By Charles Kufa and Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday said he will set up Presidential Committee on Dialogue to ensure there is dialogue with stakeholders dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation. The President made the call […]
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika urged African states on Monday to allow opposition groups to express their views, three weeks after anti-government protests in his own country left 19 dead. But Mutharika also made a dig at his own opposition, saying they appeared to be aiming to cause instability. “Let us enhance participatory democracy if […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Zambian President Rupiah Banda has said there is nothing wrong about being a Malawian, saying it is an African country. Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) party of Michael Sata, the anticipated main contender against President Banda in the September 20 polls, dragged the Zambian leader’s alleged Malawian paternal ancestry dispute to the […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika wants former presidential press officer Chikumbutso Mtumodzi to return to the State House and resume his former position replacing Albert Mungomo, Nyasa Times understands. Ironically Mungomo replaced Mutharika’s longest serving and effective Press Officer Mtumodzi, who is currently the deputy principal secretary in the Ministry of […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes The battle between students and senior dons at the embattled Mzuzu University (Mzuni) is far from abating and there is no loser and winner in sight. The latest is the intent by the acting Vice Chancellor Dr Orton Vunda Msiska to sue the Mzuzu University Student Representative Council (MUSREC) for defamation. […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Reserve Bank of Malawi has devalued the kwacha currency by about 10 percent against the U.S. dollar to 165, it has been reported. According to a Reuters report, unnamed bank source said on Monday that Kwacha has been devalued, citing a directive, although the new rate is still well short […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes The Hunger Project have withdrawn the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger from President Bingu wa Mutharika fter the Malawi Diaspora Forum (MDF), based in the United Kingdom, developed a petition in which it asked The Hunger Project office in New York not to award the Malawian […]
By Andrew Nyayah, NyasaTimes The National Youth Council of Malawi (NYCOM) says it can facilitate constructive engagement between youths and President Bingu wa Mutharika in case of any pressing issues and concerns as other quarters are contemplating to get to the streets this month. “Our President has invited us time and again to make a […]
Malawian national who had gone missing had been found dead in a hotel room with a suicide note believed to have been written by him. Eric Thindwa of Rumphi went missing in the first week of August and an alert was sent out to fellow Malawians in South Africa by a member of their community. […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika has invited to Sanjika Palace machete-wielding DPP Youth Cadets – a youth wing of the ruling party – were seen driving around the city of Blantyre symbolically sharpening their weapons against the tarmac and about 1000 selected vendors from various markets Also invited to Sanjika are the thugs […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times An hour long ‘Straight Talk’ interview on Capital Radio on Thursday evening that featured state vice president Joyce Banda has been described as “enthralling” by an ardent follower of the programme and Blantyre-based civil rights activist, Living Kalimanjira. Christening the host of the programme Brian Banda “Malawi’s Tim Sebastian” Kalimanjira […]
By Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi Diaspora Forum (MDF) a consortium of diaspora Malawians in the United Kingdom currently hosting ‘Agenda for Change’ meetings across Great Britain aimed at strategising and charting a way forward for Malawi’s ailing economic crisis and the never-ending political catastrophes will on Saturday August 13th hold yet another conference in […]
By Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi Police officers are the highest hit professional workers in the country by the HIV and AIDS Pandemic, only trailing behind commercial sex workers. The prevalence rate of HIV among the country’s law enforcers rampantly continue to rise with the force losing its workforce to the pandemic with more police […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika will install son to late Inkosi Ya Makosi Gomani 4, schoolboy Prince Mswati Gomani to the throne of Ngoni leader on October 5, Nyasa Times has learnt. Inkosi Ya Makosi Gomani is the paramount chief for all Ngoni people from the central region district of Ntcheu […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Before being fired as governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary-general on Sunday, Bintony Kutsaira had chaired a meeting last Friday at Civic Offices in Lilongwe where it was agreed that the Malawi Police and the Army were too soft on the anti-government demonstrators on July 20, 2011 and that here was […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi’s estranged Vice-President Joyce Banda, who was Foreign Affairs Minister when the country switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan after 41 years to Mainland China in December 2007, said Beijing has put its marking the country in terms of infrastructure development. A memorandum of understanding covering industry, trade and investment was […]
By Charles Mkula, Newstime Africa Civil Society groups in Malawi Thursday made fresh appeals for genuine dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation before they take the citizens back into the streets on August 17. Speaking at press conference in Lilongwe, Civil Society […]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has sent a team to Malawi to meet with the country’s political leaders after deadly anti-government riots last month, an official said Thursday. “We are concerned about what is happening in Malawi. Lives have been lost and we hope that all parties involved will soon solve their differences,” SADC […]