A family a cow project to end poverty-Malawi VP
Vice President Khumbo Kachali has said the presidential Initiative to distribute a cow to each family is one of practical way of reducing poverty among rural households in Malawi. Kachali was speaking...
View ArticleA ‘Gang of Three’, the Midnight Six’ and the death of ‘Daniel Phiri’– anatomy...
The Commission of Inquiry’s 105-page report into the death, in April 2012, of President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and political manoeuvrings in the immediate aftermath makes for compelling reading....
View ArticleMalawian actor Henry Ntalika dead: National theatre vice president
The Malawian theatre industry has yet again been hit by another death of a senior and talented actor, Henry Ntalika, who died Wednesday night. Ntalika, who until his death was vice president of the...
View ArticleMOAM foresees doom to minibus business in Malawi
The Minibus Owners Association of Malawi (MOAM) says the number of minibuses plying on the roads of Malawi has decreased by 10 percent. MOAM Secretary General, Coxley Kamange said this in an interview...
View ArticleMalawi says lake dispute with Tanzania will move to International Court
Malawi government has vowed that it will “vigorously” defend its Lake Malawi, saying the lake border disputes with Tanzania will move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands if...
View ArticleMalawi Pres. Banda launches results of integra sexual, reproductive health in...
Malawian President Joyce Banda has launched the results of a five-year research by the Integra Project in the area of sexual and reproductive health and HIV at the British House of Parliament,...
View ArticleMalawi police work not to prevent accidents but to raise money – motorists
The traffic police in Malawi don’t work to prevent road accidents but to raise money, some motorists have said. Describing the speed trap as a classical example, the motorists alleges that the traffic...
View ArticleMalawi Pres. Banda meets Duke of York
Malawi President Joyce Banda in her on going official visit to the United Kingdom on Wednesday visited Buckingham Palace for a courtesy call on His Royal Highness The Duke of York. According to State...
View ArticleArmstrong, Dalisoul single hits airwaves
Musiye Ayende, a song by Zambia’s Dalisoul featuring Afunika and Malawi’s own Afro-R&B singer Armstrong has hit the airwaves. The song, which has gained popularity in Zambia, is one of the three...
View ArticleMalawian gospel artists accuses radio personality George Adams of cheating them
Some Malawian gospel artists have cried foul over the distribution of the cash donation Transport and Publics works minister, Sidik Mia presented to artists who curtain raised the launch of Kamuzu...
View Article14 foreign designers in Malawi Fashion Week
At least 14 fashion designers from outside Malawi have shown interest to participate in the inaugural Malawi Fashion Week (MFW) slated for May 30th to June 3rd. According to the organisers of the...
View ArticleMalawi sees surge in demand for passports
The demand for a Malawian passport increased between 2011 and 2012 with the Immigration Department issuing over 200, 000 travel documents despite facing a shortage of passport booklets as well as the...
View ArticleSeodi fights ‘widow sex’ tradition in Malawi
Lawyer and human rights activist Seodi White has long been an outspoken campaigner for gender justice in Malawi, a country where half its women are married before the age of 18. As the head of the...
View ArticleMalawi baby with weird features: Doctors say its genetic condition not...
A weird-looking baby, the first ever case to be reported in Malawi was on Thursday moved to the major referall hospital in capital city of Malawi, Lilongwe where doctors at Kamuzu Central Hospital...
View ArticleWhy Malawi must consider offering free secondary education
Remarks made recently by 2014 presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi on the United Democratic Front’s plans to explore the possibility of providing free secondary school education when elected stirred a...
View ArticleRenowned novelist Chinua Achebe dies
Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel Things Fall Apart, is dead. Achebe, 82, died in the United States where he was said to have suffered from an...
View ArticleMalawi needs 74yrs to eradicate its poverty- Oxford Index study
As efforts through the Economic Recovery Plan are underway to put the country on a sound footing, a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) study by Oxford University says Malawi needs at least 74 years...
View ArticleMalawi herbalist jailed 10 years for sexual assault on client
A First Grade Magistrate Court in Malawi’s central region district of Nkhotakota has sentenced a 35 year old herbalist to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for raping his client. State prosecutor...
View ArticleMalawi leader defends China links, tells the West: ‘Don’t tell us what to do’
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has candidly told the West to stop telling Africans what to do saying they should come to Africa only as partners and not to dictate on what African governments must do....
View ArticleChevening scholar raises Malawi flag high in UK: Kasakula, Weekend Nation editor
One of this academic year’s British funded Chevening scholars, George Kasakula, on Monday literally raised the Malawi flag when he gave a day-long talk on diverse Africa in general and Malawi in...
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