Malawi Police at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Saturday intercepted four chamba “cakes” weighing 4.5kg posted from Harare, Zimbabwe, and heading to the United Kingdom on Kenyan Airways. This came after the police at KIA on Thursday also intercepted another package of chamba (Cannabis sativa) weighing 4kg posted from Harare, again, en route to an […]
Police at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Thursday intercepted chamba “cakes” weighing 4kg posted from Harare, Zimbabwe, and heading to the United Kingdom on Kenyan Airways. Spokesperson for KIA Police, Sgt. Sapulain Chitonde, told Mana that the chamba was disguised as cakes and wrapped in carbon papers, which were covered with hot pepper apparently in […]
Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) police have justified the temporary closure and subsquent evacuation of all vehicles at the airport on December 26 after a hand grenade scare. Maziko Radio on Sunday quoted the airport’s police spokesperson as saying the law enforcers would not leave anything to chance as security of airports is the police priority. […]
Parliament on Monday authorised the government to borrow K14 billion to upgrade aviation security systems at Kamuzu International Airport and Chileka Airport in Lilongwe and Blantyre respectively. However, most members of parliament from the northern region took the government to task over the state of Mzuzu airport, accusing the government of abandoning the facility. Chitipa […]
Police in Lilongwe on Friday 6th November, 2015 arrested a South African national for being found in possession of Cocaine. According to Kamuzu International Airport’s Police Public Relations Officer Sgt. Sapulani Chitonde, the man identified as Siyabonga Kom flew in from Sao Paulo airport in Brazil but connected to Malawi using an Ethiopian Airline in […]
Japan on Wednesday gave Malawi a K17 billion (3.7 billion yen) grant to finance a project to expand and rehabilitate Kamuzu International Airport (KIA). Japanese Ambassador Shuichiro Nishioka exchanged grant notes with Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe during a ceremony held in Lilongwe. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Nishioka observed that […]
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for state-owned Lilongwe Handling Company (LIHACO) has been fired after illegally giving himself a K54 million token of appreciation ahead of expiry of his month to month contract. CEO Francis Mkoloma retired from the company in 2008 and was paid his pension in full but was re-engaged on contract, according […]
Malawi police headquarters has demoted Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) officers working under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for engaging in human trafficking deals, Nyasa Times has established. Impeccable sources at police’s Area 30 say the officers have since been reverted to general duties. “They let three Bangladesh nationals enter the country without their passports being stamped by […]
A lot of Malawians are travelling to Ebola affected countries in West Africa, statistics from Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) have indicated. The statistics indicate that since August 8 – 28 this year, 155 travellers from the affected countries of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Uganda were screened at KIA. “43 […]
Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) employees in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe started strike, effectively reducing airport staff and forcing theDepartment of Civil Aviation (DCA) to deploy a skeleton team of its senior officers and some Malawi Defence Forces men to manage the airport as regular aviation abandoned their posts. The workers started the strike in a row […]
A private plane from South Africa crashed in Malawi’s central region district of Dedza on Tuesday- about 71 kilometers to the capital Lilongwe. The plane – said to be belonging to Martins – had technical problems and that the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing at a nearby airport. Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) […]
Malawi government is inviting some airline business into the country after clearance by the Organisation of Civil Aviation, declaring Kamuzu International Airport in the capital Lilongwe fit for all types of aircrafts following the fixing of some of the essential facilities at the airport, Minister of Transport, Public Works and Infrastructure, Sidik Mia, confirmed there […]
Kenya Airways (KQ) on Wednesday said it has cancelled flights to and from Lilongwe, Malawi indefinitely after striking state workers shut down the main airport following a wage strike by civil servants. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, KQ which flies to Malawian capital, Lilongwe, 10 times a week, cancelled one flight on Wednesday […]
Malawi civil servants who are currently on strike over demands for better pay on Wednesday closed Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in the capital Lilongwe and took to the streets to march to the Capital Hill to present a petition on their grievances. Air Traffic controllers at KIA could not operate forcing Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airline […]
The main port of air passenger entry into Malawi is Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) at Lumbadzi. I don’t have the official figures, but I would wager that this is therefore also the main entry point for overseas tourists to Malawi. Disembarking from an international flight at KIA on December 9th., 2012 did not feel like […]
The workers strike at Malawi’s Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Tuesday entered a second day with more chaos expected as major airlines that use the facility were forced to reschedule their flights in the process delaying their passengers with almost one hour. People who were at the airport to welcome or give farewell to their […]
Staff at Malawi’s Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) have indefinitely abandoned night shifts in protest over unpaid professional allowances that date to years back, Nyasa Times has established. The workers have not been paid their dues for working overtime shifts for reasons they say are only known to the management. The implication to decision by the workers is […]
A 27-year-old Malawian woman is in police custody on charges of importing dangerous drugs after airport police found her in possession of the illegal stuff. The woman, a resident of Area 25 in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, was arrested after disembarking from an Ethiopian Airliner at the Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) from India through Addis Ababa, […]