Property worth millions of Kwacha is estimated to have been lost when the Lilongwe Tsoka flea market, went up in flames Tuesday evening. Stalls and property were reduced to ashes. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Police said they are investigating the matter. “We are investigating the cause of the fire.” said […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has questioned the involvement of the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) in providing security to its warehouse which was set on fire on by suspected arsonists, saying there was no arrangement between the Commission and the state spy agency. MEC has also said that it is not ruling out arson […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it is now suspecting that some people deliberately set on fire its warehouse in the capital Lilongwe in which all electoral materials that were in the Warehouse including 2,400 ballot boxes which contained ballot papers, 81 gas cylinders, 168 gas lamps, were destroyed. This was said at its emergency […]
Malawi’s human rights groups have said the fire incident that destroyed disputed votes for Lilongwe City South East Constituency at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe on Monday night smell of foul play and conspiracy in a bid to destroy evidence in the ongoing electoral dispute currently in court. The warehouse was gutted by fire […]
Malawi’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has rejected accusations that it is behind the fire that gutted the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe on Tuesday. Opposition parties claim that the fire was deliberately started to destroy evidence that could have overturned the parliamentary victory of a member of DPP. Last week, a high […]
Malawi government has said it will institute an “independent and through investigation” into the string of suspected arsons into public and private institutions recently. Ministry of Information, Tourism and Civic Education on Tuesday said government is deeply concerned at the “sudden incidents” of fire which some quarters believe is the work of arsonists. “Government has […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) says it is “suspicious” with the fire which set ablaze Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse n Lilongwe where ballot boxes were being kept. The ballots are at the centre of disputed race in which the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Bently Namasasu narrowly beat Ulemu Msungama of the Malawi Congress Party […]
Several of the gas cylinders and lamps which Malawi borrowed from Zimbabwe and a total of 1,500 ballot boxes are among the materials feared to have been destroyed by the fire that gutted the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouses in Lilongwe after a suspected arson. The warehouse has been set ablze amidst a High Court […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Dr Jessie Kabwira suspects foul play in the cause of fire that has set ablaze Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Warehouse in Lilongwe where a vote recount was supposed to take place. Although the Lilongwe City Assembly was called in immediately to put off the fire, there has been extensive […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe, where disputed votes for for Lilongwe City South East Constituency ballots were expected to be recounted has been destroyed by a large fire set on by unknown arsonists. The fire started soon after unknown vehicle that drove into the vicinity, Area 4 and a suspected petrol bomb was […]
Assorted mechandise worth millions of Kwachas have been destroyed by fierce fire which started around 9pm on Sunday just when some residents were watching Germany beating Argentina in the just-ended football World Cup final. According to one of the businessmen, who ply his business at the main market in Mzuzu Mr Mwalweni, said he received a […]
A fierce fire believed to have started from an electric fault has destroyed K3 million worth of property at Malawi Fertiliser Company (MFC) in Liwonde early Monday morning. The fire started around 2 am and Zomba City Council firefighters managed to contain it a few hours later. According to Machinga Police publicist Constable Andrew Kingston […]
Assorted merchandises worth millions of Malawi kwacha have been destroyed by fierce fire at Mzuzu Main Market leaving hundreds of traders destitute. The fire, which started around 6.30pm, has comprehensively destroyed the whole area where fresh fish and bananas are sold. Authorities are yet to establish the cause but one of the hawkers, Isaac Nyirenda, told […]
Fierce fireSunday midnight razed to ashes Kasungu Teachers’ Training College (TTC) office block which was the Craft, Arts and Technology (CRT) department and housed 1200 mattresses that were being treated for bed bugs (nsikidzi). Both the college principal, Staliko Chibw,e and Agriculture Trading Centre (ATC) Lilongwe Supervisor in the Pest Control Service Section which was hired to do the fumigation to […]
Severe fire Thursday night burnt down another family house at Manja Township in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre damaging property worth unspecified sum of money. The house, located a few meters away from Manja Primary School, belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Tembo. According to eye witnesses who spoke to Nyasa Times, the blaze was spotted […]
Property worth millions of Kwacha including essential revenue documents has been ravaged in a fierce fire that has razed part of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) House. Situated along the Haile Selassie road in Blantyre’s central business district, the gutted two-story building seats ESCOM’s head offices. The fire, which started just after midnight, is suspected […]
Sombre mood swallowed up people of Mgawi Village in Kasungu District Thursday after fire burnt to death a six-year-old girl. The deceased, Agnes Phiri, was playing with three friends inside a make shift shelter made of grass when it was caught by accidental fire. “It was around 1600hrs when the four children were playing in the temporary […]
An aggressive fire has gutted down Ekwendeni Main Market in Mzimba District destroying merchandises worth millions of kwacha. The fire started just before 11pm on Monday and consumed a larger part of the market, which is along the Mzuzu-Karonga M1 Road, leaving many bread winners stranded. The incident has reportedly also left a security guard working in […]