Malawi opposition lawmaker Atupele Muluzi on Sunday barnstormed the Eastern region with a whistle-stop rallies, defining his much touted ‘agenda for change’ which he said is a platform for his new generation. Thousands of people lined the route from Blantyre to Machinga to have a glimpse of the youthful UDF presidential hopeful on his first […]
Atupele being interviewed by Straigh Talk host Brian Banda Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) deputy parliamentary leader, Atupele Muluzi, has vowed that he will not retreat from his campaign to advance an ‘agenda for change’ in the country despite facing intimidation, harassment and arrest. Atupele, who is the son of former President Bakili Muluzi […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s spokesman, Hetherwick Ntaba, has praised Malawi’s female vice president Joyce Banda as a law abiding politician. Ntaba said the Vice President who also leads an opposition People’s Party postponed a scheduled rally in Dowa following a police directive while accusing a presidential aspirant for UDF, Atupele Muluzi for “disobeying the law” […]
Lawmaker and Malawi’s youthful presidential aspirant, Austin Atupele Muluzi, the son of ex-president Bakili Muluzi has been discharged from Mwaiwathu Private hospital after being treated from Malaria. His wife, former lawmaker Angela (Nee Zachepa) said Atupele was sent hope after doctors observed he was “recovering well.” Messages have been pouring in from well-wishers hoping for […]
Member of Parliament for Blantyre Rural East, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) on Monday on Monday visited Machinga North East MP Atupele Muluzi currently admitted at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre and held “special talks”. Sources at the hospital told Nyasa Times that as soon as HDP walked into Atupele’s room, the young Muluzi politely asked […]
Malawian Police officers will be executing a search warrant at former president Bakili Muluzi’s home village residence, Kapoloma, in Machinga early Monday, Nyasa Times understands. This follows presidential orders following Muluzi’s outburst when he arrived in the country last Saturday to comfort his son, Machinga North East lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, who was arrested last week […]
Big Bullets became the first team to reach the finals of the Fellowship Association of Malawi ( Fama) on Saturday after coming from behind to beat Red Lions 2-1 in a fierce encounter at Kamuzu Stadium in the commercial city Blantyre. The People’s Team kicked the game on a low note with the Soldiers from […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi on Saturday returned home from South Africa where he was receiving treatment and told a news conference on arrival that he will not be cowed into submission by his successor, President Bingu wa Mutharika. Muluzi arrived through Blantyre’s Chileka Airport at noon on a South African Airways Boeing 737. He […]
Malawi’s former president Dr. Bakili Muluzi says the incumbent president Bingu wa Mutharika lacks a human heart and he has since vowed to find a way of fighting him back. Muluzi, the first democratically elected president who ruled Malawi from 1994 to 2004, said this through a local weekend newspaper Malawi News. “In this world […]
Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, the son of former president Bakili Muluzi, who was arrested this week in connection with the torching of a police station Lilongwe has been granted Police bail on Friday night. The aspiring 2014 presidential candidate for the opposition United Democratic Party (UDF), was granted bail while receiving treatment at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital […]
Authorities in Malawi on Friday wrote State Vice President Joyce Banda stopping her from addressing a public political rally of her People’s Party (PP), which was scheduled to take place at Mponela in Dowa district. According to an official in the Vice President’s office in Lilongwe, the letter originated from the Dowa District Commissioner’s office […]
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has called on Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to end crackdown on growing band of critics and activists. The HRW orbseved that the government’s recent surge of arrests and threats against critics reflects its broader crackdown on free speech and other basic rights, “Arresting government critics is just the latest sign […]
Malawi’s Leader of Opposition John Tembo has visited detained Machinga North East MP Atupele Muluzi at City Center Clinic in the capital, Lilongwe, where he has been admitted to. The 33-year-old opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) presidential aspirant who is son to Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi arrested on Tuesday. Tembo who met a number […]
Nobody at the Nyasa Times is enjoying the new lows that Malawi is descending to with each day, under the tyrannical rule of President Bingu wa Mutharika. The sight of youths and women engaging in running battles with the brutal Malawi Police, when the youths and women could have been busy with gainful activities, hurts […]
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, on Wednesday demanding the release of the leading opposition presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi. The people braves police intimidation and harassment as protestors chanted in the streets demanding the release of the UDF presidential hopeful who is a son for former Head of Stat, […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is said to have ‘signed’ the arrest warrant for opposition lawmaker and presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi after Police failed to get striking court magistrates to issue the warrant, Nyasa Times understands. Nyasa Times journalists have been asking Police about information on the court authority which issued the warrant of arrest […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda on Wednesday visited incarcerated Atupele Muluzi, son of former Head of State Bakili Muluzi at Maula Maximum Security Prison in Lilongwe. Banda, who is also President of the People’s Party (PP) was forced to get out of the car and walked for close to a kilometre into the prison as […]
A presidential aspirant for the opposition UDF, Austin Atupele Muluzi, arrested on Tuesday by Police has been whisked away from Maula Prison to a private clinic in Lilongwe after suffering high blood pressure. The 34-year-old son of Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi was moved from Lumbadzi Police station early in the morning to Maula Prison but had a […]