Malawi NGOs have called on President Bingu wa Mutharika to stop its terror campaign against a growing band of critics concentrate on resolving the county’s social and economic woes or consider resigning. Addressing journalists in Mzuzu on Wednesday, the NGOs; Forum for New Direction (FOND), Youth Watch Society, Renaissance Solutions Centre and Church and Society […]
Former Malawi Attorney General Ralph Kasambara , who was arrested by Malawi Police, recently has sent a ‘vote of thanks’ to all people who supported him in any way during the past two weeks which he has been caged and has once again hit at the President Bingu wa Mutharika administration for being autocratic. In […]
Civil Society Organisations in Malawi have engaged the international community to ensure that President Bingu wa Mutharika is either expelled or suspended from progressive international bodies such as the African Union, SADC, COMESA and the Commonwealth saying he has failed to run Malawi, Nyasa Times has established. Government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati could immediately comment. Malawi is scheduled […]
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Malawi government has announced that the newly built international conference centre with Chinese aid which is next to the country’s first five-star hotel at City Centre in the capital Lilongwe will be named after President Bingu wa Mutharika. Minister of Tourism Parks and Wildlife Daniel Liwimbi disclosed this at the parliament building in Lilongwe on […]
Former Sports, Youth and Culture Minister Moses Dossi, who also has presidential ambitions, has welcomed veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba for announcing his return into frontline politics, saying he will help in the fight against Mutharika dictatorship. Dossi in his contribution in Monday’s Capital FM’s Newstalk programme in which Malawians were asked to have their say […]
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the peaceful Malawi we knew is gradually disappearing right before our eyes. An important instrument of democracy, kumemekeza maustogoleri (a combination ofbata and ulemu) is slowly disappearing into the political horizons. Instead, what we have in its place is the foreign concept of citizenship that is rooted in arrogance, aggression and the deliberate […]
People of Karonga and Chitipa districts have asked President Bingu wa Mutharika to stop naming the highly politicised and controversial Karonga – Chitipa road in his name until proper consultations with relevant stakeholders are done, Nyasa Times has leant. The naming ceremony happened a few weeks ago during a binge party held at Mikoma beach owned by […]
The state-run corruption-busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has summoned another lawyer who worked on obtaining bail ‘political prisoner’ former Attorney-General Ralph Kasambara to quiz him his role on how they obtained bail while courts are on strike. ACB has already interrogated two lawyers from Kasambara’s law firm, Ralph and Arnolds, Wapona Kita and Jonathan Kara on […]
Lawyer Wapona Kita, representing critic of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, on Monday appeared before the graft bursting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Blantyre. ACB boss Alexious Nampota summoned Kita and his workmate at Ralph and Arnolds law firm, Jonathan Kara, to explain how they managed to get […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika who expelled British High Commissioner after describing him as “becoming ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism” says he has accepted an invitation to the Queen’s diamond jubilee. Mutharika told the British Guardian newspaper, that he would be visiting London in the summer to be part of the celebrations marking […]
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Malawi opposition parties have ratcheted up political pressure on President Bingu wa Mutharika to release detained outspoken critic Ralph Kasambara by Monday or face ‘social discontent’. The parties said Mutharika administration should release Kasambara by 12 PM of Monday, 20th February 2012 or else they would use “political means” to have him freed. They noted […]
Malawi’s London-based top scholars have commented on the ‘detention without trial’ of prominent human rights lawyer Ralph Kasambara and calling for his release. Nyasa Times produces what the two academicians -Dr Mpalive Msiska and Thandika Mkandawire wrote. Dr Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Birkbeck, University of London wrote Nyasa Times: It is another sad day for the state […]
Malawi civil society organisations and opposition have said only a referendum can give people in the country a genuine platform to decided whether President Bingu wa Mutharika should continue ruling the country or not. Addressing the press in Blantyre, a rights activists under the name Human Rights Defenders claimed that Mutharika has lost the mandate and […]
Something strange is happening in Malawi at the moment. Ralph Kasambara, a prominent lawyer and former attorney general, has been arrested and kept at the country’s maximum and notorious prison. Several judges have granted him bail but the police are refusing to release him. At the time of writing this opinion, Mr Kasambara is being […]
Many Malawians who have been commenting on Nyasa Times, social networking sites, clearly say that they would be prepared to celebrate and even hold street parties if a recent prophesy by Nigerian televangelist TB Joshuacomes to pass in the country. Many commentators said President Bingu wa Mutharika has brought painful memories, describing the Prophet Joshua’s […]
Malawi is in a terrible crisis. Both in terms of governance and economy. It is a bare fact that the government of Bingu wa Mutharika, Webster Thom, has totally messed the once admirable economy, thanks to the Bingunomics theories that have no practical application, other than ruining whatever they are applied to. The Binguconomics theories […]