Mutharika says National Service to give Malawi youth military training
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has disclosed plans by his government to establish a National Service -similar to the defunct Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) – where the youth will be given military...
View ArticleTwo Mozambicans arrested over human bones
Malawi Police in Luchenza have locked up two Mozambican nationals for possessing and attempting to sell 12 human bones to businessman Enock Taliana at Makoka Trading Centre in Thyolo. Luchenza Police...
View ArticleChimbali quits as spokesman of Malawi health ministry
Ministry of Health Public Relations Officer (PRO) Henry Salmon Chimbali has resigned with immediate effect from the ministry but kept the reason of quitting close to his chest. “Yes I can confirm that...
View ArticleMalawi to continue with ‘zero-aid budget’ –Finance Minister
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said Malawi will continue with the hurting zero-aid budgetconcert whilst waiting for aid resumption. Malawi has been operating...
View ArticleMutharika comes under fire over ‘mediocre’ SONA
Social and political commentators in Malawi have described President Peter Mutharika’s State of Nation Address (SONA) delivered in Parliament on Tuesday as wanting and lacking a clear practical...
View ArticleI’m not rebelling- Lucius Banda
Balaka North member of Parliament (MP) Lucius Banda has said he is not rebelling the governing pact between his United Democratic Front (UDF) and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) by rejecting...
View ArticleMutharika hints on dual citizenship for Malawi: Reviewing Citizenship Act
President Peter Mutharika has said government is pushing for the review of the Citizenship Act so that Malawians can start exploiting the benefits of dual citizenship. Mutharika speaking when he opened...
View ArticleChakwera says Mutharika inflating promises: Malawians having nightmares with...
Malawi’s Leader of the Opposition, Lazarous Chakwera, was on a charm offensive on Wednesday in parliament during his response to President Peter Mutharika state of the nation address, saying it was...
View ArticleChakwera says DPP continues with ‘cashgate shenanigans’: Queries K6m bailout...
Leader of Opposition Lazarus Chakwera, who is also president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera, has asked government to explain the intention of selling state-owned Malawi Savings...
View ArticleKaferapanjira tears apart Mutharika’s economic growth projection
Malawi President Peter Mutharika statement that the country’s economy is projected to register a real Growth Domestic Product (GDP) of 5.4 percent in 2015, has been taken with a pinch of the salt by...
View ArticleMalawi Kwacha appreciation manipulated: Chakwera blasts Mutharka’s zero...
As some commentators have argued that the true value of the kwacha is being distorted, leader of opposition in parliament, Dr Lazarus Chakwera has accused the Peter Mutharika government of “deception”...
View ArticleUladi takes a dig at ‘babysitter’ Mutharika: Lacks strategic direction
It does not rain but pour for President Peter Mutharika who after being described as an “Executive babysitter” by Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera, leader of People’s Party (PP) in...
View ArticleMalawi set aside K4bn for maize purchase to avert hunger: Goodall says Admarc...
Government will give the Agricultural Development and Marketin Corporation (ADMARC) K4 billion to purchase maize from farmers in readiness of the rooming hunger. Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe told...
View ArticleMalawi court orders halt to Paladin disposing uranium waste
High Court has granted the business coalition on mines in Karonga restraining uranium miner Paladin Africa Ltd from discharging its treated tailings dam water at Kayelekera mine into the local river...
View ArticleDeal with K92bn DPP-era cashgate, opposition calls on Malawi President
Malawi opposition and human rights campaigners have said President Peter Mutharika should deal with the K92 billion cashgate corruption scandal which occurred during the DPP reign alongside the K20...
View ArticleMCP says UDF relocation has created ‘constitutional crisis’: Lucius Banda frozen
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Msozi South, Vitus Dzoole Mwale has told parliament that the move nby United Democratic Front (UDF) to join government benches in the national assembly has...
View ArticleProphet Hara brutally attacked by thugs in Malawi capital
Leader and founder of Ambassadors for Christ Senior Prophet Justice Hara was seriously injured when unknown thugs attacked him last Monday on his way to a church meeting. Hara met his predicament in...
View ArticleCSOs to hold protests against Malawi Savings Bank sale
Come Friday next week, the rights campaigners and concerned citizens would hit the streets to hold protests against the controversial recapitalisation of state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). The...
View ArticleIt’s Bingu Stadium not Joyce Banda idea – Malawi govt
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Grace Chiumia has said government would not name the state-of-the-art stadium currently under construction in Lilongwe has after immediate past president Joyce...
View ArticleShoot to kill: Malawi Police shoot dead two habitual criminals
Malawi Police have shot dead two habitual criminals in Area 25 sector 7 in the capital city of Lilongwe who had stolen over K2 million from a Zomba-based accountant working for the Zomba-Neno...
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