New wave of African politics: A lesson from Kenya
Malawians are reflexing their muscles getting ready to vote for their leader in the forthcoming tripartite election in 2014. While they enthusiastically wait for this day to come, the similar events...
View ArticleMalawian activist appointed to head African education body: Interview
A Malawian, Limbani Eliya Nsapato has been appointed to head the African Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA) based in Dakar, Senegal as its Regional Coordinator for the next six months. His...
View ArticleCommission recommends establishment of Malawi presidential medical facility
An official Malawian commission of inquiry into circumstances leading to the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika has recommended to government the new presidential medical benefits following...
View ArticleUladi ridicules Mutharika’s unmarried life, says Atupele too young for Malawi...
Minister of Home Affairs and Malawi’s governing Peoples Party (PP) executive member Uladi Mussa made the most of his freedom to speak when he publicly attacked at will the country’s top opposition...
View ArticleMalawi child body rescues 138 girls from early marriages
Mzuzu-based Foundation for Children Rights (FCR) has rescued 138 girls of primary school going age in Karonga district from early marriages by supporting them to proceed with education. FCR Project...
View ArticleMalawi parliament performance unsatisfactory, says political scientist
University of Malawi political scientist Blessings Chinsinga has criticized the just ended sitting of parliament which left many bills unattended to despite meeting for a whole month. Chinsinga’s...
View ArticleVP Kachali shakes Ntchisi: Declares JB to win Malawi 2014 polls
Thousands of people including over 200 Gule Wankulu dancers on Saturday converged at Malomo ground in Ntchisi where Vice President Khumbo Kachali addressed a rally and declared that President Joyce...
View ArticleMalawi Basketball: Likangala, Mulunguzi, Malindi qualify for South Junior...
The K500 000 Southern Zone Basketball League (SZBL) representatives at the regional finals from Zomba Division have been identified over the weekend in an energy-sapping contest held at Mulunguzi...
View ArticleMalawi incarcerated Economic Minister Gondwe ‘stable’ in hospital
Malawi’s Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe, who was also arrested on Monday, in the aftermath of a Commission of Inquiry Report that exposes a plot to circumvent constitutional...
View ArticleKaronga NGO calls off protests against Paladin
The Karonga Business Community, which claims to be an umbrella organization for 52 business groups, has called off planned public protests aimed at forcing the Australian mining company Paladin to...
View ArticleKapito warns of civil disobedience: ‘Drop auto-fuel pricing in Malawi’
Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) Executive Director, John Kapito has agains warned his warning of civil unrest over economic hardships unless government abandon Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM)...
View ArticleDPP supporters hold protests in Lhomwe belt over ‘coup’ arrests: Petition...
Hundreds of opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the ‘Lhomwe belt’ districts of Thyolo, Phalombe and Mulanje on Tuesday morning mobilized themselves to demonstrate against the arrest of...
View ArticleSports Minister talks tough on Malawi players’ welfare
Minister of Sports Enock Chihana on Tusday took to task officials from his ministry, Football association of Malawi (FAM) and Malawi National Council of Sports for failing to address national team...
View ArticleThindwa launches K207m Malawi campaign against witchcraft based violence
After successfully running ‘Eradication of witchcraft based violence project’ in eight districts of the country, the Association for Secular Humanism (ASH) has taken a similar three year project worth...
View ArticleMalawi ‘coup plotters’ to spend another night in police cell
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting President Peter Mutharika and other top officials arrested in connection of the alleged coup plot following the death of President Bingu wa...
View ArticleZomba DPP loyalists protest arrest of Mutharika and others
Former ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) followers in Zomba on Tuesday staged a protest march against the arrest of their interim president Peter Mutharika and other party gurus. In what was a...
View ArticleMemories of Lumbadzi police cell to Peter Mutharika et al: Billy Mayaya
Perhaps you are in my corner Counting the mosquitos as they come in for more blood Perhaps you cant believe that in Malawi There is another world Most people dont know Will never know Of depravity Of...
View ArticleMalawi’s Nyimbo music starts online radio
Nyimbo Music Company (NMC), one of the entertainment firms in Malawi has started an online radio which is streaming the country’s music globally. Radio Nyimbo, operating at Nyimbo Studios in Lilongwe,...
View ArticleMore woes for Malawians as price of sugar goes up
Illovo Sugar Malawi Limited has announced a 15 percent price increase for sugar, one of the few most sought-after household necessity. The development is likely to make life of most Malawians even...
View ArticleUK invites Malawi Pres. Banda for David Livingstone’s bicentenary fête
Malawi President Joyce Banda is this weekend poised to visit Scotland for world’s renowned Scottish explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone’s 200th anniversary fête, as a special guest of honour....
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