United Democratic Front (UDF) presidential running mate Frank Mwenifumbo says, if voted into office on May 21 2019, they will ban tobacco buyers from producing the leaf, arguing the practice disadvantages smallholder farmers in the country. Mwenifumbo feared that maintaining the existing policies where tobacco buying companies are at liberty to also produce will have […]
Quasi-religious organization, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has organized national peace prayers this Saturday which will see President Peter Mutharika and his estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima, political allies-turned-foes, are set to meet face-to-face as other sworn political arch-rivals will be sharing the same prayer for the sake of Malawi before the watershed May 21 2019 […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will on May 2 conduct dry test for election results management system. MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa said during the exercise, MEC will place staff and equipment in all the constituency tally centres and also set up a testing main tally centre in Blantyre. “The polling equipment staff […]
Vice president Saulos Chilima arrived late in the evening in Mzuzu for a number of UTM Party engagements in the north and immediately told party supporters not to revenge the demolition of party billboards by ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets. The notorious ruling DPP cadets have been vandalizing UTM billboards and uprooting party flags […]
A disqualified United Democratic Front (UDF) parliamentary candidate for Blantyre north Bakali Osman appears in court Tuesday to answer charges of uttering a false document. Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) spokesperson Mayamiko Chiwaya has confirmed that Osman is set to appear in court in Blantyre. “After examining the MSCE certificate which MEC presented to us, […]
The triple alliance of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), People’s Party (PP) and Freedom Party (FP) stormed Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre on Sunday with one message that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should not be given a fresh mandate because of its record of thieving public resources and maintained a claim that K1 trillion […]
Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) congregation has warmly welcomed the church’s pastoral letter, saying it reflects the myriad of problems Malawians are facing under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The Pastoral Letter. which was read out on Sunday morning in all the synod’s its churches, mostly based in the Central Region, faulted […]
Minister of Homeland Security who is also ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spoksperson, Nicholas Dausi, has parried away talk that President Peter Mutharika is only taking his campaign along tarmac roads, and not going yonder in the rural areas as his competitors are doing. Dausi challenged Zodiak Broadcasting Station’s Tiuzeni Zoona host, Daniel Mababa, that […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) central region Vice President Uladi Mussa has said the May 21 2019 election is not about changing the government but to fulfill five major objectives. Mussa said on Sunday that the elections would be held to fulfill the constitutional requirement to have elections every five years, remove a ghost worker Vice […]
Malawi Police in Mzuzu have arrested a UTM Party member, a security personnel and a visiting Indian doctor on allegations that they were plotting to rig the May 21 watershed elections. Yasin Maoni, UTM director of Legal Affairs says the arrested are Dr. Charran Gutala, an Indian medical practitioner who visited the UTM member Shaggy […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has disqualified a United Democratic Front (UDF) parliamentary candidate for Blantyre north east for presenting a fake Malawi School Certificate of Education. MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa has confirmed that Bakali Osman presented the fake certificate to dodge a proficiency test of reading and speaking English. “We received a complaint […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has promised to revive and complete Nsanje World Inland Port once voted into power during the May 21 elections, accusing the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration for using the project as a deliberate ploy to defraud taxpayers money. Chakwera made the remarks on Friday when he […]
UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima says he is upbeat that he will win the May 21 presidential race whilst the party will sweep the parliamentary and local government elections. The State vice president said this on Friday in Balaka at a rally after highly patronized whistle stop tours. “UTM is less than one-year-old but […]
YouthDecide 2019, a campaign whose chief aim is to make sure the interests of the youth are incorporated in politicians’ and political parties manifestos prior and after the forthcoming May 21 tripartite polls, has launched a deliberate strategy to make sure that it reaches out to as many youths as possible across the country. The […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) presidential candidate Atupele Muluzi has said he was approached by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as well as Malawi Congress Party ( MCP) and UTM Party for an electoral alliance in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. However, Atupele has not indicated if the parties hasd offered him the running mate […]
State Vice-President and UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima has challenged his boss President Peter Mutharika to “stop this foolishness of intimidating people” in the run up to the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Chilima spoke at a campaign rally at Balaka Primary School Ground on Friday afternoon that politics of intimidation were buried in […]
The High Court in Blantyre has rejected Cassim Chilumpha’s application for appeal against the decision by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to disqualify him from contesting in the presidential poll on May 21. Judge Mike Tembo said the law is quite clear that a decision of the High Court, on an appeal by way of […]
As Atupele Muluzi takes the stage in Chingale, a constituency in the eastern district of Zomba, he grasps a microphone with one hand and waves with the other. “Malawi-moto, Malawi-moto!” he starts sloganeering. The 40-year-old leader of the United Democratic Front (UDF) who was written off by some, is proving he is gaining ground wooing […]