Malawi Congress Party convention postponed indefinitely
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has cancelled its national convention slated for this Saturday, April 27 to 29 in the capital Lilongwe to an indefinite date. The party’s convention chairman Joseph...
View ArticleMalawi church leaders demonise JB for assenting to ‘pro-abortion’ bill
Pressure is still mounting on Malawi’s President Joyce Banda to reconsider her recent decision of signing into law the Gender Equality Bill which religious leaders and other civil society organizations...
View ArticleMalawi Parliament deputy clerk in illegal allowance – report
Deputy clerk of Malawi Parliament responsible for corporate services Renard Mapemba on Friday made newspaper headline for wrong reasons – illegal allowances. Mapemba has over the past six months...
View ArticleAnother Malawi mum delivers baby with abnormal features
A Malawian woman in the eastern district of Balaka on Thursday delivered a baby wihout a skull where a light transparent membrane is exposing the brain and other parts inside. Malawi mum delivers baby...
View ArticleGreat Angels Choir-master Ben Mzumara dies
The Great Angels Choir has lost one of its founders and leader, Ben Mzumara who succumbed to long battle with Tuberculosis and anemia in the wee hours of Friday (April 26, 2013) at Kamuzu Central...
View ArticleChanco students march against hiked tuition fees in University of Malawi
Students from Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima) in the eastern city of Zomba on Friday marched to the District Commissioner’s offices to voice their anger...
View Article450,000 people on life-prolonging AIDs drugs in Malawi
Findings by the Malawi’s Ministry of Health have shown that 450 000 people are on Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) in the country. Secretary of Nutrition and HIV and Aids in the Office of the President...
View ArticleMalawi Speaker recommends reduction of slums
Speaker of Parliament Henry Chimunthu Banda Friday recommended a reduction in the number of slums in the country and asked Members of Parliament and Government to make proper allocation of resources to...
View ArticleMalawi music pirates convicted, fined K20,000
The First Grade Magistrate Court in Mzuzu has fined seven music pirates MK20,000 each or in default serve a four month jail term. Police in Mzuzu in conjunction with an Assistant Licensing Officer Dick...
View ArticleUladi: Malawi lawmaker through the backdoor, now PP’s attack dog
As the next year’s presidential and parliamentary campaign is heating up, so is the political rhetoric and mudslinging. Ruling People’s Party (PP) government isn’t leaving any stone unturned and is...
View ArticleMalawi burn pirated materials on world intellectual property day
Malawi on Friday, 26th April, joined the rest of the world in celebrating the World Intellectual Property Day at a function that was hosted by the Mzuzu University (MZUNI) in Mzuzu. Minister of the...
View ArticleMalawi High Court judge Joseph Manyungwa dead aged 46
Malawi’s High Court Judge Joseph Manyungwa died Saturday aged 46. Judiciary spokesperson Mike Tembo said Manyungwa died at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre after a short-illness. Family...
View ArticleZikhale declares north the home of PP: Warns Malawi opposition
The governing Peoples Party (PP) of has claimed that people of the north have closed the region to other political parties saying they should not waste time campaigning in the region because they will...
View ArticleNew Malawi Chief Justice: Anastasia Msosa
Malawi President Joyce Banda has reportedly named Justice Anastansia Msoa as Chief Justice of Malawi. The appointment follows the early retirement of Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo who quit the bench...
View ArticleMedia can kill? Malawi newspaper columnist take to task Pres. Banda over...
Newspaper columnist George Kasakula wrote in a scathing ‘My Diary’ column published in Weekend Nation on Saturday April 27 critiquing President Joyce Banda on comments that the Malawi ‘irritating’...
View ArticleMalawian windmill film launches in Canada: Starring William Kamkwamba
William and the Windmill, a movie that brings to life the events that catapulted a Kasungu primary school dropout to international stardom, opens today in Canada. The film launched Friday night at...
View ArticleMalawi makes headway in immunisation drive
Immunisation has proven to be one of the cost-effective public health intervention programmes that have saved millions of lives from childhood vaccine preventable diseases, Malawi’s Ministry of Health...
View ArticleMCP presidential hopefuls in Zodiak radio debate: Jumbe, Chakwera and Kanjere
Zodiak Broadcasting Services (ZBS) on Friday held its first presidential debate – between three aspirants for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president in the forthcoming tightly contested poll....
View ArticleJB, read this column and Malawi newspapers, it’s good stuff! Tenthani’s...
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”- Thomas Jefferson I am sure President Joyce Banda must have...
View ArticleGeorge Thindwa, witchdoctors and development in Malawi
the other day, I read a newspaper article that made me chuckle. The gist of the article was that some witchdoctors had expressed their wish to seek the permission of the courts to allow them to “take...
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