Malawi national team, the Flames, saw their hopes of qualifying for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon/Equatorial Guinea 2012 dashed in the air after they were held to a 2-2 draw by Chad in their final qualifying group match. Malawi needed to win to seal automatic qualification at the expense of Tunisia who had […]
“The Info in this publication was put together by an intensive interview with Duncan Phiri in the presence of several Polytechnic lecturers and interviews with several Poly students. Let it be known that if the remaining members of Chasowa’s click are hurt in any way, it is the people implicated inthis document trying to silence […]
One of Malawi’s leading cultural groups, Mulhako Wa Alhomwe has changed the date of this year’s annual festival celebration, from the 25th to 23rd October, 2011, Nyasa Times can reveal. The organization, had initially announced that the celebrations will take place on Tuesday, the 25th of October. However, after an afterthought, the organization has decided […]
Lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, has said this suspension from the UDF party will not derail the ‘agenda for change’ campaign he is advancing for a better Malawi. UDF suspended Atupele after he announced he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections. “I will not relent […]
The Youth Association for Democracy in Malawi, (YADEMA) has demanded that Malawi Police should be thoroughly probed on the death of Robert Chasowa a death of a university student who may have been killed due to his anti-government activism. Police ruled the death a suicide but an autopsy report indicated that he was beaten to […]
Head of the Anglican Church in the world Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams says Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has expressed commitment to dialogue with the civil society organisations (CSOs). The Archbishop said this after meeting President Mutharika on Friday at Sanjika Palace at the start of his visit to the Church of the […]
The Motofotofo True African Queen will start the 2011 edition of the beauty pageant for the big and fluffy women in the central region on October 28. According to the reigning Miss Matofotofo, Florence Banda, who is organising this year’s event, the event has attracted about ten women to contest but said they are will […]
The organizers of this year’s Miss Malawi beauty pageant has assured the nation the contest is still on course with Blantyre auditions slated for this weekend. Controversy rocked the pageantry a couple of weeks ago when one of the sponsors, Mnena Gaming, pulled out following disagreement on the voting process the gaming company wanted to […]
Despite the hostile reception that has been given to the Malawi national soccer team in Chad, coach Kinnah Phiri and captain Peter Mponda are optimistic of victory on Saturday in their swim or sink Africa Cup of Nations last qualifier game in N’djamena. Speaking to Nyasa Times in a telephone interview from Chad, Kinnah says […]
Acting president of former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) Friday Jumbe has criticised lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, for announcing that he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections, saying it is a destructive agenda. Jumbe speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk programme aired on […]
Religious women rank high on the list of women who opt for unsafe abortions in Malawi, a Ministry of Health report says. According to The Weekend Times the report is as a result of a research, the first of its kind in Malawi, which was carried out in 2009 in conjunction with UNFPA but was […]
The donor community has expressed grave concerns about several recent incidents of “politically-motivated violence” in Malawi and asks the government to set an independent enquiry into the mysterious death of University of Malawi student activist. Robert Chasowa, 25 – a final year Mechanical Engineering student, was found dead at the Polytechnic on campus on September […]
Malawi’s new publication hits the streets. The Sky Newspaper has been designed to propagate a campaign in support for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2014 torch bearer Peter Mutharika’s candidature. The broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in South Africa, is being run by Noel Masangwi, a DPP regional governor for the south. The maiden publication is […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has claimed the country is “changing from worse to better” despite complaints that Malawi is facing the worst economic crisis with acute shortages of fuel, electricity and foreign currency. “Malawi is getting better every day,” President Mutharika claimed in a recording of the BBC’s Africa Have Your Say aired Thursday evening. […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has denied that he declared Britain High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet- persona non grata after a confidential memo which criticised and questioned his leadership was leaked. “We did not expel him,” Mutharika said on BBC Have Your Say programme aired on Thursday. Mutharika – without shame at all – claimed Her Majesty’s envoy […]
Deputy publicity secretary for the former governing United Democratic Front (UDF), Ken Msonda, has reacted with anger to assertions that some of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) members are convicts and as such they cannot hold any executive office. One of the UDF NEC members, Gerald Mponda, is quoted in the Thursday’s edition of […]
Malawi’s Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo will have no choice other than recussing himself from two appeal cases where the University Council of Malawi (Unima) Council is asking the Supreme Court to quash two lower court determinations that four fired Chancellor College lecturers be reinstated. The four, associate professor Blessings Chinsinga, Professor Garton Kamchedzera, Franz Amin […]