Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday called for an immediate end to the country’s child labour, particularly in the tobacco industry. President Mutharika was speaking in Lilongwe when he officially opened the 2012 tobacco marketing season at the Kanengo Auction Floors. He said children were supposed to be going to schools so that they […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday officially opened the 2012 tobacco marketing season at Kanengo Auction Floors in Lilongwe amid rigorous protests from growers against the low prices offered by the buyers. The President – a tobacco farmer himself – was scheduled to officially open the market at around 09:00hrs but he had to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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It is official. The USA government has finally suspended the US$350 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) investment for Malawi sighting the impudence over last year’s visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, recent arrests of opposition and human rights leaders and inflammatory rhetoric by senior government officials as some of the major reasons for the suspension. […]
A pro-democracy activist, Ben Chiza Mkandawire, has lashed at President Bingu wa Mutharika’s increased autocracy, branding him as a smug. Chiza Mkandawire has been driving his democracy activism through the social media and condemned the deteriorating human rights situation in Malawi with the current spate of arbitrary arrests on Mutharika’s growing band of critics. “Bingu has […]
An emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday defied President Bingu wa Mutharika on his intentions to declare a State of Emergency in the country. Some ministers disclosed that Mutharika who chaired the meeting, wanted to declare a state of emergency but many cabinet ministers were against the idea arguing that the probability of the ruling Democratic […]
Malawi is gripped by what political scientists call paralysis. Everyone knows what is wrong, except the leader: and the leader holds the ‘legitimacy’ strings. And the leader and his cohort think they can stay as long as they like or do whatever they want till 2014. The suffering laws and constitution abiding populace do not […]
The story seems plucked from Nollywood but it’s not fiction. A scrupulous Zimbabwean woman is at large after she swindled embattled Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, his Malawian business partner Edwin Bhagwanji and some Asians of MK80 million through a ‘shell’ Oil company, Nyasa Times can reveal. Malawi Police have since enlisted the help of […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has refused to resign after the religious rights group Public Affairs Committee (PAC) demanded that he steps down or face “civil disobedience” for mismanaging the economy and trampling on democratic freedoms. Speaking in the eastern lakeshore district of Mangochi on Thursday, remarks broadcast live on national radio, the 78-year-old president, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is no doubt that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s time is running short very fast. The positive thing about this is that it presents Malawi and Malawians a rare opportunity to sort out the mess the country under Mutharika is wallowing in. To spell this out we are talking about: · fixing the constitution, · […]
ARGUABLY, political arrests in Malawi are fast becoming, and are most likely to become, an everyday experience in the Mutharika administration. The writing is clearly on the wall why and how is this the case. But, unlike the Jack Bauer-staged, lowly-backfiring Ralph Kasambara arrest, the recent ‘smoke out’ arrests of the quasi-state-funded Malawi Human Rights […]