Rumphi District Council says it intends to ban sale of certain food items and close down filthy drinking joints to prevent cholera outbreak. Rumphi District Council’s Director of Planning and Development, Frank Mkandawire said in an interview Thursday that the Council is prepared to help the district’s health office to prevent the disease that has […]
Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of Rumphi has said he has forgiven President Peter Mutharika on the fracas on September 30 2016 when members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) wreaked havoc at the Gonapamuhanya ceremony and accepted to lead a delegation of Rumphi chiefs to visit State House. During the Gonapamuhanya ceremony, where the Tumbuka […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Rumphi North Constituency Jappie Mhango and Attorney General Charles Mhango, have donated a K12 million cold room to Rumphi District Hospital mortuary. Speaking Saturday during the handover ceremony of the facility Acting Director of Health and Social Services at Rumphi District Health Office Dr Stephen Macheso described the donation as […]
State Vice-President Saulos Chilima Friday advised councils in the country to ensure that all construction projects for public structures like schools, markets and hospitals are granted to reputable contractors who produce good work. Speaking when he visited Phwezi and Mzokoto trading centres in Rumphi District which were hit by floods and stormy winds last month, […]
The first grade magistrate court in Rumphi has sentenced a 24 year old man to 18 months imprisonment with hard labor for selling Indian Hemp to secondary school going students.gemp The court heard that the convict, Alinuswe Simwera used to sit along Mawelere stream evry morning where he could sell twists of Chamba. Rumphi Police […]
Rumphi Women Forum (RWF) has expressed disappointment over conditions girl children endure to access education saying they contribute to school dropout rate increase. RWF is a non-governmental organization which advocates for girl child and women rights in Rumphi District. RWF Deputy Executive Director, Chiza Gondwe said Wednesday at Bolero when it donated 60 desks to […]
An 18-year-old-boy has killed himself by hanging after caught red handed having sex with her a second wife of her grandfather in Rumphi district north of Malawi. Information gathered by Nyasa Times show that Nebert Mwandila of Zunguzungu village T/A Chikulamayembe was caught having sex with his 32 year old grandmother Catherine Gondwe but immediately left […]
Angry villagers at Phwezi in Rumphi district on Wednesday burnt a minibus, Toyota Hiace registration number LL 7949 and severely injured the driver after he was involved in a road accident killing a 9 year old boy. According to a report by Rumphi police station, the said vehicle was going to Karonga from Mzuzu. However, […]
Rumphi First Grade Magistrate’s Court has sentenced CCAP Synod of Livingstonia cleric Reverend Chiwawa Banda to 14 years imprisonment for defiling a 13- year-old girl (name shielded for legal reasons.) last year. The girl claimed the 42-year-old Reverend Banda of Chiswamapira Village Traditional Authority Kabunduli in Nkhatabay but based at Luzi in Rumphi, sexually assaulted her […]
Rumphi First Grade Magistrate Court Monday sentenced a 22–year-old primary school teacher to 12 years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) for indulging in sexual activity with a nine-year-old girl. Police Prosecutor Inspector Michael Paulino told the court that Christopher Mwansambo defiled the lass on the night of March 18, 2017 at Kanakulera Village, when she […]
Malawi Police in Rumphi District have arrested three people for possessing counterfeit money in K2000 bank notes amounting to over K1 million. Rumphi Police spokesperson Victor Khamisi confirmed the arrest in an interview, saying the suspects were picked from different locations around Rumphi Trading Centre. He said police got wind of the incident after a […]
Malawi Police have confirmed that unknown criminals tampered with the grave of an elderly woman with albinism who was buried over 13 years ago in Rumphi District with an aim to exhume the body. Rumphi Police Station spokesman Victor Khamisi said the woman, Norwin Nkhonjera, died on January 10 2004 at Mbulunji in the district. […]
Northern region district of Rumphi has produced two top positions in the President Peter Mutharika’s new Cabinet. Rumphi North Constituency MP, Jappie Mahngo has been maintained as Transport and Public Works in the Cabinet shake up released by the office of the Secretary to the Government Monday afternoon. Mhango is also ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
The owner of the boat that recently capsized at Mlowe in Rumphi, killing six people after Easter appeared before Nkhata Bay First Grade Magistrate Court Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty to the charge of sending unseaworthy vessel on Lake Malawi. The court heard that on April 16, 2017 at new Salawe (northern part of […]
Death toll in the Easter Sunday Rumphi Boat Tragedy has officially risen to six following the discovery of a body one of the victims early Friday, whom Rumphi Police confirmed was missing. Rumphi Police Officer-In-Charge, Denis Banda said the body which was in serious state of decomposition was discovered by some Fishermen 100 metres away […]
Communities, who took part in the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) 4 in road maintenance under Public Works Programme in February, 2017 in Rumphi, have protested over the council’s failure to pay their wages. The beneficiaries from Ng’onga in the area of Sub Traditional Authority Chisovya in the district told Malawi News Agency (MANA) Friday […]
Bodies of people killed in the Rumphi boat accident have been taken to Mzuzu Hospital morgue because a mortuary at Rumphi Hospital has not been operatioal since 2014. Rumphi Hospital spokesperson Bwanaloli Mwamulimwa has said the mortuary at the facility needs an overhaul and a lot of money to maintain it. He said in addition, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera, who is also leader of opposition, has backed Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), whose members were the major victims of the Easter Sunday Rumphi boat tragedy, for declaring the Mlowe incident the ‘Church National Disaster’. Synod general secretary the Reverend Levi Nyondo said the declaration […]