A heavy exchange of gun fire between game rangers and four suspected Zambian poachers in Kasungu National Park left one of the suspects seriously wounded on Saturday night, Police said on Tuesday. Kasungu Police Public Relations Officer, Sub Inspector Edwin Kaunda said the incident occurred at Chivunundu area, a distance of about seven kilometres from […]
Malawi Police in central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu are keeping in custody a 23-year-old Zambian national suspected to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl at Matawale Village in Senior Chief Chulu’s area in the district, Kasungu Police Public Relations Officer Sub Inspector Edwin Kaunda has said. Kaunda identified the suspect as Daniel Mvula of […]
alawi Police Service has arrested five Zambian nationals who had no right of abode in the country and would be deported to Zambia. The Zambian nationals were nabbed a sweeping exercise that was carried out at Nkhamenya Trading Centre on Wednesday night, Police Public Relations Officer Sub Inspector Edwin Kaunda has said. They were amongst […]
Zambia’s sensational female artist, Mampi Mukape, fondly known as Mampi, is expected in Malawi on Friday ahead of her live performances in the capital Lilongwe this weekend. The celebrity R&B singer, Zambia’s representative at the 2012 Big Brother Africa, returns to Malawi after her last visit about three months ago when she performed in Blantyre […]
Malawian President Joyce Banda three-day state visit to has been cancelled, Nyasa Times learnt on Tuesday. President Banda was scheduled to arrive in Lusaka on Tuesday and was expected to attend Zambia’s 48th independence celebrations on Wednesday. But she did not show up at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, where both Zambian government officials and Malawian […]
Malawi has retained the ZIMAZA (Zimbabwe-Malawi-Zambia) trophy for the second year running after emerged overall winners in the games held over the weekend in Kenya. The annual inter-country sports event which started out on bright sunshine day saw Malawians donning red, Zambians green and Zimbabweans in yellow streaming into the campus as early as 9 […]
One of the country’s English theatre groups, Solomonic Peacocks has taken a step further in its quest for theatrical advancement by featuring a former Zambian ex-sex worker, Precious Kawinga in a new play, Seal of Confession. Apart from the play, Kawinga and Solomonic have partnered to work in a project aimed at reforming commercial sex […]
Malawi national netball team, the Queen, has done what needed to be doneClaiming a fairly neat victory over Zambia in the opening match of the Netball Diamond Challenge played in South Africa. The match ended 75 – 32 in favour of Malawi Queens. Inspired by towering Austrian based Mwayi Kumwenda and goal attack Sindi Simtowe […]
Mampi Mukape, Zambian R&B singer, fondly known as Mampi, best known as one of the celebrity housemates in the Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality TV show, is scheduled to perform in Malawi this weekend. Nyasa Times has established that the 26-year-old ‘Queen Diva’ from Lusaka will jet into Malawi on Thursday through Kamuzu International Airport […]
Malawi Police have arrested 36 years old Zambian Febe Moyo for being found in possession of 17 bags of narcotic drugs suspected to be Indian Hemp. The bags containing the cannabis were weighing 50kgs each. Moyo comes from Chipembe village in the area of traditional authority Mpezeni, Chipata district in Zambia. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo […]
Two Malawian nationals have been convicted by a court in Zambia for being illegal immigrants. According to Zambia’s official news agency – Zanis – the Livingstone Magistrate Court convicted the Malawians for unlawful stay in Zambia. Frank Gama Naison, a Basket Maker, entered Zambia from Malawi using Mwami border control for the purpose of doing […]
Malawi’s Head of State Joyce Banda on Tuesday received Letters of Credence from the new Zambian High Commissioner to and the Finnish Ambassador at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre. Speaking after presenting his Letters of Credence, the new Zambian High Commissioner to Malawi, Billy Munyumbwe said he will strive to improve the seemingly strained relations between […]
Malawi national football team, the Flames, scorched reigning African soccer champions, Zambia’s Chipolopolo 1-0 in an international friendly match at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. The match was arranged to commemorate Malawi’s 48th independence anniversary. The Flames scored through evergreen midfielder Joseph ‘Shakira ‘Kamwendo through a thunderous shot. Zambia dominated the first 45 minutes while Flames […]
Malawi Parliament last week blew up a whopping K15 million to enable over 20 MPs to travel to Zambia by road to play social football, netball and chess. The games were played on Saturday. Speaker of Parliament, Henry Chimunthu Banda, pressed National Assembly financial controller Chikondi Kachinjika to make available K15 million for the trip. […]
The Malawian High Court Judge and chief adjudicator at the Commercial court, Justice Lovemore Chikopa, who Zambian President Michael Sata imported into his country to head a three-man tribunal to investigate three judges, will remain in Zambia despite a stay granted by the courts against the proceedings,. Zambian Justice Minister, Sebastian Zulu , said the Malawian […]
Police in Mzimba have arrested 56 year old Zambian woman Hildah Phiri for being found in possession of 6 bags of Indian Hemp each weighing 90kgs. Phiri, comes from Chiundira village in the area of T/A Magodi, Lundazi district. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the arrest in an interview on Monday. Nyirongo said the […]
Management at S&A Farm in Chikwawa district is to embark on cattle cross breeding exercise between Santa Getrudis breeds from Zambia and Malawi Zebu. Managing Director for S&A Farm, Abida Mia says her farm has currently hired the veterinary team to do the tuberculosis (TB) screening and vaccination exercise on the cattle at the farm […]
A Zambian top-notch lawyer says he hopes Zambian judiciary will be richer after Malawian High Court Judge and Commercial court chief adjudicator Lovemore Chikopa and his team concludes his work saying Justice Chikopa’s philosophy of law will assist Zambia in trying to find lasting solutions to the work of judges in the country the Judiciary […]