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Bloodsucking is but just a myth: Police strongly warn vigilantes against mob justice

April 11, 2020

Malawi News Agency Police in Mchinji District have said the blood sucking myth making rounds in the district still remains an allegation, following its extensive investigation to determine if indeed anyone had ever fallen victim to such claims. A press release made available Saturday, Mchinji Police Station public relations officer (PRO) Kondwani Kandiado said they are still investigating the issue and lamented cases of innocent people in the district being tortured and wounded on the pretext that they are…

Kuyokwa and 183 others petition High Court to declare all MPs deemed as not duly elected

April 11, 2020

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Maravi Express Frank Kuyokwa and 183 others have taken Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to the High Court demanding all Members of Parliament elected during the May 2019 tripartite elections be deemed not to have been duly elected. The application also demands that all seats of the Legislators in the Malawi Parliament be declared vacant and that the fresh presidential elections ordered to be conducted by the High Court of Malawi sitting as a Constitutional Court be conducted concurrently with…

Former Cameroon star Sampson Che denies claims Schafer shaped Eto’o

April 11, 2020

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By Angu Lesley, kick442 Former Cameroon international Sampson Che has expressed his disapproval of the comments made by German coach, Winfried Schafer about the career of Cameroon football legend Samuel Etoo Fils. The 70-year-old German managed the Indomitable between 2001-2004, winning the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) crown in style in 2002 and guided Cameroon to the final of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. Schafer arrived in Cameroon in November 2001 as replacement for Pierre LeChantre, who had claimed…

Yaya Toure picks Eto’o ahead of Drogba in his all time best 5

April 11, 2020

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By Muambo Edward, kick442.com Speaking to fans on FIFA’s social media account, former Côte d’Ivoire international midfielder Yaya Toure named his best five teammates of all times and his compatriot Didier Drogba is not among them. Toure, who spent three years at the Camp Nou, from 2007 to 2010 after joining Barcelona from AS Monaco, when asked by one of the fans to name the best five players he has shared a team with, the Ivorian named five of…

FIFA president Infantino ready to help clubs in financial difficulties

April 11, 2020

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By Muambo Edward & Angu Lesley, kick442.com World football governing body’s president Gianni Infantino has opened the door for some financial assistance to clubs heavily affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, Speaking in an interview to UOL Esporte, in Brazil, the FIFA boss promised that a fund will be launched that will come to the assistance of clubs that will be badly hit financially as a result of suspension of games due to the Coronavirus pandemic. “We are currently doing…

African community targeted in China virus crackdown

April 11, 2020

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24matins.uk Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals and virus prevention officials. Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least…

Reserve Bank announces additional measures with regard to preventing the spread of the Coronavirus

April 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has announced additional measures in response to some of the directives made by President Peter Mutharika on April 4, with regard to preventing the spread of the Coronavirus and mitigating the effects thereof. RBM, which is the Registrar of Financial Institutions, has agreed with the Bankers Association of Malawi (BAM) that the commercial banks: (i) Immediately provide a three-month moratorium on interest and principal repayments for loans by borrowers; (ii) Restructure and refinance or…

A Forex Bureau teller at the centre of exposing wrong person as one of COVID-19 Blantyre case

April 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira A message and an accompanying voice note have gone viral on social media, whose source is from a Forex Bureau teller, that identifies a business lady in Lunzu as being one of the three that the Minister of Health & Population Jappie Mhango announced on Tuesday as being new confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19). But the business lady (name withheld) says this is just a matter of mistaken identity and that the message has put her…

High Court rejects MEC’s application for suspension of February 3 judgement

April 10, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira The High Court of Malawi has asked the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to apply, is it so wishes, to the Supreme Court of Appeal the application it made asking for the directions on further compliance, variation or suspension of operations of the February 3 Constitutional Court judgement that ordered that fresh presidential elections be conducted. MEC submitted that Section 11(b) of the Courts Act provides that “without prejudice to any jurisdiction conferred on it by any…

Zomba City Council opts not to close bars and clubs

April 9, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira While Lilongwe City Council extended social gathering measures by issuing a temporary ban on all drinking joints with effective from Wednesday, April 8, Zomba City Council has opted not to close the bars and clubs but instead operators to strictly observe all relevant preventive measures within their premises. A communique from the City’s Mayor Benson Bulla and Chief Executive Officer Charles Thombozi, just urges the bar operators to observe the preventive measures one way of…