Malawi midterm budget to be revised, says Phoya
Finance Minister Dr Ken Lipenga will present to Parliament the revised midterm before the current session ends next week, Leader of the House Henry Phoya told the House on Friday. Phoya, who is also...
View ArticleMalawi Pres. Banda snubs critics: ‘Women blamed since biblical time’
Malawi President Joyce Banda has urged women in Malawi to be resilient and keep on praying, saying women have always been blamed and criticized since biblical time. The President’s statement came at a...
View ArticleMalawi women seek divine intervention on lake row with Tanzania
Malawi women have been urged to pray for God’s intervention on the Lake Malawi border dispute with Tanzania so that it goes in the southern African nation and that the matter is resolved amicably. The...
View ArticleMalawi child defilement case of Asian Abdul Hassan: Defence lawyer’s...
An NGO and Government official caused a storm during the court proceedings in Zomba, in a case of child defilement where a Malawian of Asian origin Abdul Sattar Hassan is answering charges of indecent...
View ArticleHas parliament legalized abortion? Malawi Catholic bishops condemn abortion...
Malawi parliament this week passed a government bill which critics say will make abortion legal in the country and bishops of the influential Catholic church in Malawi in a pastoral statement—expected...
View ArticleMalawi accuses Tanzania of being in breach of mediation agreement: Lake row
The Malawi government is condemning Tanzanian officials for making sentiments, which it says are in breach of the agreement of resolving the Lake Malawi boarder claim. Tanzanian media quoted the...
View ArticlePeter Mutharika in a mini bus ride: Malawi presidential hopeful
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president Peter Mutharika on Saturday abandoned his posh motorcade for a public commuter mini bus ride in the capital Lilongwe when he went to the...
View ArticleMalawi High Commission in Kenya reopens: Brigadier Marcel Chirwa made deputy...
Malawi has reopened its High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya and Brigadier General Marcel Chirwa had been appointed Deputy High Commissioner. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said...
View ArticleKamlepo formally joins Malawi ruling PP: ‘No chance for opposition’
Political rabble-rouser Kamlepo Kalua on Saturday formally announced his joining of ruling People’s Party (PP) at a political rally attended by President Joyce Banda and her deputy Khumbo Kachali in...
View ArticleJB vows to revive Malawi economy, end hardships ‘brought by DPP’
Malawi President Joyce Banda has vowed to get the country’s economy growing again and to do more to end hardships which she noted were caused by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Speaking at a...
View ArticleMalawi MPs triumph over Zambian counterparts in social football, netball
Malawi Parliamentarians on Saturday, March 02, 2013 showed supremacy over visiting legislatures from neighbouring Zambia, beating the visitors in social football and netball games played at Civo...
View Article300 patients surviving on porridge at Rumphi district hospital
For a week now, about 300 patients admitted to Rumphi district hospital are surviving on porridge as the hospital coffers have run dry. Both patients and hospital officials corroborated this in...
View ArticleMalawi Pres. JB to attend Senior Chief Chapananga’s burial: Sub TA Chalenga...
President Joyce Banda will Tuesday join the Chapananga family, Chikhwawa community and Malawians at large for the burial of Senior Chief Chapananga who died on Saturday at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in...
View Article‘God is Malawian’ says Catholic priest at Martyr’s Day event
Rev. Sam Ng’oma of the Catholic Church has said God is Malawian. He made his observations during this year’s 3rdMarch Martyr’s Day Remembrance Memorial held in Nkhata-Bay, where about 31 people were...
View ArticleFischer recalled to Malawi squad: Silver players dominate
Flames caretaker coach Eding’ton Ng’onamo has released a 25-member locally based squad scheduled to go into camp on Monday 4th March at Chiwembe Technical Centre in the commercial city of Malawi,...
View ArticleMESN pushes for JB’s intervention on Malawi electoral law
Pressure in mounting on Malawi President Joyce Banda to intervene and ensure that the passing of the harmonized electoral law is given priority in the current sitting of parliament, a move that would...
View ArticleMalawi to have a heroes acre – President Banda
President Joyce Banda has disclosed that government will have a site for Malawi’s first-ever national heroe’ acre. Banda was speaking at Nkhata-Bay on Sunday during a Martyrs Remembrance Day Memorial...
View ArticleJB upbeat to turn around Malawi economy fast enough
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Sunday repeated her claims that administration policies are producing a robust economic recovery. Speaking at the Martyrs’ Day commemoration in Nkhata-Bay district on...
View ArticleMalawi govt set to dissolve Mzuzu University Council
The Malawi government has indicated that it will cancel contracts for the Mzuzu University (Mzuni) Council and appoint a new one to steer the embattled institution to a path of growth so that it...
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