A strongly-worded joint statement by the Youth Association for Democracy (YADEMA) and Gender Justice in Malawi has reprimanded the Malawi Police Service for failing to curtail thugs in the Capital City in Lilongwe who on Tuesday scandalized and stripped naked women dressed in trousers to the point of almost raping them. In the statement signed […]
Women activist have threatened that they will mobilise women to the streets to perform a naked protest if streets vendors will continue harassing them for wearing trousers, miniskirts or see-through leggings. Vendors in the capital Lilongwe on Tuesday vented their anger for being removed from the streets by attacking women who wore trousers, miniskirts and […]
Irate male youth claiming to be street sellers in the capital city Lilongwe on Tuesday embarrassingly striped naked women who had put on trousers and the latest trend in fashion amongst the ladies, the leggings. The boys accused the women of improper and indescent dressing. Nyasa Times correspondent Dennis Chirwa said he saw the gang […]
Lilongwe football followers have expressed their frustrations over government’s decision to relocate the multimillion kwacha state of the art national stadium the Chinese are planning to build. The much hyped multimillion kwacha stadium, was meant to be constructed at a site between Area 47 and Area 49 Gulliver in the capital city. However, Malawi Government […]
Irate community members of Chiudzira Township in the area of TA Tsabango in Lilongwe on Saturday killed two suspected thieves and seriously injured another as they attempted to steal from one of the houses. The two deceased alleged thieves, only identified as Maxwell Band and Isaac, wanted to steal from the house of 30-year-old Chimwemwe […]
Chief Executive Office of Lilongwe City Assembly, Kelvin M’mangisa, was on Monday attacked by a gang suspected to belong to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) at Kamuzu International Airport as he joined the welcoming party of President Bingu wa Mutharika M’mangisa confirmed that the machete wielding gang restrained him from welcoming Mutharika at the airport as […]
Malawian vendors are back in the streets of the capital Lilongwe barely 24 hours after they violently engaged riot police in heavy skirmishes that left several injured and 40 of them arrested. Business came to a standstill particularly in Old Town and the surrounding areas Thursday following the fracas that ensued after Lilongwe City Council […]
The much talked state-of-the-art national stadium which is supposed to be constructed by the Chinese government will not be in the capital city Lilongwe as earlier on indicated. Chinese Ambassador to Malawi, Pan Hejun, told reporters in Lilongwe that the project will be moved to the commercial city of Malawi, which is Blantyre. “Actually, we […]
The United States of America government on Thursday swiftly issued an alert for its citizens in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, warning them to exercise extreme caution following a fracas that ensued between riot police and streets sellers. “We suggest having several days’ worth of provisions in your residence, as we saw stores close unexpectedly during July 20 […]
Business in Lilongwe Old Town came to a standstill on Thursday following a fracas that ensued between riot police and vendors, leaving several people injured and some shops looted over the disagreements of the locality of the traders. Trouble begun in the morning when Lilongwe City Assembly workers, under police guard, started to clean up the […]
The Malawi Defence Force (MDF), through the 94th Battalion of Kamuzu Barracks, Tuesday marched through the streets of the capital Lilongwe to commemorate its Freedom of the City status. Led by Major Blaise Saenda, Commanding Officer (CO) the officers and soldiers, in their colourful ceremonial red tunics and black red stripped trousers, and other sections […]
There was commotion at the Shoprite complex in Lilongwe when citizens reacted angrily wen a Malawian of Indian origin slapped a worker in full view of the customer. The incident happened at a popular restaurant called Chicken Inn which was formerly housed a Hungry Lion cafe. According to an eyewitness Nyasa Timesinterviewed at the scene, […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday had the real feeling himself that he is ruling an angry and sad nation when scores of people in Lilongwe booed him on his arrival from Doha, Qatar. Mutharika left the country on December 8 for Tanzania where he attended that country’s 50th independence celebrations and proceded to […]
Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe on Wednesday was the scene of running battles between the police and streets vendors after the Lilongwe City Council launched a campaign to confiscate their merchandise. Trouble begun when city workers under police guard started to clean up the streets and then impounded goods from the vendors along the Malanganga roadside. […]