Umodzi Youth Organisation has embarked on HIV and Aids sensitization campaign in Blantyre Kabula constituency to divert the youth from promiscuous behaviour to prevent contracting HIV. The campaign started with an open day at Mbayani Maternal Clinic recently. Umodzi Youth Organisation programme director Munyaradzi Moffat said the youth in the constituency are at high risk […]
“…When a policy goal to save lives co-exists alongside other policy objectives, it is suggested that the duty of human rights activists is not to ensure that governments have pure motives but to monitor their performance closely to ensure that the humanitarian dimension of their interventions is not corrupted or subordinated to other political interests….” […]
The Declaration of Assets law is just a rubber stamp in Malawi, which is there to hoodwink people because no one has access to the records and there is no enforcement mechanism. Section 88 A (1) of the Constitution stipulates that the President and members of cabinet must disclose all their assets, liabilities and business […]
Britain has clarified that it is not putting gay-rights strings to its development aid to Malawi, saying they are looking at human rights in general and also disclosed they have increased support to the country. Head of the southern Africa section at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Aidan Liddle said London has not […]
Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progress Party (DPP) senior officials and the Communist Party of China (CPC) held a meeting in Beijing during which the two sides vowed to further strengthen their ties. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, DPP was led by Secretary General Wakuda Kamanga durig the meeting Kamanga spoke highly of China-Malawi ties, which […]
Malawi Government is reported to have designed a response to the Hague based International Criminal Court (ICC) following a request to submit an explanation on why it failed to arrest Sudanese ruler Omar Hassan al-Bashir during his recent visit to the country. Bashir, facing ten counts of war charges, crimes against humanity and genocide he […]
United Nations resident representative in Malawi, Richard Dictus, says Malawi needs a “different thinking “and a “sustained effort” to resolve the political and economic turmoil. Dictus, whose UN is facilitating dialogue between government and the civil society leaders, made the remarks on Brian Banda’s Capital FM Straight Talk programme. He noted that the country was […]
Malawi Government through one its senior strategists has admitted yet again that the ongoing fuel shortages are far from over. Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment Goodall Gondwe, who was largely responsible for Malawi’s economic turn-around between 2004 to 2009 as Finance Minister, made the confession to Malawi’s local paper this week. Gondwe said […]
Global experts on environment and development have realized that agriculture can be a critical tool to solve problems associated with climate change and weather variability in many counties. This realization comes in the wake that the world population will grow from current 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050 with most of the increase occurring […]
Leaders of the dialogue group between the Malawian government and civil society have backed suggestions to repeal unpopular laws during the forthcoming session of Parliament. There have been calls from opposition parties, media, civil society including a social justice and advocacy arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi –CCJP to repeal the bad laws enacted […]
Despite trying to boost its production capacity and continuous strategies on how to satisfy local demand for soft drinks, Carlsberg Malawi has yet again miserably failed to adequately quench the public’s thirsts. A holding of Coca-cola Malawi, Southern Bottlers (Sobo) and Malawi Distilleries Limited (MDL), Carlsberg Malawi has this time quickly attributed the problem to […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested three ADMARC employees for allegedly selling the 2011/2012 subsidized fertilizer at K1000 per 50kg bag instead of the government set price of K500. Southern Region Deputy Police spokesperson Edna Ligowe said the three were arrested at Nancholi ADMARC depot after getting a tip from disgruntled buyers. Ligowe said the three […]
Gogo Lilian Maelenga, who celebrated her 100th anniversary last month died on Monday, October, 31, 2011 and was laid to rest on Wednesday, 2 November 2011 at Chiyendausiku village in Balaka district. She has died just a month after celebrating in style her 100th anniversary that started with the Holy Mass at Montfort Media Limited […]
Malawi government has finally procured viral vaccines to treat foot and mouth disease that has hit the lower shire particularly Chikhwawa district. The outbreak was reported in the area late September this year and put lives of over 70,000 cattle are at great risk of contracting the disease. Principal Secretary for Agriculture in the Ministry […]
Malawi’s music icon Lucius Banda, fondly known as ‘Soldier’, will next month tour the Republic of South Africa (RSA) where he is expected to hold live shows. The award-winning musician, who is currently selling his latest album titled ‘Life’, will be accompanied by his Zembani Band and Lilongwe-based multitalented singer Lulu. Soldier and Lulu will […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has decided to take a month-long holiday in Australia after the end of the Commonwealth summit while the people of Malawi struggle with fuel shortage, forex scarcity and economic turmoil, Nyasa Times has learnt. The Malawi ruler according to top sources he has pencilled in the return home on December […]
Blantyre Printing and Publishing (BP&P) was nearly closed by tax collecting body Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on Friday last week for failing to pay tax arrears amounting to almost K120 million but was saved by an injunction at the High Court. MRA were ready to pounce on BP&P, which also own Blantyre newspapers Limited (BNL) which publishes four newspapers, […]
The World Bank has made it clear that for Malawi to start receiving budgetary support the Bingu wa Mutharika administration should address concerns about his political and economic leadership. The donors are concerned about threats to media freedom, governance, deterioarating human rights situations and the “shrinking political space”. The lender, which is holding back $40 […]