The US embassy in Malawi has announced that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) board meets this Thursday March 22 2012 in Washington to decide on the way forward for the Malawi Compact. Thus, the meeting this Thursday in Washington DC; is crucial for Malawi to know its future as regards this essential grant at the […]
Former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi has asked his doctors to allow him return home from South Africa where he travelled to receive medical treatment following the arrest of his son, lawmaker and presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi. Atupele was arrested by Police in Lilongwe on Tuesday as he was travelling to Blantyre. He has been detained […]
The landmark resolution coming out of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting at Limbe Cathedral is all the more too good to be true. There is no denying that the Mutharika administration has been notoriously brutal, economically unsound, diplomatically immature, and politically unpalatable ever since it got re-elected in the 2009 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections […]
Malawi’s privately owned Capital Radio’s Newstalk phone-in programme on Monday asked people to air their views on the resolution of Public Affairs Committee (PAC) asking president Bingu wa Mutharika to resign with candidly telling the President to “pack-up and hit the road.” Out of the people who contributed, up to 113 people called on Mutharika […]
The kicks of a dying horse: The Bingu wa Mutharika regime’s actions are reminiscent of the kicks of a dying horse. A few weeks ago, the police acting under orders from above, nabbed the former Attorney General, lawyer cum human rights defender, Ralph Kasambara and with little success tried to net all his legal associates, plus […]
Malawi’s youthful presidential aspirant, Atupele Muluzi, has vowed to continue resistance against the crackdown by the Bingu wa Mutharika administration, saying he will pursue his ‘agenda for change’ even if it means being killed. Police mounted roadblocks in Lilongwe on Sunday and fired teargas to prevent Atupele from addressing his road show political meetings. In […]
Reverend Andrew Kamponda, the vice moderator of the CCAP Blantyre Synod says President Bingu wa Mutharika government has been contaminated with evil viruses which have been misleading the Head of State. Kamponda was one of the delegates to a meeting organised by Public Affairs Committee (PAC), which called on Mutharika to resign within 60 days or […]
Beleaguered President Bingu wa Mutharika has palm-oiled about 20 religious leaders to destroy the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) because of its critical position to poor governance under the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Government through the Presidential Contact and Dialogue Committee convened a meeting for the clergy from December 29 to 30 2011 at Livingstonia […]
When President Bingu wa Mutharika was all comfy in Lusaka, Zambia working as an international civil servant, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) was at the forefront here trying to wrestle this country from the vice-grip of the dictatorship of the Malawi Congress Party. Late Alhaji Shaibu Itimu and Reverend Emmanuel Chimkwita Phiri were permanent fixtures […]
Malawis ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top brass on Friday stopped a press conference organised by the Minister of Information and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati who wanted to respond to Public Affairs Committee’s (PAC) call for President Bingu wa Mutharika to resign or call for a referendum. Kaliati organised the press conference Friday afternoon and […]
Recently , the State House of President Bingu wa Mutharika issued a statement calling for the accordance of greater respect to the President. In this article, some parts of the statement will be looked at more closely. ‘The State House has yet again noted with grave concern the continuing habit by some civil society organizations […]
Malawi Police on Saturday evening released on bail John Kapito, who chairs the state-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), after charging him with possession of seditious material and foreign currency without valid documents. Earlier, security forces led by Lexa Chalera, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Malawi Police, raided the house of Kapito in […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday gave a silent action to the call by Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a group of religious leaders and activists, that he should resign within 60 days or call for a referendum on his leadership within three months. In his speech when he presided over local commemorations of World […]
A Kenyan governance expert, Professor Allan Odugo Mella, has tipped Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika to shed-off whom he has described as “bad friends” to avoid losing grip of his mandate to rule Malawians. The Pan African Politics Forum (PAPF) Executive Director says by holding to the same advisors who have dragged him into chaos, […]
The President of the Republic of Malawi Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika on Sunday 04th of March 2012 told this nation during a rally he addressed in Thyolo district that he had intelligence that Civil Society organisations, opposition parties with help from some donors were planning to strategise on illegally overthrowing His government commencing 14thMarch 2012. […]
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As a Zimbabwean in the diaspora (South Africa), I have had the privilege of happily meeting many Malawians. Much to my dismay, however, as a Zimbabwean, I am not met with the same enthusiasm, in fact rather the opposite, much hostility which has unfortunately seen me slowly change my mind about Malawians being the warm people they […]
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba and Minister of Information and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati, have said a resign-by-May 14 ultimatum to the Head of State would be rejected. The Public Affairs Committee, a group of religious leaders and activists, has threatened “civil disobedience” if Mutharika will not step down within 60 days […]