Paladin face demos in Malawi: Demands to shut down of Kayerekera uranium mine
The business community and other concerned citizens in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are planning to hold demonstrations from 12 to 26th March 2012 which seeks to force the Australian...
View ArticleMalawi lawmaker Shaba loses seat: Sec 65 applied
Speaker of the National Assembly Henry Chimunthu Banda has declared vacant, a parliamentary seat of Henry Mpofu Shaba after invoking section 65 of the Constitution which bars a member of a political...
View ArticleMalawi misses IMF target on government social spending
Malawi has failed to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) set targets on social spending by small margin, the global leader said on Tuesday. The IMF’s mission head for Malawi, Tsidi Tsikata, told a...
View ArticleRuling by Malawi Speaker on petition by UDF against MP crossing the floor –...
1. PREAMBLE Honourable Members, on 19th June 2012, I was petitioned by the United Democratic Front (UDF) through its Secretary General Mr. Kennedy Samson Makwangwala, to declare vacant a seat of a...
View ArticleMalawian in America arrested over prostitution sting
A Malawian man has been arrested in United States of America in a prostitution sting carried out by Police in South Bend, according to media reports. The Malawian nation held by Police has been...
View ArticleMalawi civil servant’s strike worsening: Lipenga says no money for pay hike
Civil servants in Malawi have remained adamant and continue defying government’s call to end their stay-away as the situation is steadily getting worse. There is no sign of an end to the ongoing...
View ArticleNation newspaper journalist wins in Airtel Malawi Timaitha Promotion
Yvonnie Sundu, a journalist working with the The Nation newspaper was one of the winners in the ongoing Airtel Timaitha Promotion. Sundu and a Lizulu Market Sweets vendor Mike Chimtele won K100 000...
View ArticleStars migration to Mozambique irks Football Association of Malawi
The recent migration by Malawian players to Mozambique has irked Football Association of Malawi (FAM) accusing the footballers of not following proper procedures. Nyasa Times understands that the...
View ArticleBullets cannot beat us 10-0 says Lions coach: Malawi TNM Super League
Red Lions coach Collins Nkuna has laughed off the suggestions that his team can lose 10-0 to Big Bullets, saying the Zomba based military outfit is equally looking for a win against the ‘people’s team’...
View ArticleMalawi’s newly opened Karonga-Chitipa road built by Chinese damaged
In a classic shoddy work, some parts of the much-touted Karonga-Chitipa road have already started getting damaged barely a month after President Joyce Banda officially opened it amid much ballyhoo. The...
View ArticleAll set as Malawi hosts Africa Movie Academy Awards
Just under a month before Malawi hosts some of the popular film makers and celebrities from across Africa, organizers say they are geared up for the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) nomination event....
View ArticleKamanya tells Parliament: ‘DPP was a killer disease for Malawians’
Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change Management, Godfrey Kamanya on Tuesday referred to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as a disease that would have killed Malawians. Standing on a...
View ArticleMalawi Pres Banda leaves for Equatorial Guinea: To attend Africa—South...
President Joyce Banda is to leave for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Thursday to attend the Africa—South America Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on 21st and 22nd February, 2013. The Malawi leader...
View ArticleMalawi public school pupils disrupt classes at JB Foundation
Pupils from some schools in Blantyre descended on Joyce Banda Foundation in Chimwankhunda in the commercial city pelting stones at the buildings and disrupted classes in protest against President Joyce...
View ArticleStrikes shut down Malawi airport: Civil servants hold demo in Lilongwe
Malawi civil servants who are currently on strike over demands for better pay on Wednesday closed Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in the capital Lilongwe and took to the streets to march to the...
View ArticleDPP statement on Malawi civil service strike
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) notes with regret the disjointed and disconnected nature in the way the strike and associated concerns by the Civil Servants have been handled by the PP-run...
View ArticleMalawi strike grows: Mzuzu chant anti-Joyce Banda songs
Civil servants in the northern region braved intermittent showers and cold weather on Wednesday by participating in a protest march to present a four page petition addressed to President Joyce Banda...
View ArticleMalawi Prophet Austin Liabunya claims: ‘God has told him to deliver solutions...
This is what God has told me to tell the Nation of Malawi so that He can manifest His hand of mercy: “Tell the government to do these three things ‘said the Lord God’ so that I will heal it. Government...
View ArticleToo early: ‘April Fools Day’ game is helping nobody: Malawi strike
Most Malawians will tell you to go to hell about certain days ‘celebrated’ elsewhere across the globe. These may vary, but for sure Christmas is not one of them. I am talking about little known or...
View ArticleKamphinda accused of collecting money from Mutharika for Malawi strike
Some government officials have accused opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president Peter Mutharika of sponsoring mass strike of civil servants through their mother body, Civil...
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