A Tanzanian district commissioner snubbed an invitation for a new year bash from Malawi, a show of sinking relationship between the two countries. Chitipa district commissioner Grace Zione Chirwa told officials in her office, traditional leaders and Zambian invited guests that she had invited the district commissioner from Ilenje in Tanzania and his officials but […]
Two senior immigration officials were in the country on Friday to inquire on eight arrested country men suspected to have been spying on Kayelekera Uranium mine in Karonga. Songwe border incharge Yusuf Shaibu said the Tanzanian deputy immigration officer Daniel Magwaza and his assistant John Njirakiza held discussions with Malawi security agents from Karonga at […]
Malawi Police in Karonga say they are probing reports that eight Tanzanians found loitering around Kayelekera Uranium mine were spying on suspected Malawi’s nuclear manufacturing. Karonga police deputy spokesperson George Murewa said the eight suspects are in full remand at Mzuzu prison. “We are investigating them on several issues including the nuclear issue,” he said. […]
Tanzania government is alleged to have deployed eight spies to Malawi to investigate if the country is developing nuclear weapons from uranium at Kayerekera mine site in Karonga district. The allegation comes after the arrest of eight Tanzanian nationals near the second gate of Kayerekera mine site on Wednesday last week. According to Security sources , […]
Malawi Police in northern border district of Karonga on Wednesday arrested 8 Tanzanian nationals for entering the country without travelling documents who were heading to Kayerekera Uranium mine site. Confirming the development to Nyasa Times, Karonga police deputy spokesperson George Mlewa said the arrest comes after a tip-off from some residents. He said the group […]
Malawi has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tanzania government on Songwe River Basin Development Programme (SRBD). The Songwe River defines the boundary between Malawi and Tanzania before it runs into Lake Malawi. For many years now, the Songwe, which defines the border between Malawi and Tanzania, has been associated with a boundary predicament between […]
Malawi has formally protested to the international community including United Nations (UN), government has confirmed. The border of Lake Malawi , which is potentially rich in oil and gas, is a subject of conflict between Malawi and ith Tanzania . Malawi disputes Tanzania’s claim to half the lake – Africa’s third biggest. Tanzania is promoting […]
Malawians living without right of abode in Tanzanians continue facing tough life, officials have revealed. Songwe border post immigration spokesperson Yusuf Shaib told Nyasa Times that the Tanzanian immigration department has arrested over two hundred Malawians over the weekend. Shaibu said the concerned Malawians have reported to his office that they are being tortured while […]
A group of angry Malawians on Saturday 26 November 2016 ganged up in Nkhatabay where they launched a crackdown on undocumented immigrants in what reports indicates it is a retariation to the arrest of about 250 of which many of them hails from the district. The exercise saw two people a Tanzanian and a Mozambican […]
About 250 Malawians were last Friday arrested and kept in Police custody on various charges mainly illegal entry and overstaying in Tanzania. Songwe Border Post Public Relations Officer Yusuf Shaibu confirmed the development in an interview with Zodiak, a private broadcaster in Malawi on Thursday. Shaibu told the radio that the Malawians have already appeared before […]
As the fight over Lake Malawi between Lilongwe and Dar es Salaam rages on, one of the country’s law experts Edge Kanyongolo has advised Malawian authorities to stay put and not to be moved by the new map being promoted by Tanzania, which shows the north-east part of the lake as belonging to her territory. […]
The Chitipa magistrate court has sentenced a Tanzanian woman to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for trafficking four children to her country. Her Malawian masterminder Daniel Simfukwe has been jailed for seven years on the offence. Police prosecutor Reynard Chabwera told the court that Piri Mwamphasi, the convicted Tanzanian child trafficker even camped in […]
Government says it has asked the Tanzanian government to facilitate the meeting of President Peter Mutharika and President John Pombe Magufuli on the sidelines of the UN meeting in New York to discuss the Lake Malawi issue which has further soured the relationship between the two countries. Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Francis Katsaira […]
Malawi needs to be proactive and not just reactive on the Lake Malawi boundary wrangle with its north-eastern neighbour, Tanzania. But while I am on this, let me warn that resorting to wresting the part of the lake Tanzania claims is its territory will only worsen the matter. To be brutally frank, and without underrating […]
Malawi government has informed all controlling officers to be on alert following a “propaganda” by the government of Tanzania to promote a new map showing that the east African country owns part of the Lake Malawi. Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa has advised the officials to disregard the “half truth”s by Tanzania by rejecting use of […]
Tanzania on Tuesday dispatched three boats with 15 rescuers on board in a bid to find bodies of 11 people feared to have died on Lake Malawi, 50 kilometres away from Nkhata Bay Port on Sunday. Tanzania High Commissioner to Malawi Victoria Mwangaseke and Nkhata Bay police officer in charge Gedion Nahumu were at Nkhata […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has maintained his position that the entire Lake Malawi, Tanzania calls Lake Nyasa, which is potentially rich in oil and gas is owned by Malawi, but has made concessions from his earlier declaration that there is no need to negotiate the issue but telling parliament on Friday that the two countries […]
Malawi Police in Karonga the northern part of Malawi on Friday confiscated a 40 horse power Tanzanian engine boat which was illegally transporting assorted goods from the country to the neighbouring Tanzania and arrested 16 people. Confirming the development, Karonga Police Station Officer Roderick Mpeta said the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday […]