President Joyce Banda on Wednesday elevated Mangochi district council to town status and promises more infrastructure development to turn the lakeshore municipality which is a hub of Malawi tourism to upgrade into a city. The President also elevated Chief Mponda of the district to Senior Chief. Banda was speaking on Wednesday when she opened the newly […]
A Magistrate’s court in Mangochi has ordered Ibra Mambulu, 20, to pay a fine of K86, 000 or in default serve a custodial punishment of 48 months for causing death by driving recklessly. The court heard that the accused person committed the offence on July 4, last year when he was driving a motor vehicle […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda said she has directed that her administration’s ‘Cash for Work’ initiative immediately commences in order to help poor Malawians earn some money and be able to buy basic life necessities particularly food in hunger-stricken areas. The Head of State was speaking on Sunday in Monkey Bay in the resort district of […]
The FDH Bank, a subsidiary of FDH Financial Holding Limited has given assorted medical equipment valued at K700, 000 to Mangochi District Hospital The equipment comprised an autoclave used in the operating theatre, suction machine and lamps for the maternity ward, infusion pumps and ventilators among other items. FDH Bank Managing Director, Jimmy Kayuni, said […]
There was panic among Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials on Thursday afternoon in Mangochi, when one cabinet minister George Chaponda was rushed to Mangochi District Hospital after collapsing when President Bingu wa Mutharika was addressing the gathering during this year’s World Water Day. According to DPP official, who was at the scene of the incidence, […]
Thirty villagers from Group Village Headman Makokola in Mangochi district situated in Eastern Region of Malawi on Monday February 27, 2012 sang and danced following harvesting of over 200kgs of fish from two fish cages that were constructed on Lake Malawi with support from UNDP. UNDP Malawi developed the initiative on cage fish farming in […]
There was pandemonium at Nkope village in Mangochi district early Sunday when community members captured a young man who has been supernaturally breaking into people’s houses to sleep with women and girls while in their sleep. Irate villagers beat up the young man, identified as 25-year-old Gift Bakali, before surrendering him to Monkey Bay Police […]
Police in eastern district of Mangochi have arrested two men found with a human leg alleged to have been brutally amputated from a mentally challenged person. Mangochi Police Officer in Charge Ephraim Chipojola said Wednesday the two young men whose identities have not yet been made public were arrested in Machinga district on Monday, November […]
Maldeco Fisheries company has announced the resumption of operations with some conditions attached. Announcing the re-opening, the company’s board members said there will be no longer fish sales at the market but instead the new sales and distribution outlet will be established in Mangochi town. The company was temporarily closed early last month following political […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Mangochi Malombe, Romeo Brown Bwanali has had his brains turned upside down as he is buying a Public Address system using constituency development fund. Since he knows that it is wrong to do so, the MP is threatening to influence the transfer of the District Commissioner […]