Cash-strapped Malawi Electoral Commission cancel registration for by-elections
The funding woes that have rocked various government departments and parastatals have not spared the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as it has yet again failed to start another crucial activity in...
View ArticleMalawi fuel prices go up: Time to dig deeper into pockets
Bad news of the move –motorists will have to dig deeper into their pockets following the upward adjustments of fuel prices by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). The regulator adjusted upwards...
View ArticleShanil hails govt as UDF chief whip says Mutharika ‘walking the talk’
Chief whip for United Democratic Front (UDF) Lilina Patel has backed President Peter Mutharika claims that he is fulfilling his electoral promises, saying indeed one year in power the President is...
View ArticleUladi says its ‘zero-development’ budget: Malawi maize in the hands of...
People’s Party (PP) leader in Parliament Uladi Mussa has said government is not only implementing a zero-aid financial plan but a “zero-development” budget. Malawi’s major donors are withholding budget...
View ArticleMPs calls MSB sale ‘most heinous corruption scandal’ in Malawi: Govt wants...
Malawi Congress Party lawmaker Peter Dimba picked the controversial recapitalisation of state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) to parliament and described it as one of the most heinous corruption...
View ArticleNankhumwa claims Joyce Banda killed Bingu: Calls for JB arrest, Malawi govt...
Malawi’s Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture, Kondwani Nankhumwa has asked President Peter Mutharika to commission special investigation over the death of his elder brother, the former...
View ArticleMalawian wins seat in UK elections: Clement Chunga
Former chairman of Malawi Association UK, Clement Chunga, has won a seat as a councillor in the British general lections held last week Thursday which saw Prime Minister David Cameron returning to 10...
View Article‘Beware of gossipmongers’: Thyolo chief advises Mutharika against breaking...
The only Lhomwe chief who is also a right hand man for President Peter Mutharika on Saturday stunned people who gathered at Ndata Farm for Bingu wa Mutharika’s memorial service when he took time...
View ArticleState of flux: Muckraking Malawi President Mutharika’s SONA
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” -Soren Kierkegaard President Peter Mutharika used tens of pages full of thousands of words and figures containing dreams, hopes,...
View ArticleJudge Kenyatta Nyirenda OKs Malawi Savings Bank sale: Protests set for Friday
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda has ruled in favour of government to proceed with the controversial sale of State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) but the MSB employees, through their lawyer Lusungu...
View ArticleJoyce Banda scoffs at Mutharika’s murder accusations: Political vandetta
Former president Joyce Banda, who returns to Malawi this month after being outside the country since she lost the May 20 2014 elections, has said Peter Mutharika’s administration are plotting against...
View ArticleUndule now ‘man of God’: Insists gays need protection in Malawi
Former fierce human rights activist Undule Mwakasungula, who went into oblivion after making a bold decision to serve God, has maintained his earlier position on same sex marriages, saying the LGBTI...
View ArticleViolence resurfaces at Kamuzu Stadium: Surestream frustrate Red Lions in...
Ugly scenes of violence returned to haunt Malawi football on Sunday spoiling an exciting TNM Super League match after a 2-2 draw game involving Surestream FC and Red Lions at Kamuzu Stadium in...
View ArticleMalawi student shortlisted for global innovation award
Samson Fiado, a third year Business Information Systems student at The Polytechnic, University of Malawi is one of the 76 finalists from 37 countries worldwide in the 2015 Global Innovation through...
View ArticlePaladin rejects court order claim by Wavisanga over discharging of treated water
Uranium miner at the Kayelekera in northern Malawi, Paladin, has rejected a claim by the Karonga-based activist, Wavisunga Silungwe, that he has obtained a High Court injunction restraining the company...
View ArticleJB at high-level ‘Global Conference’ in Argentina
Malawi’s former President Joyce Banda has said the serious challenges women face, especially in the developing countries, include being caught up in the vicious cycle of poverty resulting from lack of...
View ArticleMay the real Mr. President please stand up!
The Malawian body politic is pretty predictable, even by a toddler. It is a zigzag street where daggers between government and opposition are always drawn. When government does this, opposition does...
View ArticleBingu ‘plotters’ were against APM, JB – The ‘JB project’ contents show as...
A document titled ‘JB Project’ which Malawi Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture Kondwani Nankhumwa cited to call upon President Peter Mutharika to commission a special inquiry over the death...
View ArticleGlobal Fund tells Malawi to raise K3.8bn for ARVs
The Global Fund – an international financing institution based in Geneva, Switzerland with mandate to mobilise national and international resources to support countries to fight against HIV and Aids,...
View ArticleUDF says won’t resolve differences with Lucius in media
United Democratic Front (UDF) has said it will not resolve the misunderstanding with its former parliamentary leader Lucius Banda in the media but by using established systems in the party. UDF...
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