Malawi Police have arrested eight suspects connected to the cause of fire at Taifa Market in Mzuzu. Taifa Market found itself in flames and assorted merchandise worth millions of Kwachas have been destroyed by fierce fire which started around 10 PM on Thursday. According to police station officer-in charge John Nyondo, the fire emanated from […]
Three employees of Shayona Cement Factory in Kasungu are battling for their lives at Kamuzu Districtl Hospital whilst their friend had already died to the hot ashes that poured at them during the course of their work. The deceased Yeremia Kaonga, 21, from Chimgole village in Traditional Authority (TA) Wimbe in the district, was with […]
The fire that gutted Kalikuti Hotel in Lilongwe last Friday may have been caused by faulty electric wires which sparked to start the fire, hotel manager has said. Misuchi Msumba, the hotel manager, said the fire had then gotten to all the furniture from the collision of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) wires. He […]
A month or weeks will hardly pass without hearing of a fire accident in Lilongwe or elsewhere! Black smoke billowed above the capital late Friday night as fire tore through the Kalikuti Hotel, causing major damage but no injuries or deaths, Nyasa Times has the details. The fire started at around 11pm on Friday , October 31 and by midnight, […]
Malawi government has said it has switched on computer laboratory which is used for training of Ifmis [the Integrated Financial Management Information System] users after containing a a fire scare that affected the office late on Saturday evening. Spokesman of Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Develeopment, Nations Msowoya, said the servers were shut […]
Fire has razed down the kitchen of Mchinji District Hospital in central Malawi, destroying cooking appliances, furniture and other items. The fire started at around 2am, according to Mchinji police publicist Moses Kajawa Nyirenda. The cause is yet to be established, but they suspect to have been ignited by an electrical fault. Meanwhile, armed police are […]
Following a fire which affected Lilongwe Branch on the evening of October 4, Standard Bank announced it is open for business as usual from Monday. “The fire was put out and the situation is under control. The branch will proceed to open for business on Monday, October 6, 2014 as normally,” Standard Bank chief executive Andrew Mashanda […]
A fire ripped through the Standard Bank in Malawi’s Capital City Lilongwe on Saturday. Although the cause of the fire could not be readily ascertained, the bank building was badly affected by the inferno. According to the eyewitness, the fire started around 5pm when the bank was closed. The fire caught the top side of the […]
Property worth millions of Kwacha is estimated to have been lost when the Mbayani market in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, went up in flames during the night of Sunday September 29. Mbayani market went up in flames Sunday night, reducing the shops to mere smouldering rubble. The cause of the fire, claimed to have started […]
A biscuit and confectionary shop belonging to Universal Industries in Mzuzu was gutted in fire on Wednesday. The fire started at around lunch hour when all the workers in the shop had gone for lunch except the manager and his junior. One of the workers at depot told Nyasa Times that one staff Mathews Banda […]
Ministerial Committee on market fires has attributed the increase in fire incidents that continue to torch down marketplaces across the country to weak punishment and negligence by the city and district councils. The Committee’s chairperson and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Tarsizio Gowero however said they were still working on establishing what really […]
A man has been confirmed dead when three furniture shops were razed in a fire in the early hours of Tuesday along the Ndirande-Chinseu Road in Blantyre. The man was sleeping in the shop at the time of the incident. The cause of the fire is not yet known and so is the deceased’s identity. […]
A warehouse belonging to Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) in Zomba has been gutted down by fire. The fire, which started at around 1pm on Thursday has destroyed answer sheets for 2014 Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) and the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations. Fire fighters from the Zomba City Council (ZCC) […]
Fire has gutted down a house belonging to head of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for Chikwawa Police Station destroying property worth K2. 5 million. Detective Inspector Emmanuel Jere confirmed the incident to. He said that fire erupted on Friday afternoon when all family members were away. Jere said he does not suspect any foul play […]
The Public Affairs Committee (Pac) has dismissed claims by opposition Peoples Party (PP) that it failed to take a stand on the fire that razed down Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) warehouse in Area 4, Lilongwe last month. Fire believed to be an act of arson burnt to ashes ballot boxes and other electoral materials days […]
Malawi Government has said that the probe into the mysterious fire at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Headquarters in Blantyre is almost through and due for release. The country’s Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa has also said that another probe into the suspected disappearance of some 30 000 metric tonnes of […]
The unrelenting nefarious acts of setting fire to markets and other property in the cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu over the last several weeks are a clarion call enough to jostle Presidents Peter Mutharika and his government into a once-and-for-all solution. Whatever the outcome of findings on causes of the strange fires, electrical faults, […]
Leader of opposition and president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Rev Dr Lazarous Chakwera has called on government to insure all main markets as a precaution to the safety of traders goods. Chakwela made the remarks after he visited Lilongwe Tsoka Market which was gutted by fire Tuesday night and asked government to “swiftly investigate […]