TNM Super League action will only return to the pitch on Sunday with no game on Saturday to allow Flames supporters to go and cheer their team as they take on the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. According to a member of the Super League of Malawi (Sulom) […]
About 20 children from Malawi suffering from congenital heart diseases will get free treatment in India, thanks to the Rotary Club of Chandigarh. The Hindu reported that the first batch of four such children has arrived in India. According to the Rotary club the offer to provide free treatment was made in April this year, […]
Malawi is one of the 33 Least Developed Countries (LDC) in Africa which has increased to 49 from 24 in the 1970s. Factors that have qualified most of the African countries in the category include low income based on gross national income (GNI) per capita (a 3 year average; human assets weakness based on a […]
The leader of the New Republican Party (NRP) veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba has been given MK3 million from DPP campaign director and his close friend Ken Zikhale Ng’oma to campaign against the popular People’s Party (PP) candidate Chidumba Mkandawire in the Rumphi Central by-elections to be held on September 6, 2011, Nyasa Times can reveal. […]
The Vice President Joyce Banda has kick-started campaign for his People’s Party candidate in the Rumphi Central Constituency by-elections scheduled for September 06, 2011. Speaking to thousands of people who gathered at Mzokoto in the district where she addressed a campaign rally, Banda said Rumphi district deserves special recognition from government as the district is […]
Malawi national team coach Kinnah Phiri says the question of whether captain Peter Mponda will feature in the crucial 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tunisia on Saturday is in the hands of the player himself and the team’s medical staff. Mponda arrived in the country on Tuesday and trained with the rest of […]
Malawi coach Kinnah Phiri says he is disappointed with South African club Celtic’s delay in releasing defender Limbikani Mzava to join camp ahead of 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tunisia on Saturday. Mzava was expected to jet in on Tuesday with Mponda and Spain- based striker Robin Ngalande but failed to make it. […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential hopeful Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika joined Muslims in the country as they marked the end of month-long Ramadan (fasting) and donated assorted items to Muslims in districts of Salima, Mchinji, Mangochi and Thyolo. Some of the items donated are bags of rice, cooking oil, sugar, soap, lotion and cash. […]
A contractor has abandoned the unfinished Mzuzu Flea market following disagreements over payments with the Mzuzu City Council, Nyasa Times has established. The contractor, Lembuka Building Contractors, left the project a month ago after the council refused to pay him. Mzuzu City Council officials on Tuesday waited in vain for the contractor to come for […]
A haematologist based at College of Medicine in Blantyre, Dr. Yohannie Billy Mlombe, has obtained a court injunction restraining organisers of the September 21 nationwide demonstrations in Malawi from protesting against government’s economic and governance failures. Lawyer Christopher Chiphwanya confirmed that on August 23 he obtained an injunction on behalf of his client Mlombe who […]
For one retired midwife, seeing too many mothers die during childbirth led her to quit her job and take on the third highest infant mortality rates in the world. She could be considered Malawi’s own Florence Nightingale. Using the most basic equipment, Charity Salina has single handedly delivered more than 4,000 babies and recorded no […]
Muslims in Malawi on today (August 31) join their counterparts around the world in celebrating celebrating Eid al-Fitr (the festival of fast-breaking). Eid is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan the Islamic holy month of fasting. According to the national coordinator of the Malawi Islamic Bureau, Sheik Dinala Chabulika, the moon was sighted […]
Ahead of the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier between Malawi and Tunisia, the country’s musicians have teamed up for a morale booster gig in Blantyre where the match will take place this Saturday. The show, which has been dubbed ‘Flames Woza Friday’, will be at Chez Ntemba night club, one of the hottest entertainment […]
An airbrush by President Bingu Wa Mutharika on management of the reconstituted Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) which was led by Director General Bright Malopa has created a kids play over people’s future inviting scores of lawsuits in the process. Mutharika summoned Malopa, Chimwemwe Banda (Chairperson of Transition Committee), Felistus Chikusilo Director of Finance, Mateyu Controller […]
Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba has accused State Vice President Joyce Banda of “moral; inconsistence” for demanding an explanation from President Bingu wa Mutharika over his war-mongering remarks. Banda has said she would soon be writing the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue, Anglican retired Bishop Bernard Malango to seek a clarification from Mutharika. But […]
An all sector crippling national wide strike by civil servants is looming, Nyasa Times has learnt. Impeccable sources have confided in Nyasa Times that the Malawi Civil Servants Union has now failed to keep the impending strike under wraps. “It has been an issue that the union representing all the civil servants in the country […]
While the Malawi government continues to play down the fact that it its broke, Nyasa Times investigations can reveal that some World Bank and Department for International Development (DFID) funded projects have stalled for the past 3 months due to non payment of funds to consultants and contractors by the treasury following aid freeze. According […]