A rest […]
Police in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe Sunday morning arrested 41 Ethiopians as they were trying to beat the immigration system and cross the country’s porous borders and find their way to South Africa. The 41 foreigners who are believed to have just arrived into the country through Tanzania although they claim to be from the […]
Police in Mzuzu arrested yet another Malawian citizen this week for harbouring seven Ethiopian nationals who are suspected to have entered the country illegally. Mzuzu Police Publicist, Maurice Chapola, confirmed the development, saying they arrested 40 year old Stephano Chipeta on Wednesday alongside the alleged illegal immigrants at his home, Msiki Village, near Dunduzu Road […]
Malawi Police in Mzimba have arrested 33 year old Samuel Banda for aiding seven Ethiopians to enter into the country illegally. Banda, who works as a hospital attendant at Mzimba hospital,l was arrested on Novermber 5. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times saying the suspect kept the […]
A Magistrate Court in Karonga district has convicted and sentenced four Malawians to serve a total of 16 months imprisonment with hard for aiding 62 Ethiopians to enter Malawi illegally. The four are Charles Msowoya, 40 years of Mwahimba village; Allan Kaponda, 30 years, of Mwafilaso village; Davie Kawonga, 30 years, of Malema village and […]
On Sunday at exactly 15:45 pm the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi was laid to rest amidst adorations from African leaders. The leaders took turns to hail the deceased for his spirited fight against poverty and advancement of better Africa for Africans. In his eulogy, the Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali could not […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali on Saturday said death of former Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi is a big loss to Africa as a continent. Kachali was speaking to journalists at Grand Palace after he had conveyed his condolence message to the bereaved family, saying Zenawi was a beacon of hope to African countries. “Malawi […]
Malawi authorities are rounding up suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive which has seen the 47 Ethiopians arrested by Police in the northern border district of Karonga. The illegal lags tried to enter Malawi through uncharted routes. Karonga Station Officer William Kadzayekha said the Ethiopians entered Malawi through the Ngana area and that eight of […]
Vice President Khumbo Khachali on Saturday said Malawians had every reason to celebrate President Joyce Banda’100 days in office, describing the period as successful. Kachali assured the nation that the People’s Party (PP)-led government would rid the country of the economic problems it inherited from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) with the passing of time. […]
The bodies of dozens of Ethiopians, believed to be illegal migrants, have been recovered from Lake Malawi after their overcrowded boat capsized earlier this week, police said on Thursday. “As of today, 47 bodies have been recovered,” Malawi police spokesman Davie Chingwalu told AFP, adding that they had been buried in mass graves “because the […]
Malawi Police Service has arrested five Ethiopian nationals who jumped from a cruising vehicle in a bid to escape removal from the country. Nkhunga Police spokesperson Labani Makalani told Nyasa Times that the five were “among 102 Ethiopians” who were arrested for being illegal immigrants and were set for deportation. He said they “are currently in […]
At the Malawi Embassy offices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, some employees who were sent there for being DPP loyalists are yet to accept that Peoples Party (PP) of President Joyce Banda is now in power as they continue with their culture of impunity, harassment and marginalization that epitomized the eight-year-old DPP reign. Investigations by Nyasa […]
Police in Mzimba have arrested 138 Ethiopians who were illegally in the county. Mzimba Police Station spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times on Tuesday. Nyirongo said the illegal immigrants were arrested on 16 April near Luwawa forest after Police received a tip off from members of the community. He […]
Malawi Police in northern district of Chitipa have arrested 70 Ethiopians and a Somalian for illegally entering the country. The Police have also arrested three Malawians for aiding these illegal immigrants. The three are Mashaka Mumba 26, Lughano Nyondo 32 and Albino Mwambene 31. They all come from Mwandambo village in Karonga. According to Chitipa Police Officer-in-Charge […]