Some Muslims who were entrusted with a responsibility to distribute money meant for all people who attended the prize presentation ceremony to the winners in the National Quran Recitation competition on Sunday at Iqraa Propagation Centre (formally Apollo Cinema) in commercial capital Blantyre, abandoned the dictates of their faith and run away with the money leaving those […]
A strong call has gone out to Muslims in Malawi to handsomely contribute towards efforts that aims to uplift the status of Islam in the country. The call from Director of a local Islamic NGO, Al-Baraka Charity Trust, Ibrahim Milanzi, was made on Sunday during the prize presentation ceremony to winners of Quran Recitation Competition held […]
A First Grade Magistrate’s court in Malawi’s northern region border district of Karonga has granted bail to a suspected child trafficker Abdul Mallick Audrey on conditions that he must give the court 100 thousand Malawi kwacha and two traceable witnesses which each should give twenty thousand kwacha. First Grade Magistrate’s Chakaka Nyirenda ruled that the […]
Police in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are keeping in custody two people including the propriety of a primary school for suspected of trafficking 26 Muslim pupils from Estcourse Islamic primarily school in Mangochi to Zanzibar in Tanzania on Saturday. Karonga Police Officer in charge Foster Mangani identified the suspects as Abdul Malick Audrey […]
Minister of Transports and Public Works, Sidik Mia has disclosed that plans to open an Islamic university in the country to promote modern education among Muslims will be rolled out soon with support from Direct AId Society from Kuwait. Mia, who is People’s Party Vice President (South), said this on Saturday when he took Mangochi […]
Reports reaching Nyasa Times indicate that prominent sheikhs in Malawi early last week stormed offices of Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) demanding an immediate withdraw of a fine it imposed on the country’s only Islamic radio station, Radio Islam for unprofessional conduct. Macra had recently slapped Radio Islam with a $625 (about K260, 000) fine for denigrating […]
Malawi Home Affairs Minister,Uladi Mussa, has been asked by his fellow Moslems to drop chanting Islamic slogan La ilaha illa Allah at political rallies of ruling People’s Party. La ilaha illa Allah is an Arabic transliteration which means “there is no god but Allah.” Mussa has been chanting the slogan at political rallies where he […]
A group calling itself “Concerned Muslims” in the predominantly Islamic eastern region lakeshore district of Mango chi has threatened to go into the streets to protest against Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister and Peoples Party senior official Uladi Mussa accusing him of putting their religion into disrepute through his foul-mouthing speeches in various ruling […]
Outspoken official of the ruling People’s Party (PP) Uladi Mussa has asked people in lakeshore eastern region district of Mangochi, considered the political stronghold of United Democratic (UDF), not to associate the UDF with Islam, saying the party is not in any way connected to the religion. Speaking at Lungwena Health Centre in Mangochi district where […]
President Joyce Banda has said she will continue to grace events by grassroots people, saying that is why she is already referred to as the ‘fritters woman’ (mayi wa mandasi) in some quarters. The first citizen was speaking when she graced the stone-laying ceremony at Lungwena Health Centre in Mangochi District, where she said it […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times President Joyce Banda on Friday wished Malawi Muslims well in the occasion of Eid-e-Milad, marking the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad. Malawi Muslims join the rest of the world to mark the day of the birth of Islam leader, Prophet Muhammad –Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH). State House Press Officer […]
Malawi Police said a Muslim Sheikh Majidu Mustafa was beaten to death on Sunday after he was caught stealing cassava in lakeshore district of Salima in the central region. Salima police public relations officer, Gift Chitowe, said on Wednesday that the deceased was a senior Sheikh serving at Chapita Mosque in the area of Traditional […]
In Malawi, some Muslims are complaining that Muslim traders tend to reduce the price of goods for Christmas festivities, but not for Islamic celebrations such as Eid. The traders say this is because Muslims don’t spend as much money on religious holidays. Some Muslims say the difference is not fair, and fails to put Islamic and Christian […]
Muslims in Malawi today (October 26) have joined their counterparts around the world in celebrating Eid al Adha (festival of sacrifice). During the four-day religious holiday which starts with prayers in various mosques Muslims slaughter animals and share it to friends and needy. National Coordinator of the Malawi Islamic Information Bureau, Sheik Dinala Chabulika, says Eid al […]
*Mangochi District in the Southern Malawi, the hub of the Yao belt is often synonymous with fish mongers overpopulation, high illiteracy levels, small-scale business ventures, early marriages and of late selling of (human) blood. A quick mention that ‘one’ come from Mangochi, triggers immediate stereotypes that he (or she) is not ‘highly educated’, but as Nyasa […]
Muslim clerks and sheiks were on Monday disturbed and angry over a symbol of the cross which was printed on the front page of the funeral program of Gogo Chenalikusika, mother to Malawi’s former president, Dr Bakili Muluzi. Gogo Chenalikusika a Muslim passed away in the early hours of Saturday October 13 at the age […]
Officials at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have confirmed that three Muslims women are admitted at the facility after sustaining serious injuries in a bus accident that happened Sunday night at Salima turn off in which 25 were injured. They say the three are among 15 women who were rushed to […]
President Joyce Banda has said the 2012 Women Islamic Conference (Ijtima) being held at Katoto in Mzuzu will avail Muslim women an opportunity to discuss issues that can take Malawi and their faith to another level, saying discussing matters that are of benefit to humanity is paramount. “I would like to appeal to you to […]