A 27-year-old Blantyre man is languishing at Chichiri Prison after he ‘unintentionally’ killed his wife of two years last week, police has confirmed. Records at Blantyre Police show that Henderson Limited of Malekwete village, TA Chikumbu in Mulanje district killed his wife, Mercy Amosi, 23, after he beat her with a rod for delaying to […]
Police in Mzimba have sought for spiritual intervention in fighting cases of suicide, murder and sudden deaths cases which are said to be on the increase. The police have since partnered with Mzimba pastors fraternal in trying to find lasting solutions to these vices. Speaking in an interview with Nyasa Times, Mzimba police officer-in charge […]
A Malawian man in his early 20s was shot dead in South Africa at his Zozo hut on Thursday last week in Mnandi suburb, Midrand, Nyasa Times has learnt. The victim is identified as Daimon Kanyinji from Zombe village T/A Kaluluma in Kasungu district. “ It was in the evening around about 8pm when neighbours […]
A second year student at the Natural Resource College in Lilongwe, who was in Police custody in Mzuzu for a few days, died a few hours on Sunday at Mzuzu Central Hospital after Police had brought him for treatment, a family relation told Nyasa Times. When NyasaTimes visited Northern Region Police headquarters where Police top brass […]
Another job well-done for Malawi Police Service. After an intensive man hunt, police at Zalewa Trading Centre in Neno District have arrested two criminals described as dangerous who have been on the run for sometime. Police have named the two “wanted criminals” as Hebert Kazizi and Chimchere Lazaro both from Zalewa area in TA Symon […]
Malawian national has been brutally murdered at his room in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. The victim has been identified as AndersonTheu, 54, whose home village is in Inkosi Kampingo Siwande, Eswazini, Mzimba distrct. Malawians, who spoke to Nyasa Times from South Africa on Monday when they went to view his body at Diepsloot mortuary, said Theu […]
A murdered woman whose remains were found in a luggage bag in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday has been identified as a student from Malawi. Reports on Ireland television RTE and the Irish Times says the victim was a 26-year-old originally from Malawi and had been in Ireland for the last two years According to the reports, […]
Malawi government has formally asked South African authorities to extradite murder suspect Misozi Chanthunya, arrested Tuesday morning in Rustenburg, in the North West Province of South Africa after a year and months on the run. Solicitor General Anthony Kamanga, said Ministry of Justice has since asked South African authorities to dispatch Chanthunya to Malawi to […]
Villagers in Malawi’s border district of Mchinji have killed in an uncannily manner a senior citizen and one of their own after they allegedly caught him stealing maize. Almost certainly, the deceased, 65-year-old Tasiyano Agripa, met his fate due to food deficit. The old man died the most heartrending way after he was stoned until he […]
Malawi Police has said a man, who was working as a tobacco tenant in, has been found in central region district of Mchinji bordering with Zambia brutally murdered with his private parts ripped out. Mchinji police publicist, Moses Nyirenda, identified the murdered man as Harlod Chisale, aged 40, of Chisale village in the area of […]
A man has been stabbed to death by his wife in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota on Tuesday after a domestic row, police said. Nkhunga police publicist, Sergeant Labani Makalani said the incident occurred early morning on Tuesday December 27 in the area of Senior Chief Kanyenda. Makalani said Aubrey Malikebu believed to be in his 30’s had […]
A 30-year-old Malawian Gift Kasenda has died in South Africa after his girlfriend allegedly plunged a knife into his body over a quarrel. Theresa Simon is accused of stabbing Kasenda, causing him to bleed to death. South African Police said they were investigating the matter. But close friends to Kasenda and Simon, told Nyasa Times […]
The decomposed body of a man was found in a Limbe river in Blantyre and police are treating the death as suspicious. Pangani Chibaba, who was working as a security guard at DG neighbourhood, was found dead and his decomposed body lying in the river on Friday October28. He was coming from the populous Bangwe […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Grief engulfed the family of the Chimwenje and surrounding residents in central Malawi district of Dedza after their 11-year-old boy who went missing some four weeks ago was found dead but without his private parts, tongue and eyes. The 11-year-old boy went missing on 19th July and according to his […]
By Judith Moyo, Nyasa Times A network of Malawian non-governmental organisations called NGO Coalition on Child Rights has called for speedy investigations to bring to book suspects who are behind the brutal murder of two young girls in Mzimba. According to Police, a seven-year-old girl was last Friday defiled and murdered by unknown people at […]
By Felie Mzumara, Nyasa Times Police in Mzimba have arrested a 21-year-old woman in Mzimba for killing her newly born child with a hoe handle. Northern Region Police Spokesperson Nora Chimwala said the suspected woman Mary Mvula hit her child immediately after giving birth at home. “She is suspected of killing her newly born child […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes The High Court sitting in Karonga acquitted 18 murder suspects because the state either did not offer evidence or the evidence provided failed to establish a prima facie case against the accused. In one such case where Muchinga Kilende and nine others were accused of causing the death of Matthias Simkonda […]