UDF to join opposition benches in Malawi Parliament
United Democratic Front (UDF) has written Speaker of the National Assembly, Henry Chimunthu Banda that its legislators will return to opposition benches during the next sitting of Parliament scheduled...
View ArticlePaladin can pack up and go: Malawi needs win-win deals with investors
Issues surrounding Kayelekera Mine in Karonga have for a long time been a bone of contention as some quarters feel that Malawi government was hoodwinked in signing a deal that does not bring direct...
View ArticlePaladin’s Malawi uranium deal: PETRA calls for combined forces against...
Malawi’s opposition party, People’s Transformation Movement (PETRA), says Malawians need to combine forces if they are to effectively fight any form of exploitation by foreign businesses. PETRA’s...
View ArticleMalawi Fashion Week starts this year – Dawa Loga
As the fashion industry is on the rise, with Malawian designers now getting international recognition, the country will this year witness the birth of its first ever Fashion Week. Known as the Malawi...
View ArticleMalawi academic Kabwila says wrong to hail President Banda for peaceful demos
Malawi academic and social activist Jessie Kabwila has said it is wrong for the Joyce Banda administration to claim any credit from the peaceful conduct of the anti-government demonstrations which was...
View ArticleNomads fight back to draw with Civo: Malawi Super League
Mighty Wanderers fought back superbly to salvage a 2-2 draw with Civo United who looked in control of their TNM Super League game on Saturday at Kamuzu Stadium in the commercial city of Malawi,...
View ArticleSilver held after Moyale’s late equalizer: Malawi Super League
Moyale Barracks, the Northern Region soccer kings, squandered several scoring opportunities but still managed to grab a late equalizer defending champions Silver Strikers to draw 1-1 in the TNM Super...
View ArticleMalawi President Joyce Banda: Eight months later, where have all dreams gone?
In her first State of the Nation Address delivered in Parliament on May 18 2012, President Joyce Banda—revelling in a sea of goodwill, popular support and massive political capital, revealed her dream...
View ArticleKCH run out of lifesaving IV fluids: Malawi hospitals ‘waiting rooms for death’
Malawi’s public hospitals are becoming waiting rooms for death with shortages of treatment, the recent being the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe where there is shortage of...
View ArticleBig Brother Africa season 8 to start in May- MulitChoice Malawi
Season eight of Africa’s number one reality TV show, Big Brother Africa (BBA) has been scheduled to start on May 26, according to M-Net Africa. This was announced through a statement made available to...
View ArticleStella Maris School negligence cost student’s life
Stella Maris Secondary School is a prestigious instituion, but the recent death of of one of the students has created a blot in its image., leaving her family in state of despondency, Nyasa Times has...
View ArticleJB launches Malawi mining governance and support project
President Joyce Banda on Tuesday launched a mining project that will facilitate the development of infrastructure for generation and distribution of reliable geological information. The Mining...
View ArticleJoyce Banda’s bold calculations: Ambuje’s Diary 2013 Part 1
It was good to be in Malawi last December and enter the new year in my home country. In my estimation, by far the preoccupation of ordinary Malawians was, and still is, the economic hard times the...
View ArticleMalawi electoral stakeholders await AG to act on new recommendations
Electoral stakeholders in Malawi have finalized making recommendations that seek to harmonize the country’s electoral laws so that they should be in tandem with tripartite elections the country is...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Zahara back in Malawi, to perform in Blantyre
After her performance in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe last year, South Africa’s sensational female singer Zahara of the Loliwe fame returns in the country next month and is scheduled to perform in...
View ArticleMalawians to see sharp improvement of economy in 6 months – JB
President Joyce Banda has assured that that her reform agenda will start bearing fruits and that Malawians would see a sharp improvement in the economy within the next six months . President Banda said...
View ArticleMalawi President Banda sticks to her guns: Won’t declare assets
Malawi President Joyce Banda has again challenged critics that she will not declare her assets, insisting that that she is not contravening any known law. The President has been urged by opposition...
View ArticlePressure mounts on politician Mvula’s probe for lying under oath
Some Malawians have raised serious questions about the integrity of the information gathered by the Commission of Inquiry into the puzzling death of University of Malawi student Robert Chasowa in 2011....
View ArticleMzuni hoodwinks Malawi Pres Banda on VC appointment
The Mzuzu University Council has deliberately deceived its Chancellor, President Joyce Banda by asking her to approve a re-advertisement of the post of Vice Chancellor, when the Mzuzu University Act...
View ArticleKinnah remains Malawi coach, insists Sports Minister
Malawi government through youth and sports Minister Enoch Chihana has said it has not sacked national team coach Kinnha Phiri as it is consulting the Attorney General to find out the implications of...
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