Malawi’s vocal human rights campaigner Undule Mwakasungura says the country is facing huge challenges in governance and human rights under President Bingu wa Mutharika rule. He made the remarks on Monday in Lilongwe at Crossroads Hotel where his Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) in partnership with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa […]
The blame game continues. Now Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) first vice president Goodall Gondwe says people who organised the stripping of women in Malawi’s three major cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu last week would want to be in government without an election. “They want to start something like what happened in Egypt, Tunisia or […]
The executive arm of the Malawi government which comprises the President and its cabinet ministers is accused of being arrogant and demeaning functions of other arms of government for its failure to respect approval of parliament on the working conditions for the judiciary workers. The support staff of the judiciary are currently staging an indefinite […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) MP for Blantyre City South, Moses Kunkuyu, has blasted the party’s old guards of being “too timid” to face President Bingu wa Mutharika and tell him the truth. Speaking in Zodiac radio’s Tiuzeni Zoona program on Sunday, the youthful lawmaker said this is why he and other MPs in the […]
One of Malawi’s leading newspaper columnists on topical issues, Raphael Tenthani, has underlined the fact that the country is indeed a failed state. Last year John Kapito, who chairs the state funded Malawi Human Rights Commission, grabbed newspaper headlines when he described Malawi as a ‘failed state’. Kapito noted that there clear signs that “government […]
The claims by Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika about his party’s numerical strength in Parliament, which he can abuse, to legitimize his third term agenda if he so wished suggests that he might still be nurturing ambitions to holf on to power, Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic education (CSCQBE) Executive director Benedicto Kondowe has said. […]
There was mad dash at most fuel stations in Blantyre Friday as police embarked on an unnamed operation descending on every person carrying jerry cans (zigubu) after some people booed President Bingu wa Mutharika when he was coming from Ndata in Thyolo going to Sanjika Palace. Malawians are unhappy with the economic woes in the […]
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma on Saturday arrived in Malawi where he will hold talks with President Bingu wa Mutharika, political and civil society leaders. Sharma touched down Kamuzu International Airport aboard Kenyan Airways and was welcomed by deputy minister of foreign affairs Kondwani Nankhumwa. Commonwelth’s assistant spokesperson for Africa, Julius Mucunguzi, told Nyasa Timesin Lilongwe that […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has distanced himself from a phalanx of youth who have stripped women found wearing trousers, miniskirts or leggings in the country’s three major cities of Mzuzu, Lilongwe and Blantyre saying he did not incite the action as critics said. “I have not sent anybody to harass women in the streets. […]
Some Malawians fear President Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, maybe suffering from a form of dementia that is robbing him of the ability to provide leadership and the burgeoning opposition Peoples Party (PP) of the State Vice President Joyce Banda has requested the cabinet to quickly appoint independent medical practitioners to assess the first citizen. The […]
An active politician cannot head the spy agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) says in reaction to President Bingu wa Mutharika naming DPP politician Bintony Kutsaira as head of NIS. In a statement signed by acting national coordinator the Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, HRCC says the position requires a person with […]
Monday 16th January would go downas any other holiday for most ordinary Malawians, but to theatre academicians, pundits and enthusiasts it was another exciting moment when they, in enlightened spirits, unpackaged the bombshell, Semo, a play written by Thlupego Chisiza and the slained university student Robert Chasowa. The mid-day drizzles could not dampen the spirits […]
Member of Parliament for Thyolo Thava, Lifred Nawena’s comments on Capital FM that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s real name is [Ryson] Webster Thom has angered the citizen number one, who in turn has ordered Malawi Communications Regulatory (Macra) to gag the radio. Macra summoned management of Capital FM soon after People’s Party deputy secretary general […]
The Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika can perfectly be likened with a chameleon. Three weeks after publicly blaming Satan for Malawi’s economic mess during his Christmas and New Year’s message, today he has denied uttering such words. Instead the Malawi leader has once again blamed his detractors for “deliberately misinterpreting his New Year’s message.” Mutharika, […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has replaced the head of National Intelligence Service (NIS) Clement Kapalamula and appointed former cabinet minister Bintony Kutsaira as Director General indicating a possible revamp of government’s spy programme. Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) said in its brief press statement, Kutsaira’s appointment is with effect from Sunday, January […]
Former President Bakili Muluzi did not play any role in restoring relations between Malawi and Zambia, Malawi’s Information Minister Patricia Kaliati has said. Recently, Muluzi flew to Zambia to persuade President Michael Sata to forgive President Bingu Mutharika who have been regarded as archrivals over the last four years since the unceremonious hounding out of […]
‘You can fool some people sometimes, But you can’t fool all the people all the time, So now we see the light; We gonna stand up for our rights! Wo yooooo! Wo yooo, yooo, yooo!’ Wolves amongst the sheep: History looks with awe at the likes of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, John Chilembwe, the Mwanza four, […]
Malawi is heading back to its old ways of accumulating massive foreign debt barely 5 years after the international community approved a debt relief program for the Southern African country. Through Malawi’s securing of a $200 million (K34 billion), largely from various creditors, to steady the deteriorating economy the country has dramatically pushed up its foreign debt […]