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Prophet Bushiri warns Malawi President Mutharika: ‘Stop using me as a shield to divert people’s attention’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Leader and founder of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church, Prophet Bushiri has strongly warned Peter Mutharika led-government to concentrate on improving the welfare of Malawians other than spending time in character assisination campaign against him and his ministry to divert attention. Bushiri reaction comes after various false accusations against the ‘Major 1’ manufactured reportedly by […]

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Malawi minister Henry Mussa denies corruption allegations: Pleads innocence over K577bn cashgate

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Minister of Labour and man power Development, Henry Mussa, has exonorated himself from K577billion cashgate link after  release of  forensic audit conducted by RSM Risk Assurance LLP of the UK covering 2009 to 2014 . Mussa was reacting to reports going viral in both print and electronic media alleging that seven cabinet Ministers are believed to […]

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Parliament rejects MP’s evidence over sale of Lake Malawi to Motal Engil

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi  Parliament on Tuesday afternoon rejected a newspaper report as evidence on claims by Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire that the government had sold Lake Malawi to a Portuguese construction company, Mota Engil. First deputy speaker Esther Mcheka Chileka said the weight of evidence could not be accepted  in the Chamber because it was a […]

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Opposition cries over spilt milk on Malawi Land bill

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Opposition members of parliament returned to the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon after a brief protest walk out just to find the government had passed the controversial Land Bill in their absence. They fiercely demanded that the passing of the bill be reversed, saying they had amendments to make. Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua and other […]

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Inside Malawi Land Bill: Law society says approval is legal despite opposition boycott

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Opposition parliamentarians on Tuesday morning stormed out of parliament in protest against some clauses in a Land bill but this move proved imprudent as the government easily passed the bill without any challenge. The opposition legislators and the government were at each other’s throat since parliament started sitting at 9:30 am. The opposition wanted to […]

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Malawi in forensic audit exercise in city, district councils: Kasungul CEO Stewart Ngoka on forced leave

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Government says it has sent auditors to all city and district councils before releasing this year’s funding allocation. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe said councils which misappropriated last year’s funds will not get the allocation unless every penny is accounted for. “We will prosecute all officers who embezzled the money,” said Gondwe. Parliament approved huge sums […]

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Malawi developing legislative scheme to save ex-convicts

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Malawi Law Commission is in the process of developing legislation that will save ex-convicts from stigmatization in different ways. Special Law commission on the development of legislation on spent convictions has started holding consultative meetings regarding the matter. Currently Malawi does not have a legislative scheme that deals with spent convictions. The rationale for […]

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Malawi minister cautions MPs over remarks on foreigners grabbing land

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Lands minister Atupele Muluzi has cautioned legislators to comment with sensitivity that foreigners were grabbing land with the aid corrupt government officials. Muluzi said this on Monday afternoon during a heated debate  in Parliament on Land Bill as the legislators said foreigners have large chunks of land when owners of the land, Malawians, are landless. […]

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Malawi population at 17.6 million ‘scary’: Mark population day in muted style

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi on Monday silently commemorated the World Population Day as population boom continues to negatively affect social services. Population expert Dr Collins Kalua said there was need to sensitize the youth, who are the bulk of the population in Malawi, to delay marriages as way of slowing the population growth. “The best way to delay […]

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Over 300 Mozambican refugees refuse to relocate in Malawi

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Government and United Nations officials in Malawi are helpless after over 300 Mozambican refugees refused to be relocated to Luwani Refugee camp in Mwanza from Kayisi in the same district. UNHCR Monique Koko said she does not understand why the refugees are refusing to relocate to a camp which has all the facilities including a […]

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Madonna meets President Mutharika, vows support for more Malawi projects

By Nyasa Times Reporter

American pop star Mdonna on Monday met President Peter Mutharika at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe a day after she inspected construction works for a miultimillion dollar, two storey magnifiscent and the first ever padriatric ward and intensive care unit which she is funding   at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Presidential Press Secretary Mgeme Kalirani […]

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Mutharika under fire for chartering plane as Malawi economy is teetering  on a brink of total collapse

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi President Peter Mutharika has come under fire for chartering a plane to get a personal honarary degree when he is preaching austerity amid abject poverty, acute food shortages and a sinking economy – prompting analysts and opposition to observe that the DPP administration is failing to “rig the economy”. Mutharika chartered a South African […]

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MCP MP complain of delayed justice: ‘Set Muluzi free, case was politically motivated’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Lilongwe South member of Parliament (MP) Peter Dimba (Malawi Congress Party-MCP)  has omplained about the long delay in dispensation of justice and blamed it on political interference. Dimba speaking in parliament cited the K1.7 billion corruption case involving former president Bakili Muluzi as “a very classic example” of delayed justice in Malawi. “The case has […]

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Speaker cautions on ‘hearsay’ reporting on K577bn Cashgate

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya has said the Malawi media should avoid “hearsay” reporting on the K577 billion Cashgate preliminary audit report. “The media has responsibility to inform the public, all what we are saying is we should inform the public responsibly,” the Speaker said in Parliament after speculations have been rife that […]

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Malawi Police deny Mpemba brutality claims: Deceased didn’t understand suspended sentence

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi Police have denied claims of brutality afte people of Mpemba in Blantyre on Sunday left the body of a 51-year-old man on a veranda of a shop owned by Senior Chief Somba’s daughter at Mpemba Trading Centre in protest of what they termed police torture. The deceased, identified as Piyasoni Magombo of Katsalam’bande Village […]

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Chakwera calls for action on Malawi ‘grand corruption’ scandal: No impunity

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The opposition Malawi Congress Party President, Dr Lazarus Chakwera has advised the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to quickly act on t the network responsible for biggest financial scandal in Malawi’s history. Known as “cashgate”,  after there have been fears that about seven ministers who are implicared will escape justice. Chakwera said  those involved in the […]

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