Controversy has exploded in Mangochi district following the impending installation this Saturday of Group Village Headman (GVH) Chiwalo in Traditional Authority Nankumba’s area. Two warring parties have emerged with one being led by son to the former GVH who has vehemently vowed to stop the installation of the new chief. A source close to the family told […]
Hundreds of families have been rendered homeless in Traditional Authority Mponda in Malawi’s lake shore district of Mangochi following a severe eight-hour heavy down pour. The heavy rains, which have caused havoc in five villages, have also left one person, a girl student, injured. Mangochi District Council’s Director of Planning and Development, Ernest Kadzokoya, said […]
A group calling itself “Concerned Muslims” in the predominantly Islamic eastern region lakeshore district of Mango chi has threatened to go into the streets to protest against Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister and Peoples Party senior official Uladi Mussa accusing him of putting their religion into disrepute through his foul-mouthing speeches in various ruling […]
President Joyce Banda has said she will continue to grace events by grassroots people, saying that is why she is already referred to as the ‘fritters woman’ (mayi wa mandasi) in some quarters. The first citizen was speaking when she graced the stone-laying ceremony at Lungwena Health Centre in Mangochi District, where she said it […]
People in the area of Traditional Authority Chowe in Mangochi have all the reason to celebrate as they will soon benefit from a three-year K211, 423, 339 million health project courtesy of the Malawi Red Cross Society. The project, financially supported by the Icelandic Red Cross, will be implemented under the name, Community-based health care […]
Malawi’s former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) has appealed to its members across the country to adopt the new ideas being promoted by its current party leadership. The yellow party believes this is the only way to ensure that it bounces back to power, eight years after unceremoniously and devastatingly paving way to the Democratic […]
The Mangochi Second Grade Magistrate’s Court has convicted and sentenced 41-year-old man to seven years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for offering a man for sale, an offence which is contrary to Section 263 of the Penal Code. The court heard on Friday that James Amadu offered for sale 52-year-old Daudi Mwenyali at a price […]
A man identified as Sululu Lajabu, 86 of Nachenda Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mponda in Mangochi, committed suicide on Wednesday upon giving up with life to a chronic illness, police have said. Mangochi Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Rodrick Maida said the deceased was discovered dead in his bedroom hanging to the […]
Police in Mangochi are keeping six people in custody for suspecting to have been involved in fraud transactions at Njereza Cement Product Company in the district. Mangochi Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Rodrick Maida said they arrested the six suspects on January 2 this year in Lilongwe and Salima districts respectively following an audit report […]
President Joyce Banda Sunday reaffirmed its commitment to the promotion of safe motherhood initiative in a bid to protect pregnant women and promote maternal health in the country. President Banda was speaking at Chembe community ground in the area of traditional authority Nankumba in Mangochi after laying a foundation stone for the construction of a […]
One person died in Mangochi on Christmas day in a road accident which occurred near St. Augustine 3 Primary School while two others were rushed to the district hospital after sustaining injuries. An eye-witness, Ikira Amos said the accident happened in the morning several minutes after President Joyce Banda’s motorcade had passed from Monkey Bay […]
President Joyce Banda on Christmas Day, December 25, 2012 visited Mangochi District Hospital to cheer the sick, saying while most people celebrated the Birth of Lord Jesus Christ in various forms, many others suffering in various forms and needed others people’s care and support. The President visited the maternity ward, where four children had been […]
Atupele Austin Muluzi one of the front runners in Malawi’s presidential elections scheduled for 2014, running on the United Democratic Front (UDF) party ticket, on Saturday conducted a whistle-stop political meetings in the eastern districts of Mangochi and Machinga, considered as his party’s stronghold. The son of former president Bakili Muluzi, clad in his charismatic […]
A three – year-old girl has disappeared in Mangochi after she was attacked and devoured by a hyena, a source told the Malawi News Agency on Monday. Henry Pota said the incident happened on Saturday, December 1 at Kwitanda village in the area of Traditional Authority Chowe in the district at about 6 O’clock in […]
Malawi Police in Mangochi have arrested a 28 year old woman for allegedly murdering her husband after a fight ensure for her alleged denial of conjugal bliss to him. Mangochi Police Station Public Relations Officer, Inspector Rodrick Maida who identified the suspect as Zione Lobeni said the incident happened at Chunda village in the area […]
Police in Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi are keeping in custody a 30-year-old man they arrested on Saturday morning for sexually assaulting a female student from St. Johns DMI University which is in the district. Thomas Julius is alleged to have sexually harassed the 21-year-old Mtisunge Mtogolo when both were on a queue to withdraw money […]
Rocked by the current harsh economic downturn, people in the populous lake shore resort district of Mangochi are now selling their own blood for survival, it has been learnt. Thousands of people in the district, propelled by the ongoing economic hardships in the impoverished southern African state, are selling blood to vendors in order to make […]
Commercial sex workers in Mangochi have teamed up to promote issues of safe sex as their contribution to the reduction of HIV and Aids prevalence rate in the district. The commercial sex workers have since warned men who prefer unprotect sex that they will not be “serviced” without the ‘rubber’. “Much as we agree that […]