Members of Malawi’s security agencies are going head to head this week at the 2026 Inter-Security Agencies Sports Festival, which opened at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe. Homeland Security Minister Peter Mukhito, who presided over the opening ceremony, called the festival a powerful symbol of unity, discipline and joint service to the nation. He said […]
Malawi Government has released 15 of the 20 Zambians arrested and imprisoned some three weeks ago for illegally entering the country and settling in Kasungu National Park. The Malawian authorities arrested 28 Zambians for the offence which is contrary to the Parks and Wildlife Acts sections 32, 33, 35 and 36 of the Republic of Malawi. […]
The Mzuzu Magistrate Court has unconditionally discharged an Immigration Officer and a bank teller after the State prosecutors failed to bring evidence or parade witnesses, Nyasa Times has leant. In October 2012, Fiscal Police arrested 27 year old Daniel Chitokoseni, a low level Immigration Assistant and 25 year old Stella Kamsiya, a bank teller for Malawi […]
Former Chief Immigration Officer in the Bakiliu Muluzi administration David Kambilonje died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 58 after a long battle with high blood pressure. Kambironje retired from the department in 2006 soon after his acquittal by the Blantyre Magistrate’s Court on five counts of corruption and abuse of office, […]
Police in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre are intensifying their sweeping exercise which seeks to flash out illegal immigrants who are flocking the city. Southern region police spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa says the police have so far rounded up 40 illegal immigrants mostly from Pakistan and India since the start of the exercise on Tuesday and are […]
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 […]
President Mrs Joyce Banda has said Malawi has high rate of illegal immigrants most of whom claim to be asylum seekers from countries that have not been at war for a very long time , saying all illegal immigrants should be removed. Banda, speaking on Friday when she presided over the commissioning of police-officer cadets […]
The Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Court Tuesday adjourned a case in which three immigration officers are answering charge of aiding illegal immigrant entry. The three were identified in the court as Dickens Chiutsi(41), Rex Peter Phiri(54) and 47 year old Bernard Zenifala Kadetseka .They are answering charge of aiding and abetting unlawful entry into Malawi […]
The Malawi Department of Immigration over the weekend conducted an operation which saw 34 foreigners apprehended. Immigration Public Relations Officer, Martha Gonondo said the group comprised of 15 Pakistanis, 11 Indians and 8 Chinese nationals. “Out of the 34, 15 were released after their relatives had produced their valid documents while the others were taken […]
Barely a day after the Mzuzu Magistrate Court acquitted an Immigration Officer on corruption charges, Fiscal Police on Monday arrested another Immigration Officer and a Bank Teller on allegations that they conspired to steal MK70,000 belonging to the Malawi government. The arrests come barely a few months after Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda singled out […]
The Mzuzu First Grade Magistrate Court has acquitted a senior Accounts Assistant working for the Immigration department in Mzuzu of three counts bordering on corruption after the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) failed to prove that the Officer corruptly solicited MK3500. The ACB also failed to parade its principal witness in Court despite wasting tax payer’s […]
The Airtel Rising Stars tournament kicks off Monday next week in Nairobi, Kenya and local teams that qualified, Joyce Banda Foundation (in the boys category) and Namalimwe Secondary School (in the girls category) risk not travelling there due to delays of passport issuance by the Immigration Department. Sponsors Airtel paid for about 35 passports for […]
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 […]
Newly appointed Immigration Chief, Hudson Mankhwala has assured Malawians that his department was doing all it takes to reduce the influx of illegal immigrants into the country. “We are making sure that security is enhanced in all our border posts so that the issue of illegal immigrants should be history and that any foreign entry […]
Democracy is all about transparency. We at the Nyasa Times opposed the Bingu wa Mutharika government because of the backroom deals that characterized some public appointments and firing. We are afraid a similar trend may emerge with the new Joyce Banda administration. There are four cases that we can point to: The ACB Director was […]
Chief Immigration Officer Elvis Thodi has been fired, Office of the President and Cabinet has confirmed. His contract was ending in August 2012 but government says it will not be renewed. Thodi has been fired a day after a meeting between President Joyce Banda and Immigration officers at the New State House on Sunday. The […]
One of the accomplices of lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Ali Kaka, was on Wednesday arrested at Chileka International Airport for allegedly using his father’s passport. Police and Immigration officials confirmed the arrest of Kaka and said he was being probed why he used his father’s passport to leave the country. Kaka was arrested alongside Kasambara, Arthur […]
The Department of Immigration has expressed worry over the number of illegal immigrants staying in Malawi. The Department’s Public Relations Officer, Peter Kakatera told Nyasa Times in an interview that three-quarters of illegal immigrants staying in Malawi are aided by indigenous Malawians. He said this is hindering the process of identifying the unwarranted immigrants as […]