Month: October 2020 Posts

Son gets 2-year jail term for assaulting his mother

Oct 24, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Synd Kalimbuka Zomba Senior Resident Magistrate Court has sentenced 36-year-old Limbani Banda to 2 years in prison with hard labour for assaulting his own mother. Sub Inspector Evelyn Ntenje, a  prosecutor at Zomba Police… ...

Elderly woman stoned to death in Dedza

Oct 19, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

An elderly woman has been stoned to death over witchcraft allegations in Dedza. The woman was killed by members of her own community on Sunday at Fumbwa village, T/A Tambala. Commenting on the issue on… ...

Man beats woman for rejecting love proposal

Oct 13, 2020 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Police at Chileka in Blantyre are keeping in custody a 22-year-old man for beating a 27-year-old woman after she refused to be his girlfriend. According to Chileka police public relations officer Sargent Peter Mchiza, the… ...

Man hacks teacher at school over affair with wife

Sep 12, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

A man who recently returned from South Africa has hacked a deputy headteacher at a school in Dedza over claims that the teacher was in an affair with the man’s wife. Dedza police station deputy… ...

M’busa, Sheikh ayankhulapo pa kuchotsedwa kwa chikwangwani

Aug 18, 2020 Owen Ndalama 1 &

M’busa Wilson wa tchalichi cha Good Samaritan komanso Sheikh Hussen Abdul Kareem wa mzikiti wa Namadzi ku Chiradzulu ayankhulapo pa za kuchotsedwa kwa chikwangwani cha Good Samaritan chomwe chinaikidwa pa malo a mzikiti. Mbusayu Wilson… ...

Group demolishes church signpost

Aug 18, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

A group of men in Chiradzulu has damaged a signpost for Namadzi Good Samaritan Baptist Church, saying the signpost was built on land belonging to a Mosque. The signpost was erected on a roadside in… ...

South Africa: Five killed in attack on church

Jul 11, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Five people have been killed following an attack on a church in South Africa today. South African police said the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday and some of the attackers took hostages… ...

Mutharika condemns political violence

May 29, 2020 Aubrey Makina 0 &

State President Peter Mutharika has condemned political violence which has started dominating the political atmosphere as Malawi prepares for polls. In a statement issued by the state house, Mutharika has called upon political parties to… ...

Mutharika tells youth to reject violence

Mar 04, 2020 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

President Peter Mutharika has urged young people in the country to reject violence and has warned politicians against paying youth to carry out violent acts. Mutharika made the remarks during the launch of the K13… ...

Elephant kills woman

Feb 29, 2020 Owen Ndalama 0 &

An angry mob on Friday set ablaze two motor vehicles belonging to African Parks and injured two officers after an elephant suspected to have bolted from the park killed a woman at Bamba village, Sub… ...

Malawi govt. declares Imedi a Martyr: APM administration to construct Msundwe memorial pillar

Feb 28, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 3 &

The DPP Government is set to announce its next bombshell hot on the heels of the DPP-UDF Alliance and abolition of quota system. Sources at the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) confided that… ...

Husband hacks wife over nsima

Feb 20, 2020 Owen Ndalama 0 &

Police in Mulanje are keeping in custody a 43-year-old man for hacking his wife because she did not cook nsima for him as there was no maize flour in their house. The man identified as… ...

Kasungu police nab 24 people over Nkhamenya fracas

Feb 06, 2020 Martha Chikoti 1 &

Police in Kasungu have arrested 24 people over a fracas that erupted at Nkhamenya in connection to the death of a 17-year-old girl whose body was found in Msusu River. The girl in question went… ...

Residents loot Burundians’ shops in Lilongwe

Feb 06, 2020 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

There was a fracas at Area 24 market  in Lilongwe on Wednesday where residents looted shops belonging to Burundian nationals. Motorcycle taxi operators were leading people who were demolishing shops belonging to Burundians around the… ...

HRDC becoming a terrorist group – Mutharika

Jan 01, 2020 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 1 &

President Peter Mutharika says the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) is becoming a terrorist group as its leaders enjoy inflicting terror on innocent Malawians. In his New Year’s address, Mutharika has labeled the HRDC as… ...