The Mangochi First Grade Magistrate's Court on February 21, 2023 convicted and sentenced Richard Lameck, 22 and Friday Dickson, 23, each to 3 months imprisonment with hard labor for requesting to buy a human placenta from a nurse at Malombe Health Centre.

Police in Mangochi district have arrested a 28-year-old Zambian national, Ibrahim Maxwell Mustafa, on suspicion that he has been stealing from various women through Facebook.

Barely days after Mangochi Police Station arrested, Panganani William, 21, for possessing K300, 000 fake banknotes, Fort Maguire Police Unit in the district have also arrested  a Rwandan and a Burundian believed to be master-minders of processing the fake banknotes.

Health authorities in Mangochi district have asked partners to assist them with chlorine and Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) as the district continues to register more cholera cases.

The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) has assured hunger stricken families targeted to benefit from the 2022/23 lean season response in Lulanga and Makanjira in Mangochi district that they will start receiving their provisions from next week.

Police in Mangochi District have arrested a 21 year old man, for ellegedly being found in possession of fake Malawian banknotes amounting to K300 thousand.

As government and its development partners continues to engage more efforts in fighting the Cholera outbreak in the Country, Yamba Malawi, has joined the team with trainings of more health workers to enhance preventive, mitigation and resilient measures in communities.

The Mangochi District Full Council meeting on Tuesday, 14 February, 2023, passed its 2023/24 fiscal year annual budget, pegged at 8.4 billion kwacha.

The Agricultural Commercialisation (AGCOM) Project has now distributed grants amounting to over K1 billion to small business groups in Mangochi alone, according to the district's agriculture office.

In a move to make sure there is peaceful coexistence between communities in Mangochi district, despite differences in affiliations, Centre for Social Concern (CfSC) has launched a 'conflict barometer' to assist in conflict prevention.