Month: November 2017 Posts

Police seek help finding child’s relations

Nov 09, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 34 &

Police in Mzuzu have asked for help in finding parents or relations of a four-year-old child who was involved in an accident in the city. The child told police that his name is Jomo Chirwa… ...

Malawi’s abandoned child brides pushed into sex work

Nov 08, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 18 &

Child brides in Malawi are increasingly being pushed into prostitution as growing numbers of early marriages break down, NGOs working with children have claimed. Although child marriage is illegal, nearly half of girls in the… ...

Man rapes, impregnates teen

Nov 08, 2017 Bright Malenga 95 &

Kanengo police have arrested a 21-year-old man for raping and impregnating a Standard 6 pupil aged 15. The man has been identified as Leonard Juma, a Burundian national who owns a grocery shop at Area… ...

Man arrested for calling Pastor bloodsucker

Nov 08, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 27 &

The Malawi Police in are keeping in custody a 49 year old man for accusing a Blantyre based pastor who is also his brother-in-law of being a bloodsucker. According to Chikwawa Police Station, Public Relations… ...

K120,000 for minibus drivers who carried four passengers per seat

Nov 07, 2017 Bright Malenga 74 &

The Nanyumbu Second Grade Magistrate Court in Machinga district has ordered four minibus drivers to pay a fine of K120,000 each. The four are Andrew Daudi, 33, Felix Ofesi, 25, Rajab Tambala aged 33 and… ...

Two sentenced to 9 yrs for robbing a police officer

Nov 07, 2017 Martha Chikoti 26 &

Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Limbe sentenced two men to 9 years imprisonment with hard labour for robbing a police officer based at Limbe Police Station. The two are George Size  and Patrick Mteketa both… ...

Man gets 5 years for killing elephant

Nov 07, 2017 Pemphero Malimba 23 &

As cases of poaching animals in protected areas continue to increase in the country, the Ntchisi first grade magistrate court has sentenced a man aged 47 to 5 years imprisonment with hard labour for killing… ...