Inkosi Ya Makhosi M'mbelwa V (born 2 June 1979) is the reigning[1] King of the Ngoni and Tumbuka people in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania.
[2] M'mbelwa V is the fifth surviving son of the great-grandfather King Zwangendaba Jele and Queen Munene of the Nzima clan of present-day Eswatini.
[3] M'mbelwa V inherited his father's kingdom when he passed away in February 2013 at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Malawi's commercial city, Blantyre, where he was diagnosed with diabetes attack and hypertension.
[8][10] He is married to Inkosikazi M'mbelwa V.[11][12][13] During COVID-19 in 2020, he instructed the government to avoid mass gatherings of people.
This was due to tension that rose from other group of people known as the Friends of Mabilabo who wanted to have another Ngoni paramount chief within the district.