Disqualify JB, activists ask Malawi Electoral Commission
Civil and human rights activists in Malawi have called upon the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to disqualify President Joyce Banda and her running mate from the May 20 tripartite elections, for...
View ArticleCashgate: CSOs press JB to summon Parliament over forensic audit report
Just a few days after Civil Society Organisations under the umbrella of Grand Coalition expressed concern over government’s continued failure to call for Parliament meeting, two leading...
View ArticleKhumbo avoids PP slogan at Mzuzu rally
State Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who is also an elected Peoples Party vice President for the north, openly showed his discontent for being sidelined as PP running mate in May 20 tripartite polls...
View ArticleJoyce Banda will not resign, Mpinganjira trashes activists
Malawi President Joyce Banda will not be stampeded by some activists calling her to resign from her office in respect of Section 80(7) (e) which bars a person from nomination as a President or First...
View ArticleFAWEMA curbs girl-child school absenteeism through Star School Model
The Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (FAWEMA) has taken an extensive drive to curb girl-child school absenteeism by supporting girls’ education and construction of washrooms in primary...
View ArticleEscom disconnects Malawi gov’t building for unpaid bils
Government business has come to a standstill at new government building in the commercial city of Blantyre after Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) cut off power supply due to unpaid...
View ArticleGwengwe says PP to create middle class society in Malawi
The Minister of Industry and Trade who is also People’s Party (PP) presidential running mate, Sosten Gwengwe, says once PP is voted into power in the forthcoming tripartite elections it will transform...
View ArticleCashgate cases adjourned: Court to rule on preliminary objections
The High Court in Lilongwe has set Thursday next week as the day it deliver a ruling on the prelimenary objections raised on Wednesday by lawyer Wapona Kita representing three people who are charged...
View ArticleCashgate audit report out by Friday, no doctoring- Malawi gov’t spokesman
A British forensic audit report on Malawi’s “Cashgate” scandal involving the looting of about $20 million (K8.9 billion), will be released this week, Minister of Information and Civic Education, Brown...
View ArticleWanderers miss K5.5 million in three days
Financially troubled Mighty Wanderers missed an opportunity to deposit K5.5 million into their account within three days after failing to grab fourth position in the just ended TNM Super League as well...
View ArticlePP’s Mzomera tongue lashes MCP, DPP and UDF
Peoples Party (PP) Provisional Chairperson for the north Reverend Christopher Mzomera Ngwira on Wednesday used a presidential rally to attack three main opposition parties, saying they are a menace to...
View ArticleMalawi govt rejects anti-gay law advanced by Muslims
Malawi’s Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Fahad Assani, has trashed calls by the Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts to include death penalty....
View ArticleChikulamayembe says Khumbo no big deal: Endorses JB-Gwengwe pairing
Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of the Tumbuka tribe of the Nkhamanga Kingdom in Rumphi District has endorsed President Joyce Banda’s pairing with Trade Minister Sosten Gwengwe in May 20 elections,...
View ArticleMalawi law students from private colleges petition govt
Law students from the Blantyre International University (BIU) in conjunction with their colleagues from other private owned colleges on Tuesday presented a petition to State President Dr Joyce Banda...
View ArticleParliament to meet after Forensic audit report release -Phoya
The Malawi National Assembly will not convene unless the Forensic Audit Report, expected to lay bare the mishaps that led to the looting of millions of US dollars by some civil servants at Capital...
View ArticleNgwira says JB is like biblical Deborah, detractors to perish
People’s Party (PP) provincial chairperson for the North, Reverend Christopher Mzomera Ngwira, has cursed critics of President Joyce Banda that they will perish if they continue attacking and...
View ArticleMEC rejects Chisi as Malawi presidential candidate: 11 approved
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has approved 11 presidential candidates who presented their nomination papers but refused Umodzi Party (UP) presidential candidate Professor John Chisi. Section 51 of...
View ArticleI’m not bitter, Khumbo warns haters: Malawi VP
State Vice-President Khumbo Kachali on Thursday told a rally in Mzimba that he accepted to be left out as President Joyce Banda’s running mate, saying that he is not irritated with the development but...
View ArticleJoyce Banda: New president, old tricks?
Malawi’s president, Joyce Banda, needs no reminder that her honeymoon in office is over. When she assumed office in the aftermath of Bingu wa Mutharika’s sudden death, not many people, least among them...
View ArticleForum says DPP has ‘case to answer’ on cashgate origins
Forum for National Development (FND) on Thursday called upon Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its leader Professor Peter Mutharika to be the first ones to provide answers on massive plunder and...
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