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The Karonga First Grade Magistrate's Court has on May 23,2022 convicted and sentenced Mesfin Alemu, 20 and thirteen other Ethiopians to serve a five-month jail term for entering Malawi without travel documents contravening Section 21 (1) as read with Section 37 (d) of the Immigration Act.

State Prosecutor,Sergeant Meston Zimba told the court that Police in Karonga district arrested the Fourteen Ethiopian Nationals in Tenenthe hills within Karonga after suspecting them to have entered Malawi illegally on May 20, 2022.

Police in Kawale, Lilongwe are keeping in custody Rose Mbiri, 44 and Zakeyo Sambo, 39 for duping 300 youths alleging that, they will offer them jobs.

The two posed as Secretary and Human Resources Manager (HRM) respectively for a bogus company called "First Plan Investment Promotion Agency".

It is on record that the said company placed an advert in a certain newspaper on May 1, 2022 about a vacancy on data collectors and the same was advertised in different media platforms.

On Friday May 20, 2022, female police officers from all 41 policing stations across the country marched off the ground on a high note after an intensive three-day operation Basadi.

"Basadi" which literally means 'women' in Sotho and Tswana languages is an operation by female police officers across countries in the SADC region and it focuses on combating priority crimes particularly against women and children, such as defilement, rape, assault, human trafficking, domestic violence and child labour among others.

Lingadzi Police detectives have arrested a gang of five criminals connected to a spate of robberies in Area 47, Area 14 Junction and a robbery that happened at Tafika Lodge along BNS drive in the month of April 2022.

Police received complaints from some Lilongwe residents that there are unknown criminals who have been attacking people in their homes and passers by within the City robbing them of various valuable items.

Following recent reports of robbery, theft and breakings in some townships within Blantyre, police officers on April 29, 2022 conducted an intelligence driven operation operation and 70 suspects were arrested in the process at Bvumbwe and Manje townships.

This is an on going operation intending to sanitize areas within Limbe Police Station's jurisdiction, making it free from criminal activities.

Limbe Police is urging citizens of good will to continue giving them information concerning those behind the criminal acts.

The First Grade Magistrate's Court sitting at Dwangwa in Nkhotakota District on Friday, April 22, 2022 sentenced Yesaya Quoto, 24, to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour after he was found guilty of possessing K575,000 counterfeit currency of K5,000 notes at Dwangwa trading centre.

The court heard through police state prosecutor, Sub Inspector Thoko Juziwel that Quoto was found with the said counterfeit currency on March 28, 2022 when he was making mobile money transaction through TNM Mpamba to a certain female mobile money agent at the trading centre.