After the cabinet crisis in 1964, Kanyama Chiume fled into Eastern Africa. For a larger part of his time in that part of Africa, he was in Tanzania. Until he returned after the declaration of a general amnesty in 1993, Kanyama Chiume was practically a citizen of Tanzania. His familiarity with the political and government...

Pastor Manford Kapyola of the Faith Christian Church has been forced to climb down the pedestal of the pulpit and spend the next four years in jail after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting his nine-year-old granddaughter. Wednesday’s conviction of Kapyola, 50, came after police in Blantyre three weeks ago...

Witnesses began testifying on Monday against former Chief Executive Officer for Lilongwe City Council (LCC) Kelvin M’mangisa, who is being accused of abuse of office. Mmangisa is accused of drawing allowances for a trip to Italy which he did not undertake and collecting allowances outside his contract by demanding...

Child rights NGO, Eye of the Child, has taken Ndirande Police to task over the poor handling of a case in which a 10-year-old boy’s private parts went missing. It is suspected that a mini-bus deliberately run over the boy and some men ripped-off his private parts and later claimed he lost his jewels during the...

High Court in Mzuzu has ordered Mulli Brothers Limited (MBL) to pay Lunyina Haulage K9.4 million (about $28 000) as an outstanding debt, including value added tax (VAT) and interest. Lunyina Haulage, through lawyer Mustafa Amidu, took MBL to court for allegedly failing to pay K5 400 322.86 (about $16 000) after being...

Malawi police at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Wednesday arrested two Chinese nationals for attempting to smuggle foreign currency and ivory as they were about to leave for China. Police Spokesperson Rhoda Manjolo said in total the two had close to 100,000 US dollars cash and about 130, 000 kwacha cash. Mrs....

Eight Suspects among them hardcore criminals have escaped from Kabula police Station in Blantyre after they drilled a hole on the wall. “We can confirm that. They drilled a hole on the wall and escaped,” said Assistant superintendent Nicholas Gondwa, Southern Region Police Spokesperson. He said the law enforcers are...

Interdicted Blantyre principal resident magistrate Mzondi Mvula, who was acquitted by the High Court in May last year on corruption charges, has sued Malawi government for failing to reinstate him. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), according to a source familiar with the matter, stopped Mvula from returning to work...

A Dowa Magistrate court recently acquitted Seleman Jonathan, a 50 year old Rwandan asylum seeker at Dzaleka refugee camp, after he defiled a 10 year old girl (name withheld) on grounds that the girl didn’t feel pain, and that she didn’t complain. The development caused a lot of criticism from many women’s rights...

A 22-year old student of the University of Malawi’s Polytechnic has been sentenced to two years and six months in jail for theft. Henry Banda was caught stealing two laptops worth K250 000 (at least US$714) from girls’ hostels on the 13th of December, according to court records. The first year student comes from...

With Goodall Gondwe now sympathetic to the administration and a member of the cabinet, he has automatically acquired another set of immunity from prosecution for his role in acquisition of fertilizer for the Farm Input Subsidy programme. His imminent prosecution was the main feature of statements emerging from the Ministry...

The hearing of a corruption case involving former Malawi head of state Bakili Muluzi, will continue next year, as his lawyers have been told to present his medical report in six months. This follows the granting of more time to the former head of state by the Blantyre high court on Thursday, to recover before he appears in...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is still waiting for a file from the police to start prosecuting suspects implicated in the murder of the former Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. The file is expected to give a hint as to how much evidence has been unearthed against those to face the law. This...

Former Lilongwe city council-LCC chief executive, Mr. Kelvin M’mangisa returns to court on November 13 to answer charges of abuse of office. The case failed to commence last month after the presiding magistrate then, Chief Resident magistrate Ruth Chinangwa recused herself. Head of prosecution at Malawi police Mr. Happy...

Police in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre have arrested production manager for Optichem Fertilizer Company in connection with the case in which some fertilizer meant for the country’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme – FISP – was found mixed with sand in Mangochi. This brings to seven the number of people...

The High Court in Blantyre has granted bail to Southern Region Governor of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Noel Masangwi and others who are suspected to have played a role in the death of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa last year. The five are Frank Julius, Sam Chulu, and Lewis Ngalande and Petros Phiri and...