Month: September 2021 Posts

Rumphi West MP, DC fight over CDF

Sep 27, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

…DC calls MP a disgrace Member of Parliament (MP) for Rumphi West Yona Adada Wiza Mkandawire and Rumphi District Commissioner (DC) have clashed over claims that Rumphi District Council has been misusing Constituency Development Fund… ...

Minister wants Chakwera to intervene in land dispute  

Sep 14, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Minister of Lands, Kezzie Msukwa, wants President Lazarus Chakwera’s intervention in a dispute over Nkhozo Estate in Rumphi which Africa Invest wants to sell but communities say should be given back to them. The 2500… ...

Thugs storm exam centre in Rumphi

Sep 08, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Robbers have stolen various items at a Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) exam centre in Rumphi this morning. The thugs stormed Chikwawa CDSS in Rumphi at around 5am today. Chikwawa CDSS Headteacher MacMillan… ...

Messenger sentenced to 18 months in prison over Rumphi office fire

Sep 03, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

A court in Rumphi has sentenced a 34-year-old messenger to 18 months in prison over the fire that destroyed Rumphi Education office last month. The messenger Vitumbiko Khowani Manda, 34, was sentenced on Wednesday, September… ...

29 Ethiopians arrested for illegal entry

Aug 30, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

Police in Mzimba have arrested 29 Ethiopian nationals for entering Malawi illegally. The group of Ethiopians was intercepted on August 28, 2021, at Raiply in the district. Mzimba Police deputy publicist, John Nyirongo a Malawian… ...

Covid deaths attributed to witchcraft in some villages; doctors call for increased awareness

Aug 29, 2021 Thula Chisamba 0 &

When Alfred Chawinga, a 60-year-old man in Rumphi, died of a respiratory complication which medical records show to be Coronavirus, his relatives sought the real cause of what they believed to have been an untimely… ...

Phoka sing’anga discovers miracle charm against abortion

Aug 20, 2021 Thula Chisamba 0 &

Whilst dust refuses to settle on the issue of abortion legalisation in Malawi, a traditional doctor at Phoka in Rumphi claims to have discovered a miracle charm that fights against any form of terminating pregnancy.… ...