UTM withdraws from Lilongwe by-elections over rotten Malawi Electoral Commission
UTM Party has withdrawn its participation from by-the November 5 by-elections as the party presses for the resignation of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and other...
View ArticleCourt dismisses PP’s Mhone application on poll case costs
The High Court in Mzuzu has dismissed an application by a losing candidate in Nkhata Bay central parliamentary race for an order of stay against payment of elections case for Lands minister Symon Vuwa...
View ArticleAnti-Jane Ansah protestor shot by police undergoes surgery
An anti-Jane Ansah protester who was shot by police on September 1 during demonstrations in Lilongwe is undergoing a second surgery on Friday. This was learnt when Human Rights Defenders Coalition...
View ArticleMalawi Law Society says committed to election case
Malawi Law Society (MLS) says it is still committed to the election case which it joined as friends of the court despite its lawyers missing some of the hearings. Secretary for MLS Martha Kaukonde said...
View ArticleOmbudsman to probe councils over financial mismanagement
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma says her office will investigate all councils red flagged for financial mismanagement and abuse of office. Describing the exercise as complex, Chizuma said money which was...
View ArticleCourt allows MCP witness new document in Malawi poll case: Source to remain...
The Constitutional Court in Lilongwe has allowed witness for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, Richard Chapweteka, to file new document on electoral materials packing...
View ArticleUTM official defects to DPP: Chimbanga nomadic politics continues
UTM Party deputy publicity secretary Leonard Chimbanga has defected to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chimbanga made the announcement at a political rally President Peter Mutharika held...
View ArticleCourt convicts village leader of corruption over Millennium Challenge Account
Balaka magistrates’ court has sentenced a village leader to two years imprisonment with hard labour for illegally soliciting K1.7 million on the pretext that the money was for an electrification...
View Article‘Basop!’ Mutharika warns protest organisers over Malawi anarchy, lawlessness
President Peter Mutharika has warned he will severely deal with anti-Jane Ansah protest organisers whom he blamed for the anarchy and lawlessness rocking the country. Mutharika said this in Chiradzulu...
View ArticleLazarus Chigwandali in his dream secure home thanks to his music talent
Team Lazarus, a management team for Malawi musician with albinism, Lazarus Chigwandali, has finally bought a secure home for the artist and his family which cost K19 million. The money for the...
View ArticleUTM veep Usi visits flood hit families
UTM Party vice president Michael Usi this week took time off from his schedule to visit people in Zomba Ntonya constituency who were hit by floods this year. Usi actually conducted village to village...
View ArticleProtests brew in Karonga, Mponela: Calm returns at Nchalo
Malawi Police have managed to return peace at Nchalo in Chikwawa which was on Friday evening hit by a wave of protests and violence but there is still tension in the area. An irate mob damaged houses...
View ArticleMuslim gear Hijab causes stir during Maneb ID photo shoot at school
Female standard 8 Muslim pupils on Friday caused stir at St. Augustine 3 primary school when they refused to take off an Islamic gear during photo shooting for Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb)...
View ArticleVuwa demands K40m from Mhone on legal costs
Lands minister Symon Vuwa Kaunda is demanding K40 million from People’s Party vice president Ralph Mhone as legal costs over the parliamentary court case. Mhone has appealed against a High Court ruling...
View ArticleNo peace in Malawi: Nkhata Bay violence erupts again after Vice-President visit
Malawi Police were called at midnight on Friday when villagers of Msakanene and Nkombezi clashed again over the death of a businessman. Nkhata Bay police station officer-in-charge Mike Chona said the...
View ArticleSeodi refuses to condemn, shed tears for Nsundwe sex exploitation
Chairperson of the Forum for Concerned Women, Seodi White, has refused to condemn the police who allegedly raped women at Nsundwe in Lilongwe, saying she can only do so after a police inquiry has...
View ArticleCourt sets Malawi poll case ruling in 2020: 45 days after December 6 2019
The ruling of the high profile petition case seeking nullification of presidential elections results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections will be delivered 45 days after the Constitutional Court...
View ArticleDubious car sale leads to murder discovery
Malawi Police in Lilongwe are investigating a murder of a woman which was discovered on Friday after a man was selling her vehicle in suspicious way. According to information Nyasa Times has seen, in...
View ArticleFears of unrest as Malawi’s civil disobedience movement plan fresh protests
A new movement has emerged underground to lead a series of mass demonstration and civil disobedience in a bid to force the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairwoman Jane Ansah. The...
View ArticleChanco students threaten demonstrations to enforce disability rights
Students from the Chancellor College (Chanco) a constituent college of the University of Malawi have fired a warning shot that they will adopt ‘the HRDC way’ of demonstrations coupled with court...
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