MBC staff rebuff salary increment: TV workers better paid than radio
Employees of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) have penned management and government questioning a salary increment the institution effected in line with current economic hardship. The employees,...
View ArticleMalawi Police officer demoted for sexual assault on suspect
Officer–in–charge for Chilipa Police Unit in the Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi has been demoted and transferred to Mangochi Police station two weeks after his arrest for sexually assultingt...
View ArticleAtupele backs January anti-government demo in Malawi-report
President of opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Atupele Muluzi has supported the move by Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) to hold national-wide demonstration in protest against President...
View ArticleMalawi minister collapses after overdose of sex pills
A report that Malawi minister of defence, Ken Kandodo, collapsed with a heart attack after an overdose of sex pills of Viagra has gone viral on social media. Kandodo, who is also parliamentarian for...
View ArticleMalawi woman delivers baby without eyes, nose, ears, skull
A woman from Chiluvya Village in the area of Senior Chief Kanyenda in Nkhotakota district on December 6, 2012 delivered fraternal twins at Nkhotakota District Hospital, but one child was born without...
View ArticleMalawi’s Joyce Banda ranked among 100 most influential Africans: TB Joshua on...
Malawi’s State President Mrs. Joyce Banda has been named one of 100 Africa’s most influential people. The recognition by a United Kingdom published Pan African Magazine, New African, comes barely two...
View ArticleMalawi lawyers see no error on point of law in VP’s electoral body role
Private practice lawyers have defended President Joyce Banda decision of appointing vice president Khumbo Kachali as a minister responsible for the independent Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC)....
View ArticleMalawi civil servants abandon work 2 days because of blackout
Government work has stopped for two days in the commercial city of Blantyre because of power blackout whose cause is not explained. The new Government building in Blantyre which houses government...
View ArticleKandodo denies sex with teen
Malawi minister of defence, Ken Kandodo has denied salacious accusations at the center of a sex scandal that have muddied his reputation. Reports that Kandodo collapsed with a heart attack after an...
View ArticleProphet Bushiri lies about Bentley purchase
Controversial Prophet Shepherd Bushiri on Wednesday put up a post on Facebook claiming that a member of his ministry based in South Africa had bought him a Bentley Hunaudieres. Bushiri even posted a...
View ArticleMalawi Road Traffic Directorate standardize minibus colour coding
The Road Traffic Directorate says it’s currently drafting minibus colour-coding regulations to legally bind the initiative before rolling it out. The Directorate’s announcement follows a submission of...
View ArticleRetrenched MIJ workers plan demo against Nkunika
Former employees of Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) have threatened to demonstrate against the institution’s executive director, Dalitso Nkunika following her refusal to honor their retrenchment...
View ArticleAtupele clarifies position on protests in Malawi
President of opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Atupele Muluzi is setting the record straight regarding misconceptions reported by media outlets about national-wide demonstration in protest...
View ArticleMalawi leader approves contract renewal of MACRA boss Nsaliwa
The broadcasting regulator, the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has renewed the contract of its Director General Charles Nsaliwa. Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu confirmed to...
View ArticleMalawian held for hosting Ethiopian illegal immigrants
Police in Mzuzu arrested yet another Malawian citizen this week for harbouring seven Ethiopian nationals who are suspected to have entered the country illegally. Mzuzu Police Publicist, Maurice...
View ArticleMalawi academic activist Jessie Kabwira backs Kapito on protests
Former president of the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College Academic Staff Union, Jessie Kabwila says she strongly rallies behind the idea of holding peaceful mass demonstration against President...
View ArticleMalawi teen girl abducted, sexually abused for 11 days
A 17-year-old girl from Mkhota Village, T/A Santhe in Malawi’s central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu is reeling from trauma after a 27-year-old man abducted and held her captive in his...
View ArticleWhy Malawi’s education sector is in a mess: Part I
In its editorial of Thursday 29th November, The Nation newspaper expressed alarm at the revelation that Malawi’s education sector was performing worse than our neighbours. The Nation posed the question...
View ArticleBlack Moses case: Court gives State ultimatum to bring evidence
Blantyre Magistrates Court has given the State up to next month to provide evidence in a court case against Black Moses or will dismiss the charge. Black Moses is answering charges of cultivation of...
View ArticleMalawi launches export strategy: JB announces ‘concrete actions’
President Joyce Banda launched the National Export Strategy (NES) on Friday in Lilongwe, announcing “concrete actions to turn the vision of the National Export Strategy into a reality”. NES gives...
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