A football club’s main sponsor accused of corruption and match-fixing has finally been cleared, after magistrates threw out the long-running case that prosecutors astonishingly failed to bring to court for more than two-and-a-half years. Mary Woodworth, of Friends of Mulanje and chief backer of FOMO Football Club, walked free from the Limbe Dalton Senior Resident […]
Malawi’s leading and multi-award winning online news source, Nyasa Times on Saturday night celebrated its iconic 10 years of existence and service in style with pomp and grandeur amid promises of soldering on with an extra bravado vowing to continue powering on serving Malawians at home and in the Diaspora without fear or favour. Hundreds of guests, […]
The British High Commissioner, Michael Nevin, on Thursday did a stretch with Brendan Rendall, a British gentleman who is, among other goals, running from Chitipa in the north to Nsanje in south to raise funds for the construction of a science block at an orphanage school in Mulanje, Malawi. In the sweltering heat of Salima—typical […]
A British citizen Brendan Rendall will from next week embark on a run from Chitipa to Nsanje to raise funds for the construction of a laboratory block at Friends of Mulanje Orphanage (FOMO) independent Secondary School. Rendall plans to will run the race of approximately 1,300 kilometres called the ‘Run Malawi Challenge’ from the furthest […]
The Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre has given back a piece of land which government grabbed from two Mulanje women who run an orphanage and gave it businessman Davie Kanyoza saying the act was unconstitutional. The decision by three High Court Judges, Justices Healy Potani, Dr. Micheal Mtambo and John Chirwa upholds both the High […]
Blantyre-based businessman Davie Kanyoza and a protégé of the once mighty business magnate Leston Mulli , has filed for appeal against the Constitutional Court’s ruling to remove him as party in a case where Mulanje charity worker Mary Woodworth is contesting a government decision to lease her piece of land to the businessman. A panel of three […]
The Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre has rebuffed businessman Davie Kanyoza and a protégé of the once mighty business magnate Leston Mulli from joining a case where Mulanje charity worker Mary Woodworth is contesting a government decision to lease her piece of land to the businessman. A panel of three High Court Judges consisting of Justices […]
The owners of a piece of land in Mulanje which was taken away from them by the Chitakale Plantations Limited , Mary Woodworth and Lisineti Gremu have asked the Constitutional Court to commence judicial review on how government leased the land to David Kanyoza a business partner of Leston Mulli who owns Chitakale. Mulli, who […]
Bizarre! This is how to best describe the arrest of Jimmy Maloya, a Mulanje resident and brother to the late Hastings Maloya, a well known journalist who died almost three months ago even after the law enforcers, Police however refused o arrest him. Weird, because even the law enforcers, refused to arrest Jimmy Maloya in […]
The once mighty business magnate Leston Mulli swallowed his pride and paid a whopping K18 million to a Mulanje charity worker Mary Woodworth who asked the Commercial Court in Blantyre to wind up Mulli’s Chitakale Plantations Limited for failure to pay the debt. High Court (Commercial Division) Judge Justice John Katsala was expected to wind […]
The High Court in Zomba, Friday removed a stay obtained by Chitakale Plantations Limited stopping the hearing of a case where two Mulanje women are asking the High Court Commercial Division to wind up the company for failing to pay them about K26 million. Chitakale Plantations Limited is owned by Leston Mulli, once a powerful […]
Friends of Mulanje Orphans (FOMO) a charitable organisation looking after more than 5,000 orphans has finally got back the land which was grabbed by powerful business magnate during the late President Bingu Mutharika’s reign, Leston Mulli. Thousands of orphans from FOMO’s 13 centres in Mulanje gathered at the disputed land at Chitakale in Mulanje where […]
President Joyce Banda has commended humanitarian campaigner who helps thousands of orphans in Malawi through charity Friends of Mulanje (Fomo), Mary Woodworth. “The work that your organisation is doing is the same work that I am doing across the country,” President Banda said at Sanjika Palace during an audience which she had with members of the […]
Dean of Education and Media Studies at the Polytechnic a constituent college of the University of Malawi, Grey Mang’anda, has described Malawi journalists as cowards for failing to write balanced stories for fear of being intimated or tortured by some powerful politicians. Mang’anda said this on Monday in Blantyre during the start of the four-day Broadcasting Ethics and […]
England based Malawian born humanitarian campaigner who helps thousands of orphans in Malawi through charity Friends of Mulanje (Fomo), Mary Woodworth, has expressed her happiness for ascendancy to presidency of Joyce Banda, saying she can now travel to the country without fear of persecution. Her Excellency Banda, 62, became the country’s first female leader on […]
Friends of Mulanje (Fomo) grabbed this year’s prestigious Presidential Cup in the Mulanje zone after beating Lujeri FC 2-1 in the finals on n 1st April at Mulanje Park. The finals which attracted thousands of spectators was also attended by some government officials including Information Minister Patricia Kaliati and parliamentarian Rick Muheya. FOMO, which looks […]
Blantyre-based legal practitioner Patrick Mpaka was on Thursday evening last week ambushed by unknown assailants who set alight his vehicle near his house next to Leader of Opposition’s and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo’s residence in the suburban Nyambadwe Township in the commercial capital, Blantyre. Mpaka, who is a senior partner at Destone […]
The case of British charity volunteer Mary Woodworth, 46, who runs the Friends of Mulanje Orphans (FOMO) in Malawi took a dramatic twist on Wednesday when her legal team discovered she was being prosecuted on a case which was discharged in 2010. Woodworth was arrested last year after being accused of a string of offences […]