Over 300 DPP followers defect to UDF in Chiradzulu
Some 300 plus Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) followers from Chiradzulu district have dumped their party and joined fellow opposition United Democratic Front (UDF). The defectors announced their...
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View ArticleSilver, Nomads punishment reduced, game to be replayed
The Super League of Malawi (Sulom) has reduced punishments to Mighty Wanderers and Silver Strikers according to a verdict on the appeals filed by two clubs against the decision by the league’s...
View ArticleSteps to end sexual initiation of girls in Malawi
It’s an old but harmful practice in this sub-Saharan African country where child marriage is rife: girls as young as 7 or 8 enduring ‘sexual cleansing’ rituals that put their health at risk. When Grace...
View ArticleChihana faces contempt of court charges
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) ‘standby’ president Enoch Katola Chihana risks imprisonment, fine or may have his assets seized for ignoring a Mzuzu High Court order restraining him or his charges from...
View ArticleJB hits back at Kaliati: ‘Why revel in illness of someone else?’
Malawian President Joyce Banda has reacted to remarks by the Director of women in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Patricia Kaliati in which she claimed Banda was responsible in spreading rumours of...
View ArticleMalawians at 50 still in darkness: ‘Electricity is seen as for well to do...
Only nine percent of Malawi’s population has access to electricity, a development Minister of Energy Ibrahim has described as sad and worrisome considering the country will be celebrating 50 years of...
View ArticleMalawi donors stick to their guns: ‘We won’t tow IMF line’
Members of the Common Approach to Budgetary Support (CABS) a grouping of Malawi’s donors who withheld aid last year due to looting of billions of public funds from government coffers in what is known...
View ArticleJB says $67m set aside for Thyolo-Thekerani road
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday revealed that US$ 67 million has been set aside for the Thyolo-Thekerani-Muona-Bangula road to ensure that it is completed after five years of mere talk....
View Article‘Fraud alarm’ at judiciary, Judge Tembo implicated
The maxim “he who comes into equity must come with clean hands” may aptly be applied on the Malawi Judiciary whose judges are reportedly on ‘strike’ on account of unpaid allowances. A letter authored...
View ArticleMalawi experts call for safe abortion law: Costs of unsafe abortion at K232m
Government of Malawi is spending K232 million in providing care for post-abortion with 70, 000 women having abortion every year. Abortion is legally restricted in Malawi with the Penal Code penalizing...
View ArticleWakuda censured over remarks on hunger related deaths
United Independence Party (UIP) president Hellen Sighn has registered her concerns over remarks made by President Joyce Banda’s spin doctor Wakuda Kamanga on reports that people are not dying of...
View ArticleNyirenda, Chihana jostle for JB’s approval as PP denies alliance with Aford
People’s Party (PP) Secretary General Paul Maulidi has denied that the party is in an alliance with Aford [the Alliance for Democracy] whose chairperson Enock Katola Chihana is in the Cabinet of...
View ArticleAgorosso’s debut album Famba out: Africa Movie Academy Award winner
The 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award winner for best soundtrack in filmmaker Shemu Joyah’s The Last Fishing Boat, Agorosso, has released his first album Famba – ‘let’s walk’ – expected to hit the market...
View ArticleAford publicist gets death threats for suing Chihana
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) crisis has turned ugly with reports that its publicity secretary Dan Msoswoya received death threats from anonymous elements within the party who are allegedly aligned to...
View ArticleFootball academy in Mzuzu, promises Surestream
Surestream Petroleum Limited a British Firm that is exploring oil on Lake Malawi has opened preliminary talks with Football Association of Malawi (FAM) to establish a soccer academy in Mzuzu. The...
View ArticleMalawi fuel reserves to increase buffer stocks – Energy Minister
Malawi’s Minister of Energy, Ibrahim Matola says issues of fuel shortage in Malawi will remain a thing of the past after the completion of strategic fuel reserves currently being constructed by an...
View ArticleStop politicizing water supply, Malawian MPs told
As Malawi is heading towards the May 20 tripartite elections official campaign, incumbent and aspiring MPs have been asked to cease politicizing water supply. The call has come from Kate Harawa,...
View ArticleUDF unveils Dr Kholiwe Mkandawire: To contest as MP in Mzimba Solola
One of the country’s strongest and valiant female voices, Dr Kholiwe Mkandawire, has finally come out and declared her intentions to stand as Member of Parliament in her home, Mzimba Sosola. The...
View ArticleCEAR to buy more rail coaches to meet Malawi demand
The Central East African Railways (CEAR), Malawi’s railway transport provider, will buy more passenger coaches to meet high demand. The company told Nyasa Times a week after it introduced six new...
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