Zambian arrested in Malawi for sexual assault on 13-year-old girl
Malawi Police in central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu are keeping in custody a 23-year-old Zambian national suspected to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl at Matawale Village in...
View ArticleMalawi plans to re-open embassy in Kenya: Comesa summit ends
Malawi President rs Joyce Banda has revealed that her government plans to re-open its High Commission in Nairobi as part of its initiative to strengthen relations with Kenya. President Banda revealed...
View ArticleMalawi’s Black Moses attacked: Survived death
Controversial youth political activist Black Moses, a close friend of slain Malawi Polytechnic fourth year engineering student Robert Chasowa, was ambushed on the wee hours of Saturday morning in a...
View ArticlePaladin dismisses Malawi corruption charges: Nawena claims ‘without foundation’
Uranium miner Paladin Energy has dimissed claims by Malawian lawmaker that a child of one of the top government official has pocketed over K40 million bribe from the managers of Kayelekera project in...
View ArticleOf Malawi’s seasoned human rights activists and politics
Malawi will never stop to amuse me. It’s hilarious how people mix everything, politics, human rights, family/personal issues and current affairs.With the current economic crisis hitting hard, everyone...
View ArticleMalawi minister Jooma disowns Atupele attack: Complains against Facebook...
Malawi’s deputy minister of finance, Ralph Jooma, MP, has protested over a fake account on social networking website Facebook in his name while also defaming him. On the Facebook page, there were...
View ArticleMalawi ex-president Muluzi seeks compensation over false arrest
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi is suing the state for false arrest, physical inconvenience and defamation following his arrest in 2008 on coup plot allegations. Muluzi was detained in 2008 for...
View ArticleRainstorm destroys Malawi Government offices
A rainstorm destroyed millions worth of print materials at the government print warehouse in the capital Lilongwe. Materials include papers, gazettes, employment and procurement acts, other files and...
View ArticleMalawi Govt faulted on electricity tarrif increase: Subsidise costs, appeals...
Some Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday faulted government for adjusting electricity tariffs, saying this has resulted in more charcoal use among community dwellers in the country. Speaking on the...
View ArticleMalawi opposition lawmakers press govt to clarify gay rights stance
Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwanza West, Nicholas Dausi, on Tuesday asked government to explain its stand on gay and abortion rights issues. This follows recent announcement by Minister of Justice...
View ArticleGlobalisation or cultural imperialism?: American accents on Malawi radios,...
Malawi radio stations lack diversity in programming and content, a development that renders the proliferation of radio stations somewhat meaningless. In part, this owes it to the fact that most people...
View ArticleJoyce Banda ranked among world’s 100 great thinkers
Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda has been listed by the Foreign Policy (FP) magazine amongst the Top 100 Global Thinkers, together with greats like US President Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XI...
View ArticleStudents help out Ntcheu hospital patients
Ntcheu District Hospital’s under-five ward in charge, Patricia Chiumia has advised students to learn to assist the needy and underprivileged. Chiumia said this last Sunday when members of Malawi...
View ArticleMalawian multi-faith group PAC backs January anti-government demo
The Public Affairs Committee (Pac), multi-faith pressure group, has supported the move by Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) to hold national-wide demonstration in protest against President Joyce...
View ArticleZimbabwe CSOs send SOS to Malawi counterparts
Civil rights campaigners in Zimbabwe are making a strong appeal to their Malawi counterparts to assist them address civil rights abuses they are facing in Zimbabwe. Representatives of Zimbabwe...
View ArticleMalawi insecurity: Robbers hit Chipiku store in BT, attack Pakistan...
Malawi Police failed to reposnd to an armed robbery at Chipiku Store at Ginnery Corner in commercial city of Blantyre Wednesday evening. A gang of about 10 men, brandishing guns and pangas, attacked...
View ArticleFAM’s indecisiveness puts Sulom off balance on Malawi Carlsberg Cup
Super League of Malawi (Sulom) was this week put off-balance following Football Association of Malawi’s (Fam) failure to communicate the programme for Carlsberg Cup final, which is likely to be shifted...
View ArticleMalawi: Chihana’s flight of youthful fancy
Minister Responsible for Youth Development and Sport, Enoch Chihana, if he fine-tunes his idea, could be a positive contributor to Malawi’s now-imperative Agenda for Change and Renewal. In a recent...
View ArticleMalawi to commemorate world AIDS day: Ceremony to be held in Nsanje
Malawi will on 1st December join the rest of the world in commemorating the world AIDS day in a ceremony to be held in Nsanje District. The launch of the 2012/2013 world AIDS day will be held in Nsanje...
View ArticleMalawi opposition UDF denies receiving funds from Sudan’s Al-Bashir
Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) party has slammed as “gross” accusations from governing People’s Party operatives that its October 31 convention allegedly received funds from Sudanese...
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