The High Court in Blantyre on Thursday granted former president Bakili Muluzi permission to leave for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in activities to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, now the Africa Union. Muluzi, who is currently answering $11 million (about K1.7bn) graft charges, is expected […]
President Joyce Banda leaves the country for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the African Union Summit and will proceed to Tokyo, Japan for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Presidential press secretary, Steve Nhlane, said in a statement that the President will join fellow African Heads of State and Government at the 21st […]
Maxwell Mkwezalamba (PhD) , Malawi’s renowned economist has stepped down as African Union (AU) Commissioner for Economic Affairs. Mkwezalamba, who has served the continental body for close to eight years, will be replaced by Anthony Mothae Maruping, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho to United Nations agencies in Geneva and to World […]
The African Union (AU) has awarded young Malawian scientist, Associate Professor Fanuel Lampiao, with the 2012 AU-TWAS Young Scientist’ prize in the Life and Earth Sciences category. For winning the prize, the young scientist walked away with a whopping US$ 5000 cash prize. According to sourced information, the award is designed to recognize scientific excellence […]
President Joyce Banda has assured Oxfam International of her support towards ratifying and implementing African Union Treaties and Standards to enshrine values and standards across the continent. Oxfam wants governments to ratify key outstanding charters and protocols and is lobbying Presidents at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to speak to peers on […]
State House says President Joyce Banda leaves Malawi for Ethiopia on Friday to attend the 20th African Union (AU)summit, her first since she rose to power last April and will proceed t0 South Korea. Both trips are funded by AU and South Korea. President Banda pulled out of hosting the bloc’s last summit over Sudanese […]
The past 12 months have seen a series of notable successes for African women – with two Nobel Peace prizes, a second president and the first female head of the African Union Commission. For the BBC’s Africa Debate programme, Malawian campaigner Jessie Kabwila asks if Africa’s women are on the rise. It is easy to […]
I shall begin this article in AD 60 in Britain, which was not a nation state at the time, but a group of native tribes’ man. One of the famous tribes, whose name still echoes throughout history was the Inceni, who ruled as an independent tribe but through an allegiance with Rome. However, this allegiance was short-lived, as the Inceni […]
Botswana has commended the Malawi Government for its bold decision in cancelling next month’s African Union summit other than let Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, under indictment by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, to attend. The African Union decided Monday to move the July 9-16 summit to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The decision […]
Malawi’s principled refusal to invite Sudan’s president to the African Union summit in Malawi put the continental body in an impossible quandary. Their solution was imperfect, but the right move in complicated circumstances. If one ever doubted the influence that just one person can have on the fate of an entire country, then Malawi’s new […]
Pressure seems to mount on Malawi to shut out embattled Sudanese President Al Bashir during the AU summit to be held in Malawi in July with the latest call coming from Botswana. Botswana’s no nonsense President Lieutenant General Seretse Ian Khama has made an impassioned plea to the Malawi government not to allow President Al […]
The Sudanese government has responded t o the suggestion by Malawi President Joyce Banda that President Omar al-Bashir should send a top level official to represent him at an African Union summit in Lilongwe, saying Malawi had no right to make such a request. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has said if she had her way, she would not allow Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir to attend African Union Summit to be held in Lilongwe this July owing to his International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant of arrest for alleged crimes against humanity. Bashir is the first sitting president indicted […]
The new Malawi administration has finally announced that it will go ahead with the hosting of the African Union Heads of State Summit in June this year. The development puts to rest uncertainties that have been hovering around the issue following the initial stand by the current President Joyce Banda who was against the idea […]
China says it is ready to hand over to the Malawian government the US$90- million conference building built with Chinese aid loan in the country’s capital of Lilongwe, according to Chinese Ambassador Pan Hejun. The 1, 500-seat Malawi International Conference Centre project, which is affiliated with a 130-room business hotel, a 1,000-seat dining hall and […]
The United States says Malawi government will affect its chances to get back to the US$ 350.7 million worth of assistance meant to revitalise the country’s faltering energy sector if it will hosts fugitive Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir at the June’s Africa Union summit. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. aid agency that rewards […]