Late January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia brings waves of impenetrable traffic, pan-African flags adorning the central Bole Road, and scarcely a vacant room in the city’s infamously hotel-filled landscape. The cause: the semi-annual African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit, which this year began on Friday, January 23. As the AU’s most important annual meeting […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika will on Wednesday January 28; leave the country for Ethiopia where he is scheduled to attend the 24th Ordinary African Union (AU) Assembly. The meeting is scheduled for January 30 to 31, 2015 in Addis Ababa. A statement from State House Press House office says the plane carrying President Mutharika will […]
The European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Malawi, in response to an invitation by the country’s Electoral Commission. This is the third time that the European Union is observing elections in Malawi (previously in 2004 and 2009), which reflects the EU’s long term commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has asked young women leaders to be focused, resolute and assertive to succeed in life. “Attaining leadership does not come easy and one has to make one step at a time,” said the President on the sidelines of the 20th Session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The […]
The head of the African Union, Benin President Boni Yayi, on Tuesday arrived in the country and held talks with President Joyce Banda at Kamuzu Palace in the capital Lilongwe. The details of their discussions were kept under wraps. But speaking to reporters after the meeting, Yayi said he icame to invite President Banda to the forthcoming AU Summit […]
Being an African president is a risky business. It can be fatal. We`re already three down this year alone, and critically-ill Meles Zenawi looks like he`ll make it four. Other continents, by and large, seem to do a better job of hanging on to their leaders. The curse of the African president strikes again. This […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi and other former African heads of state on Wednesday met newly elected African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa. Muluzi was joined at the meeting with Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, , John Kufuor of Ghana and Karl Auguste Offman of Mauritius . The […]
Malawi’s Head of State Joyce Banda has hailed African men “for creating space” by way of discouraging and removing gender barriers to enable women occupy important decision-making and leadership positions in society. She said this on Monday when she met in audience Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma at Southern Sun Hotel, Pretoria in the Republic of […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali said on Monday the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the post of African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson demonstrated SADC’s unity. Kachali, asked for Malawi’s reaction as one of the countries that backed the South African Home Affairs Minister, said Dlamini-Zuma’s victory demonstrated that there was solidarity within SADC. He said SADC […]
About 35 African citizens signed a petition asking African leaders to implement agriculture investment plans that could save 31 million Africans from poverty and 12 million children from stunted growth. The petition was signed at the sidelines of the 19th Africa Union Head of States summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme ‘Boosting […]
Malawi on Sunday helped to secure the victory of South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to become the first female head of the African Union (AU) Commission. The ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon after a closely fought contest for the chairmanship of the organisation. Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali, representing President Joyce Banda, was […]
Malawi has always been a strong supporter of women empowerment, Vice President Khumbo Kachali said in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa Saturday. Kachali, who is representing President Joyce Banda at the AU Heads of State and Government Summit, was speaking at a fund-raising luncheon the African Women’s Decade hosted for AU delegates. Also present at […]
Malawi never withdrew from hosting the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit, the Minister of Foreign Affairs clarified on Friday. Ephraim Chiume, speaking on the sidelines of the 21st ordinary session of the executive council made up of AU foreign ministers, also said Malawi invested heavily for the meeting, now under way in […]
African continent has the capacity to lift itself out of the economic and social challenges it is currently facing and one of the tools to use in fighting the vices is football, former Malawi head of state Bakili Muluzi said at an African Union football match. Muluzi was speaking to a sizeable crowd that gathered […]
Member of Parliament for Lilongwe Central (MCP) Robin Lowe has appealed to Malawi President Joyce Banda not to shun an African Union summit next month which was moved to Ethiopia from Lilongwe as she refused to host Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Banda announced that Vice President Khumbo Kachali will now attend the July 9-16 summit in […]
The Malawi Tourism Association (MTA) has appealed to commercial banks to be kind to its members to renegotiate loan re-payment modes following the decision not to host the African Union summit in July. Small and large businesses in Malawi are counting their losses following Malawi’s decision not to host the scheduled July 9 to 16 […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda returned home Thursday afternoon from her 12-day official tour of duty in the United Kingdom and United States of America respectively to a rapturous welcome and indicated that she will not attend next month’s Africa Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addressing a media conference upon arrival at the Chileka International […]
Long time ago I used to watch lots of movies. I have not watched one for a number of years now. I always tell myself that I will go to the theatre when I get time. And it so happens that the time never seems to come. But I recall one movie I watched back […]