Malawi refers lake border dispute with Tanzania to UN
Malawi has formally protested to the international community including United Nations (UN), government has confirmed.
The border of Lake Malawi , which is potentially rich in oil and gas, is a subject of conflict between Malawi and ith Tanzania .
Malawi disputes Tanzania’s claim to half the lake – Africa’s third biggest.
Tanzania is promoting a new map showing that the east African country owns part of the Lake Malawi.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Corporation has advised international community to disregard Tanzania’s new map.
“Malawi government would not have just remained silent because that would mean acknowledgeing the purported new map,” said spokespeeson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Corporation.
The neighbours have disagreed over their border since independence, and report that the lake had vast oil and gas reserves has reignited the ongoing dispute over the boundaries on Lake Malawi.
Malawi has awarded oil exploration licences to international firms such as Hamra Oil of United Arab Emirates to search for oil in the lake, which Tanzania calls Lake Nyasa.
Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa has advised the officials to disregard the “half truth”s by Tanzania by rejecting use of any document bearing such misinformation.
“Malawi will never, and has never, at any time, acquiesced to Tanzania’s unwarranted and unjustified territorial claims,” Mkondiwa said.
Mkondiwa added:“Malawi government would like to call upon all officials in government ministries, departments, and agencies to be alert on this matter and to continue rejecting and refusing to use all such maps appearing in any form or media including calendars, diaries, official documentation or other documents for any purpose or business.”
Meanwhile, Malawi wants the international community, including the UN to resolve the dispute.
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Mighty Tanzania shall take over whole of Malawi by 2050. (Its a secret, don’t kiss and tell). We are coming!
What If Tanzanian decide to redirect the Rivers that feed lake Nyasa and create its own man made lake , do you think the River will exist any more? TANZANIANS ARE KEEPING THE LAKE BY NOT CUTTING TREES TO ALLOW RIVERS FLOW TO LAKE NYASA. MAKING IT AHALF IS AN OBVIOUS DEAL.
if tanzania wants to make any claims to lake malawi,that will only mean one thing: the second partition of Africa by “I don’t know”. these boundaries were done by colonialists and,not by africans themselves. Ta
tanzania’s claim is plain stupid and dangerous to all african countries who accepted those boundaries unwillingly though settled for such for peaceful sake. they have gone bananas. deport their people as well.
Tanzania haitakubai inchi kama Malawi kuchokoza Lake Nyasa. Whoever will dare to attack Tanzania will see how both Lilongwe, Blantyre and other towns will fail down in one day. Be careful
Lets just leave this lake to the Tanzanian may be we can also benefit from them, we Malawi must bussy with politic, we are tired of hearing that our lake has fuel & gas until when
NKHANI YILI APA NDIYAKUTI A BOMA MWANYANYA KUBA,MULIBIZE KUBA NDALAMA ZA BOMA MMALO MOTI INUSO MUKHALE BIZE KUPANGA INVEST MU MILITARYEQUIPMENTS.AZANU AZIWA KUTI MULIBE KALIKONSE.TAONANI TANZANIA POMPA POMPA APA IMALONJA MA HELICOPITER OPANGA OKHA PAMENE TIKADALI NDI OMWE AJA AKAMUZU.
nyasa times chithunzi cha mkaziyo mudachitenga bumbu litanyawa chani? kukamwa ngati wadzadza ndi nyere choncho mkaziyo, atolankhani ndi chifukwa chani mumakhala odolola zimakhala ziwanda kapena uhule, mumudziwe yesu wa ku nazarette
You are such an idiot
If the so called president fails to solve problems crippling country universities, do you think he has the know-how to tackle a border wrangle of this magnitude? That’s what a country pays for electing dimwits to challenging positions
The issue about Lake Malawi border with Tanzania is non-negotiable. I am repeating, the issue about Lake Malawi border with Tanzania is non-negotiable. Why is that Tanzania is claiming its portion this time around? It’s because of weak leadership. Tanzania has noticed that we don’t have strong leadership which is stemming from failure to resolve domestic issues i.e. university fee hike, recruitment of doctors and nurses, judiciary salaries, alleged 7 rotten cabinet ministers implicated in cash gate, tractor gate, Embassy gate, etc. The best Malawi can do is to prepare for war. Government should press for an advert calling for all physically fit retired officers and men in (MDF) to to be on standby for any contact with TZ. It should also start training young men as militias to be enlisted on security national service . As one of the retired MDF officers but still physically fit, I am prepared to die to my mother Malawi. Ask JZU, Louis Chimango and others how they handled the issue when Mozambique shot down a private Malawian plane in its Mozambican territory somewhere in Villa Domwe.
Just negotiate.We are brothers and sister in God.
Between oil mining on the lake and giving our neighbor Tanzania their fair share of the lake, I am 1000% for the latter!
piter munthalika sanga titha ndize olopango’no because he is buzy with cashget .it’s malawians to ask Jzu Tembo & Bakili muluzi this two can help us because pitala munthalika he don’t know anything about history of Malawi he was in America along ago.
Only God knows – Malawians do not love their country. Not surprising that some Malawians are in support of Tanzania, as it happened with Mozambiqur on Shire Zambezi Waterway Project. We saw Kasambara and JB supporting Gebuza not to allow Malawi to navigate through Zambezi river. Malawians can also sacrifice their own son/mother/father/daughter/sister/brother for the sake of foreigners, and they expect Boma to even feed themselves and their families.
Kamuzu anatipweteka kooooooopsa – anadzala mbeu yodalira ena in everything, including feeding children omwe tabereka tokha.
There is no bilateral or multilateral partner who is going to help Malawi on this, these dialogues are just a waist of time, nobody is going to hear us out, if my neighbor is giving me sleepless night and he doesn’t stop, i would rather take on him head on, negotiations later even if i am not all that powerful but a threat alone will shiver his pants, when are we going to stop begging? how come we are begging for our own property our own land, God given lake no no no. this nonsense has to stop, do not launch a complaint anywhere else, they wont help us, let face them akuzolowera, “its not the type of equipment you have that can win a fight NO but the skill of your men in uniform that they poses is what matters”.
The Lake Nyasa issue is a thing Malawi and Malawian dont take it seriously take this:
-Tanzanian MP Mhaiki was requesting Nyerere to request Malawi to share half of lake (James Mayall)
-After refusal Nyerere then conceeded and started claiming, not requesting half of the lake
-Then the issue started in 2013 again, not requested Malawi to dialogue by having Retired heads of state. Do the retired heads of state have capacity to resolve the issue?
-read the document :Where Politics Border Law by Dr. Chris Mahony, and other unbiased international lawyers you will learn that TZ does not have even an inch of Lake Nyasa or Malawi.
Kodi uja amkanena kuti ndikakhala pampando ndizathetsa nkhani imeneyi ya nyanja komanso kukatsekula Nsanje Port alikuti panopa?
Peter Muthalika and your boys please stop doing politics and work for those who elected / employed you. You are busy listening to gossips of your party and busy quarrelling with your vice, yet Tanzania is busy robbing the lake from Malawi, Tanzania is busy arresting / deporting your people in /from Tanzania. While you are busy with politics, next thing we will hear is the lake is completely for Tanzania. You are busy sleeping in office sir instead of working.