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Malawi govt says no propaganda in murder of anti-graft boss: ACB says Njauju was not connected to any investigations

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi government has said the public should refrain from making “wild speculations” into the brutal murder of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate services Issa Njauju whose body was discovered half-buried on Saturday in the capital Lilongwe. Minister of Information, Kondwani Nankhumwa, said government condemns the “brutal and cowardly murder” of Njauju who at the time of […]

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Malawi anti-graft official killed in ‘savage and brutal attack’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB ) director of corporate services Issa Njauju whose body was discovered half-buried on Saturday in the capital Lilongwew as the victim of a “savage and brutal attack”, Malawi police have said. Njauju’s Toyota D4D vehicle was found burnt to ashes at Kauma in Lilongwe . His body indicated some two gunshot wounds […]

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Ali Kaka pleads ‘not guilty’ to muder of 20 year-old Dave Kadzuwa

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Businessperson Ali Kaka Chinemba has denied the murder charge in which he is accused of killing 20 year-old Davie Kadzuwa Banda  with a pump gun in Manja Township, Blantyre last year. Ali Kaka,35, appeared before High Court judge Dorothy Nyakaunda-Kamanga and entered a plea of “not guilty.” The losing contestant in the Blantyre City South […]

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Couple murder own daughter: ‘She was source of family wrangles’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Police in Dedza is keeping in custody wife and husband for murdering own daughter, saying the child was source of endless family wrangles. This incident occurs at a time when cases of murder, child dumping and abortion are at the increase in the country which infringes on the right to life as stipulated in chapter […]

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Walter calls fan’s death a murder as Malawi FA seek justice: Pictorial

By Nyasa Times Reporter

There were emotional tributes at College of Medicine in Blantyre on Friday when the body of late soccer fan Geoffrey Mwale who died in the wee hours of the day, was being taken to his home village Chiwengo in the area of Traditional Authority Chilowamatambe in Kasungu where he will be buried on Sunday. Mwale, […]

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Father to sue Malawi army over son’s wrongful death: Football fan’s burial Sunday in Kasungu

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Police senior superintendent Stanley Mwale , father of the late soccer fan Geoffrey Mwale who died in the wee hours of Friday in Blantyre says he will file a wrongful-death lawsuit agaist Malawi Defence Force (MDF) for for the death of his son over football violence. Mwale, who has been lying unconscious at Queen Elizabeth […]

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Kaliati fury with brutal death of Lilongwe woman: Hubby killed her for delaying to open door for him

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati, has described as shocking and uncalled for the death of 34-year-old Lilongwe woman, Christina Rodwell, who was allegedly killed by her husband for delaying to open door for him. Rodwell died at the hands of her husband, Rodwell Mtifunsire, at Matawale Village, Traditional Authority Mtema […]

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Mother kills baby, dumps her 5 children into deep well: Malawi Police launches hunt

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Police in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba have mounted a hunt for a 31-year -old woman identified as Mary Moyo who is alleged to have killed her six-months-old baby by dumping him together with his four brothers in a deep well to die there. Mzimba Police Public Relations Officer, Constable Gabriel Chiwona says the woman, […]

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Mchinji again! Another woman murdered: Belief in witchcraft runs deep in Malawi

By Nyasa Times Reporter

As Malawi is still remembering a teen girl who was brutally murdered by her cousin and had her private parts removed in Mchinji, police in the central region border district with Zambia are now hunting for Gift Mayibegi suspected of killing his fiancé on the night of Sunday the 3rd May 2015. Mchinji police spokesman […]

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I killed my sister, witchdoctor told me to remove her private parts to get rich… suspect tells Malawi Police

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi Police has arrested a man suspected to have brutally murdered his sister Janet Chitedze and had her private parts removed at Shadreck Village, in the areas of Traditional Authority Mkanda in Mchinji. According to the Mchinji Police Public Relations Officer sergeant Moses Kajawa Nyirenda, the suspect Selemani Medson aged 21, was arrested between Namitete […]

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Malawi gang hack man to death, extract brain

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi Police in southern district of Phalombe hunting for unknown assailants who hacked a 20 year old man to death and extracted the brain from the skull. The deceased, identified as Sani Aubi, from Khanaja village Traditional Authority (T/A) Mkhumba in the district, met his fate Monday night. According to Aubi’s grandfather, 66 year-old Jonathan Masulani 66, […]

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Prison boss charged with murder after shooting sons

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Deputy senior station officer in charge of Chichiri Prison senior superintendent Evance Kataira Chisi has been charged with the murder  for shooting his two sons Stafford Chisi aged 23 and Russell Chisi aged 29 on Friday. Southern Region Police Spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa said Police has launched an investigation but they have pressed murder charge. “Chisi […]

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Malawi prison boss shoots dead two sons, arrested: 5 nabbed for cop’s murder

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi Police in Blantyre are keeping in custody deputy senior station officer in charge of Chichiri Prison senior superintendent Evance Kataira Chisi for shooting his two sons Stafford Chisi aged 23 and Russell Chisi aged 29 in the early hours of Friday at his home in Blantyre’s low-density Sunny Side suburb after a family quarrel. […]

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