Rumphi First Grade Magistrate’s Court HAS sentenced a 45-year-old, Baleke Kayira to five years and six months imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) for illegal possession of six live ammunitions and a portion of eland meat without a permit. The convict was arrested on June 8, 2019 at Gamba area in Chitipa district during a police […]
Hope for Relief (HFR), a Rumphi-based non-governmental organization, is implementing a project whose chief aim is an attempt to increase access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services among inmates in the country’s prisons. HFR programmes manager, Hastings Masida Ziba, told Nyasa Times on Tuesday that, among others, the project, which is being funded by HIVOS of the Netherlands, […]
Three people are confirmed dead whilst two are missing in Rumphi following torrential rains that hit the northern region on Friday night. Chiweta police station officer-in-charge Denis Kululanga has confirmed of the death of the two people and said the police are searching for the missing people. The most hit areas by the heavy rains […]
Rumphi residents along Rumphi-Nyika- Chitipa Road project sites have been asked to guard the development against any form of abuse. The call was made Friday during Health, Safety and Environment whistle stop meetings organized by Rumphi District Council, Police and the contractor, Mota Engil. Social Safety Consultant, Davie Chilonga said upgrading of the road to […]
Two men have been jailed for a total of 14 years each after being convicted of gang-rape by Rumphi First Grade Magistrate Court. The convicts Chimwemwe Chatha, 23, Kel Malonda, 21, were found guilty by the court on Thursday for taking turns in raping an old woman on March 14 2019. The sexual assault happened […]
Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) says the late powerful Tumbuka chief of Rumphi, Chikulamayembe burial will be accorded a full military honours. The paramount chief died on November 29 at Mzuzu Central Hospital and would be interred Tuesday at his headquarters in Chilongozgi village in Bolero, Rumphi. “His Excellency the President, Professor Arthur […]
Fire gutted down Rumphi Secondary School library during the early hours of Sunday destroying books valued at K1.5 million donated by the school’s alumni among other damages, Deputy Head teacher, Edward Luhanga confirmed the development. “Around 2 am, we were awakened by our security people and some teachers who came to inform us that fire […]
A 53-year-old man identified as Zachariah Gondwe was found dead on Tuesday at Kawaza Woodlot in in the area of Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe in Rumphi district. Rumphi Police Station Publicist, Tupeliwe Kabwilo said the deceased was last seen on October 7 2018 at a beer joint. She said Gondwe never returned home and his relatives […]
The Rumphi First Grade Magistrate Court has sentenced 32-year-old Edwin Mutegha to 13 years imprisonment (IHL) for defiling a 14-year old girl with speech impairment. But Mutegha stunned the court when he, in mitigation, pleaded for lenience, saying “it is Satan who cheated me.” First Grade Magistrate Cuthbert Phiri heard, through State prosecutor Blessings Chimbirazowa, […]
A family of 12 people is seeking asylum at a police station in Rumphi after an attack by the community on allegations that the family was practicing witchcraft. A senior police officer at Rumphi police George Kaleso confirmed that the family of Binga Nyasulu from Muyaba village in chief Chiweta’s area in the district has […]
Malawi Police in Rumphi are hunting for unknown people who attempted to exhume the remains of an 11 year old boy at Mlongoti Village, in the area of TA Chikulamayembe in the district. According to the district police spokesperson Tupeliwe Kabwilo, the development occured during the night of Friday and was discovered by passers-by the […]
Police in Rumphi have arrested Edwin Mtegha, 32, for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old mentally- challenged girl. Rumphi Police Station spokesperson Tupeliwe Kabwilo said the suspect was arrested at Kamwe Trading Centre in the district after the grandmother’s victim reported the matter to community police in the area. Kabwilo said the grandmother left the teenager alone […]
Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of Rumphi District says Malawians need to have a sense of humanity when undertaking their duties by desisting from embezzling public funds and indulging in corruption. Chikulamayembe made the sentiments Tuesday when ActionAid Malawi disbursed K10.5 million to 30 Community Based Child Care Centres (CBCCCs) in the district. He said corruption or […]
Hudder Moyo, head of criminal investigations department (CID) in the northern region district of Rumphi, has been implicated in a syndicate in which he demands K300 000 per assignment to aid illegal immigrants into the country. Rumphi is strategically positioned because it has Nyika Plateau on its west and Lake Malawi on its east. A […]
Rumphi First Grade Magistrate Court has sentenced a 34-year- old man to 42 months Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) for torching a Vwaza Wildlife Reserve motorcycle. The court heard that on 5th April, 2017, a community member, Joakim Nkhamba, 35, from Kamalang’ombe Village in Traditional Authority Mpherembe in Mzimba District went missing but was later […]
Former Rumphi East Member of Parliament (MP) Albert Thindwa, died on Saturday in Blantyre and will be buried on Thursday in his home village Rumphi, it has been confirmed. Thindwa was elected on the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) tickets but defected to People’s Party (PP) when it came to power only to return to DPP for […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango and Attorney General, Charles Mhango have donated 100 bags of Cement and two 100 watts solar panels to Rumphi District Hospital. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Regional Governor for the North, Kenneth Sanga presented the donation on behalf of the two Mhangos on Thursday and the said the […]
First Grade Magistrate Court in Rumphi has sentenced a 22 year-old man to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for robbing a Dutch National property worth K8million. The court heard that in December 2014, the suspect, Kingsley Kondowe, shot the proprietor of Chitimba Beach Resort, Eddie Peter, on the chest, severely beat his wife […]