United Nations Secretary General Ba Ki-Moon has commended and congratulated Malawi for being a leader globally in the fight against HIV and AIDS and for becoming a Board Member of the Global Fund. Ki-Moon was speaking during an audience with Malawi President Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. […]
UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon Monday comfortably attended a high level HIV and AIDS conference in South Africa, just hours after he made an emergency landing at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe to refuel his plane. Ban is among 500 scientists and researchers who have brought their heads together to see if they can […]
UN secretary general Ban Ki- Moon was in Malawi on Sunday night when his plane had an emergency landing at Kamuzu International Airport in the capital Lilongwe when it reportedly run out of fuel. Ban was on his way to South Africa. President Peter Mutharika swiftly sent agriculture minister George Chaponda and scores of police […]
Malawi has been asked to take African leadership in driving the agenda against poverty through democratization, financial probity and peace facilitation. According to President Peter Mutharika, this is what Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki Moon, asked him to do during their meeting in New York on Thursday. In an interview, Mutharika […]
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday granted the first meeting to this year’s General Assembly to Malawi’s leader Peter Mutharika. From bookings from several world leaders to see him, the secretary general suspended his busy schedule on Thursday morning to host Mutharika first. In an interview, the Malawi leader expressed delight and gratitude […]
The SADC leader, Malawi President Dr Joyce Banda on 22nd September, 2013 told the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that SADC is very concerned about the conflict underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the deteriorating humanitarian situation there. The SADC leader said what is more worrisome is that in the eastern part […]
Malawi government has asked United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to mediate the decades-long border dispute with Tanzanian over Lake Malawi believed to have oil deposits.. In the standoff Tanzania is claiming half of the Lake which is called Lake Nyasa in Tanzania. But Malawi claims the entire Lake basing on 1890 Anglo-German treaty […]
Malawian President Mrs. Joyce Banda on Sunday, September 23, 2012 held a bilateral meeting with Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA. President Banda is in New York to attend the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly. The Secretary General will officially open […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Richard Dictus has said the responsibility of finding solutions lies with the Malawi people themselves and that the UN is only facilitating dialogue between the government of Malawi and civil society organizations in the midst of the country’s economic challenges. Addressing a news conference in […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed concern over the deadly violence in Malawi, where up to 18 people have reportedly been killed and many others injured during clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces this week. As many as 18 people are thought to have been killed in two days of violent anti-government protests […]