February 2016

Tay Grin, Gwamba at each other’s throats

Feb 19, 2016 Lyonike Mughogho 21 &

…Diktator takes on Piksy as the battle for supremacy intensifies The battle for a kingpin is heating up between Gwamba, who earlier this year announced his redemption, and Tay Grin. The face-off has been instigated by… ...

UNHCR orders Malawi to grant asylum to Mozambican refugees

Feb 18, 2016 Macmillan Mhone 228 &

The United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has ordered Malawi government to grant asylum to Mozambican refugees. The agency made the call in a statement released on Thursday following pressure from Malawi and Mozambique for… ...

Bullets to ignore bonanzas

Feb 18, 2016 Andrew Cane Chilapondwa 50 &

...we want players to rest Malawi super league champions Nyasa Big Bullets vice general secretary Kelvin Moyo has revealed that his team will not be taking part in bonanzas during the off-season period. The remarks… ...

Green maize sale banned!

Feb 18, 2016 Martha Chikoti 56 &

Blantyre City Council (BCC) has banned the sale of green maize in the city effective Thursday February 18. BCC announced the ban through a press release and said the business of selling fresh, cooked or… ...

Malawians hailed for supporting Mozambican refugees

Feb 18, 2016 Macmillan Mhone 34 &

Humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has hailed Malawians for being generous towards Mozambican refugees who have fled tensions and violence in their country. Speaking on the relations between villagers and refugees at Kapise Village in… ...

Step father nabbed for murdering daughter

Feb 18, 2016 Archangel Nzangaya 157 &

Malawi Police in Chiradzuru district are keeping in custody a 42 year-old man for killing his stepdaughter who had eaten his sugarcane without permission. Chiradzuru police publicist Victoria Chirwa identified the suspect as Mackson Makoka and… ...

UN saddened by Malawi’s poverty ranking

Feb 18, 2016 Luke Bisani 160 &

The United Nations (UN) says it is saddened by Malawi’s poverty ranking and has argued that the country needs to change its strategies on development to achieve global goals. The call follows a Human Development… ...

Mutharika faces wrath of Malawians

Feb 18, 2016 Joseph Dumbula 280 &

A week after President Peter Mutharika issued a decree allowing the exploration of oil on Lake Malawi, Malawians have criticised the president over his decision which they say is tantamount to selling the water resource… ...

Cochrane-Dyet now British High Commissioner to Zambia

Feb 18, 2016 Aubrey Makina 25 &

Former British diplomat to Malawi Fergus Cochrane-Dyet has been appointed High Commissioner to Zambia. Cochrane-Dyet was expelled from Malawi in 2011 following a leaked diplomatic telegram in which he referred to Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika as… ...

Cholera vaccination exercise ‘progressing well’

Feb 18, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 20 &

The ministry of health has expressed satisfaction at the progress of the first phase of the Cholera vaccination exercise being conducted in areas around Lake Chirwa. An official from the ministry Morris M'bang'ombe said they… ...

Police arrest Chinese national over illegal ammunition

Feb 18, 2016 Martha Chikoti 33 &

Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested a 51-year-old Chinese national for being found with an ammunition. Lilongwe Police spokesperson Kingsley Dandaula identified the suspect as Ma Minqin, proprietor of China South Investments Shop situated in… ...

Devotion: Be strong in faith

Feb 18, 2016 Pastor Daniel Walusa 4 &

Rom 4:19-21 KJV* “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not… ...

Central Region Netball League has new sponsor

Feb 18, 2016 Orton Nyirenda 1 &

The Central Region Netball League has secured a 2.5 million Kwacha sponsorship from Women Clinic after running for five years without any sponsor. Lilongwe and Districts Netball League (LDNL) chairperson Charity Malanga confirmed the development… ...

WFP may stop assisting hunger victims in Malawi

Feb 18, 2016 Macmillan Mhone 152 &

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it will suspend food assistance programmes in the country unless it manages to source funds to sustain the operations. In a statement released on Wednesday, the United… ...

Bushiri for President!

Feb 18, 2016 Aubrey Makina 1,282 &

...Malawians urge Prophet to challenge Mutharika A cross section of people in Malawi have urged South African based Malawian controversial prophet Shepherd Bushiri to consider standing for Presidency. The remarks have come following Bushiri's distribution… ...