MRA gives seized maize to hospitals in northern Malawi
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Commissioner General John Biziwick has sounded a strong warning to members of the general public and business people against exportation of goods especially maize...
View ArticleCourt grants Malawi ex-pres. Muluzi leave for AU 50th anniversary in Addis Ababa
The High Court in Blantyre on Thursday granted former president Bakili Muluzi permission to leave for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in activities to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the...
View ArticleADB impressed with Malawi’s macroeconomic performance, pumps in MK3.1bilion
The African Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday predicted a stable economy by end of the year following improved macroeconomic performance the country has registered so far. ADB Country Rep, Andrew...
View ArticleMalawi multi-faith group PAC elects Bishop Tengatenga as new chair
Malawi quasi-religious organisation the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has elected Right Reverend James Tengatenga, the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Malawi, as its new chairperson....
View ArticleProphet Liabunya goes deeper again: ‘I see breaking news … May God bless Malawi’
What I can say on Malawi is: Lets just be committed in Prayers because I saw a dark cloud. Lets pray against the spirit of death of leaders. There is a plot somewhere happening now to kill someone, a...
View ArticleMalawi Parliament passes National Statistics Bill
Parliament has Thursday passed the 2013 National Statistics Bill. The National Statistics Act of 2013 replaces the Statistics Act of 1967. Speaking during the presentation of the bill to the August...
View ArticleKamuzu Day and Malawi’s festival of forgetting
Last week we had a public holiday in Malawi. May 14 is “Kamuzu Day,” when the nation celebrates the life of its founding president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda whose autocratic rule lasted between 1964 and...
View ArticleZimbabwe boxer jet in Malawi for Chiotcha bout: Speaks tough
Charles Manyuchi, highly rated Zimbabwean boxer based in Zambia arrived on Thursday in Blantyre, Malawi for an eight round non-title middleweight bout against Malawi’s renowned opponent Chimwemwe...
View ArticleChilemba poised to stop ‘arrogant’ Bellew in rematch: Malawi ‘Golden Boy’...
Malawi’s ‘Golden Boy’ Isaac Chilemba says he will not leave it to the judges to decide in his return match with Tony Bellew on Saturday night at the O2 Arena London, saying he will go for straight win....
View ArticleDPP says 2013/14 Malawi budget ‘poetic but uninspiring’
The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has described the 2013/14 budget presented in Parliament on Friday as uninspiring as it will only stimulate the country’s ever-dependence on donors....
View ArticleIMF’s to appraise Malawi economic performance in June, says Fin.Minister: 3rd...
The Executive Board of International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to jet in the country next month to conduct its third review on economic performance under a program supported by the Extended...
View ArticleEconomists take on budget: Bamusi calls it ‘risky’ as Kubalasa says...
One of the country’s renowned economists and human rights campaigner, Mavuto Bamusi, has described the 2013/2014 K603 billion national budget which was presented in Parliament on Friday by Finance...
View ArticleMalawi reps in Big Brother Africa 8: Fatima Nkata and DJ Maliki tipped
Rumours have become rife on the social network that Fatima Nkata and DJ Maliki both from 101 are the ones to represent Malawi at the Big Brother Africa, dubbed The Chase in South Africa. However,...
View ArticleMPs want President-elect sworn after 21 days of vote: Malawi tripartite...
Majority opposition lawmakers spoke in chorus for the Tripartite Elections Bill – which will enable the country to hold three elections, the presidential, parliamentary and local government in 2014,...
View ArticlePeter Mutharika attacks Malawi govt. for ignoring ‘Ndata’ University, Nsanje...
President of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika says he is very disappointed with government’s lack of reference to centers of higher learning and Nsanje inland port in...
View ArticleMalawi Pres. Joyce Banda misses her finest hour: ‘Cut the Chaff’
In Weekend Nation newspaper, award winning columnist Ephraim Munthali of the ‘Cut the chaff‘ has called President Joyce Banda’s state opening address of Parliament as a missed opportunity . Here if...
View ArticleMalawi Queen’s Hospital to have two new operating theatres
The Gogo Chatinkha Maternity Wing at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) will soon have two additional operation rooms to address the deficit the department is facing when conducting cesarean...
View ArticleMalawi targets top 100 in World Banks’s ease of doing business index
Malawi has said by 2014 it aims at getting into the top 100 of the Ease of Doing Business Index, a survey annually done by the World Bank. Trade and Industry minister of the Sub-Saharan nation Sausten...
View ArticleMchinji villagers want police closed: Threaten to deal with officers
Malawi Police officers at Mkanda Police Unit in Mchinji district are fearing for their lives following persistent threats issued at them by some villagers in the area. The community members are angry...
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