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‘Lustful’ teenager rapes a 9-year old girl in Nkhotakota

Oct 10, 2015 51

Malawi Police in Nkhotakota district are keeping in custody a boy aged 17 for sexually assaulting a nine year old girl. Nkhotakota police spokesperson Williams Kaponda said the suspect is a form one student at… ...

Nobody will die of hunger –Mutharika

Oct 09, 2015 31

President Peter Mutharika has assured Malawians that no citizen will die of hunger this year. Speaking during a press briefing at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe today, the Malawi leader said the government will only manage… ...

Graveyard trespassing lands four men in custody

Oct 08, 2015 27

Four Malawian men are in police in custody for trespassing into a graveyard where they were exhuming bones of dead person who lived with albinism, police officials in Kasungu district say. Police identified the suspects… ...

Illegal chemicals causing huge loss of crops

Oct 05, 2015 5

Malawi's Pesticides Control Board (PCB) has admitted that it is unable to meet its standard mandate on controlling pesticides use in this country. Speaking to the local media a few weeks ago, Acting Director for… ...

Strange disease hits Chiradzulu

Oct 01, 2015 18

Malawi health experts at Chiradzulu District hospital have expressed fears over an outbreak of unidentified skin disease which is fast spreading among primary school pupils in the district. The strange disease is reportedly attacking primary… ...

Malawi likely to have good rains-experts

Sep 29, 2015 36

The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services has said that Malawi will receive good rainfall this year starting next month. Spokesperson for the department Elina Kululanga, attending a general conference on climate change in… ...

Man dies after beer drinking competition

Sep 25, 2015 256

A Malawian man has been pronounced dead on what was supposed to be a mere alcohol drinking competition among imbibers at a makeshift shabeen outside Wenela bus depot in Blantyre. Police have confirmed and identified… ...