Published: August 27, 2010
Wa Mutharika assures upgrade for Chipata-Mchinji railway link |
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Malawi President Professor Bingu Wa Mutharika has said his government would ensure that 810 Kilometres stretch of the Chipata-Mchinji railway link in Malawi is fully rehabilitated and upgraded to provide connectivity to the port. Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) reports that Mutharika was speaking on Friday at the commissioning of the Chipata/Mchiji railway. The Chipata-Mchinji [...]
Published: August 25, 2010
Plot to attack outspoken DPP youth chair uncovered |
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Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has plotted to physically attack outspoken chairman of the Progressive Democratic Youth Movement (Prodeyom), Nyasa Times can reveal. A member of the Southern Region Committee of the DPP confirmed the plot and said that two of the thugs are just known as Mandere and Charles. Prodeyom national chairperson Joseph Chikwemba [...]
Published: August 25, 2010
Marginalizing the north |
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A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of having lunch with one of Africa’s well known development economists. Our conversations dwelt on the political and ethnic marginalization and conflicts in the Niger Delta, Northern Uganda, South Sudan, Kenyan East Valley, Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, and of course, the Northern Region in Malawi. I [...]
Published: August 25, 2010
Peter Mutharika causes traffic jam in Blantyre |
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Minister of Education Science and Technology, Peter Mutharika caused traffic jam in the city of Blantyre as he traveled to College of Medicine Sports Complex on Tuesday to inspect the place before Wednesday’s function presided over by President Bingu wa Mutharika. Peter Mutharika travelled to the college in his capacity as Minister of Education but [...]
Published: August 25, 2010
Mulhakho gets radio licence |
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The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has issued two radio licences and two others for television station. The regulator’s spokesman Zadziko Mankhambo told Capital Radio on Wednesday that the authority has awarded two radio licenses to Mulhakho and Galaxy, and two others for television stations. They emerged successful from a group of hundreds of organisations [...]
Published: August 23, 2010
Bingu orders China to finish Thyolo University by 2014 |
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President Bingu wa Mutharika has directed the Chinese government to build the Malawi University of Science and Technology in Thyolo by 2014. Mutharika’s directive means that the Thyolo University will have to be prioritized at the expense of other projects like the modern stadium which has since been ignored. Construction for the new modern stadium [...]
Published: August 23, 2010
Court grants bail to Rev Nyondo: DPP govt condemned |
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Mzuzu Magistrate Court on Monday morning granted bail to Livingstonia Synod general-secretary, Levi Nyondo who was arrested last Friday following remarks he made at the burial ceremony of the late Prof. Moses Chirambo. Rev Nyondo’s lawyer Ralph Kasambara applied for bail in a jamp-packed court with sympathizers. Magistrate Justus Kishindo granted bail with conditions that [...]
Published: August 22, 2010
Release Rev Nyondo, drop charges --Aford |
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Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) has demanded unconditional release of Reverend Levi Njombole Nyondo, the General Secretary of the Livingstonia Synod. Rev Nyondo was arrested last Friday in Mzuzu following remarks he made at the burial ceremony of the late Prof. Moses Chirambo. Aford spokesman Johnstone Langa told Nyasa Times through a statement that the party [...]
Published: August 22, 2010
Vuwa bash northerners as CCAP hold vigil for arrested cleric |
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Minister of Information and Civic Education, Symon Vuwa Kuanda said there should no sympathy for northern region people who make irresponsible statements that will land them in trouble. Kaunda speaking at a function which President Bingu wa Mutharika presented a K4 million three-bedroom house to veteran politician Jomo Chikwakwa in Mulanje said the north should [...]
Published: August 22, 2010
Have your say: No freedom after speech in Malawi |
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Malawi government is hell-bent to stifle freedom of expression in a bid to ensure President Bingu wa Mutharika is succeeded by his younger brother, Peter Mutharika without dissent. The state security forces arrested Livingstonia CCAP Synod general-secretary, Rev Levi Nyondo for a speech he made at a funeral of ex-minister Prof Moses Chirambo. Police is [...]
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