Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is this weekend holding primary elections in Balaka, Machinga and Mangochi, the United Democratic Front (UDF) stronghold, an indication that the two parties’ relationship is slowly collapsing. DPP officials have confirmed that the party will be holding the primary elections in the eastern region after the initial agreement to spare […]
At least one police officer and five suspects at Mangochi police station were rushed to hospital after a tear-gas canister which a law enforcer dropped accidentally at the station exploded. All the suspects were in a police cell. Mangochi District Hospital spokesperson Harold Kabuluzi confirmed that one police officer and five suspects were admitted to […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Deputy National Director of Women, Victoria Kingstone has downplayed the rumours making rounds that the party would not field candidates in Mangochi. Kingstone who is also an aspiring candidate for Mangochi Central parliamentary seat said this during a rally she held on Sunday at St. Augustine 3 Primary School […]
Malawi Police Service in lakeshore district of Mangochi has said it has launched an investigation that will lead them to arrest people who attacked UTM supporters in Mangochi on Sunday while the supporters where going to Namwera to conduct a political rally they scheduled to conduct. Unknown people allegedly said to be from the ruling […]
Malawi Police Services have arrested three Islamic members after a fight between two sects of Quadria and Sukut on Monday fought in a mosque in Masuku Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Bwananyambi over gifts provided by Bilal Trust. Mangochi Police Station spokesperson Rodrick Maida identified the suspects as Maulana Gibson, 28, Osman Kapungu, 23 and […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has warned political parties and youths in Mangochi District against provocative campaigns and acts capable of breaching peace in the build-up to the 2019 tripartite polls. MEC Mangochi election clerk Mcnight Kachingwe issued the warning on Friday in the district when the electoral body organized a Multiparty Liaison Committee (MPLC) aimed […]
The global dream is to have women representation in decision making positions raised to 50 percent. Prospectively, Mangochi’s dream for next year’s May 21 Tripartite Elections is way above the set target – especially in local government elective positions. With the current situation where out of 34 councillors for the district and town councils combined […]
Government has provided relief support to 269 households which were affected by the stormy rains that devastated some parts of Mangochi between November 23 and 25. Minister of Homeland Security, Nicholas Dausi presided over the symbolic presentation of material support on Friday at Senior Chief Mponda Headquarters in Mangochi where, among other things, six of […]
President Peter Mutharika on Saturday told people in Mangochi to form groups to have access to soft loans. Mutharika made the pledge when he stopped briefly at Mangochi Boma on his way to Chikoko Bay from Zomba where he presided over a fundraising luncheon for the Eastern Region Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The President arrived […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has given in to president Peter Mutharika to hold his whistle stop tours this afternoob in Mangochi while Lazarus Chakwera has rescheduled his to Sunday. MCP publicist Maurice Munthali said the rescheduling of the whistle stop tours and a rally in Mangochi to tomorrow follows a meeting the Leader […]
Mangochi Town Council has received K6, 180, 300 for the preparations of the 2018 October- November cycle for Public Works Programme (PWP) activities, the Council’s Local Development Fund Projects Officer, Obrian Mandala disclosed on Friday. Briefing an Extraordinary Full Council meeting, he said the National Local Government Finance Committee had disbursed K3, 924, 000 for […]
Malawi Police have arrested a murder suspect, Lackson Kaziputa who has been on the run since May this year after he and an accomplice, Tedson Dillian allegedly killed Manuel Sipiliano Mbewe at Chilipa in Mangochi over monetary differences. Kaziputa and Dillian picked a quarrel with Mbewe in May when the three had gone for a […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) have swept 118 illegal miners from Namizimu Forest Reserve in Mangochi during an operation they conducted at the dawn of Wednesday, both police and MDF confirmed Thursday. The operation came barely a week after chiefs, Mangochi residents and civil society organizations conducted demonstrations on Wednesday, October 10, in protest to illegal […]
Mangochi district health office (DHO) is expected to screen over 2000 women for cervical cancer, thanks to support from Community of Saint’ Egidio’s Disease Relief through Excellent and Advanced Means (DREAM). Speaking in an interview ahead of the campaign, Mangochi District Hospital Matron Mercy Paundi said the exercise will run for 4 days from 23-26 […]
Communities in Mangochi held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday on ‘illegal gold mining activities’ taking place in their areas and petitioned President Peter Mutharika through Mangochi District Commisisoner Moses Chimphepo demanding that government should deploy Malawi Defence Force (MDF) to patrol Namizimu Forest. Human rights activists Billy Mayata and Natural Resources Justice Network chairperson Kossam […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President for the Eastern Region, Bright Msaka, and the party’s Secretary General, Grelzedar Jeffrey over the weekend stormed Mangochi District to mobilize voters to register for the 2019 polls. The two conducted a two-day whistle-stop tour on Saturday and Sunday across the district where they urged the electorate to register […]
Officials in lakeshore district of Mangochi are giving warning shots over the rise in rabies in the district, saying the district hospital has already spent K26 million in treating the killer disease. District Agricultural Development Officer (Dado) Owen Kumwenda said 902 people had rabies from July 2017 to June 2018, saying 160 people have been […]
Mangochi District Peace Committee (DPC) has reiterated its commitment to continue appealing to political parties in the district to sustain peace before and after elections. Speaking on Saturday at Sangadzi Primary School, Traditional Authority (T/A) Nankumba in the districtwhen the committee jointly held a public rally with political party players, DPC Secretary Father Steven Kamanga […]