President Bingu Mutharika has appointed new members of the board of directors for the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) but Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, Goodall Gondwe sought to downplay that he board will approve a price hike for fuel. The new MERA board chairperson is Lyton Zinyemba, appointed for a a tenure […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s son-in-law Tonderai Mubaira is cheating on his wife, the President’s daughter, Duwa, with a well known ‘town girl’ Julie Bhamjee and has sired a child out of wedlock. Tonderai and Duwa had a high profile wedding two years ago and are yet to have a child of their own. Duwa […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika who is reported to have lost trust and confidence in Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director General Bright Malopa has pulled a shocker, turning down Malopa and MBC from hosting the organisation’s annual event, ‘Our People Our Pride’ at the State House. Last year, Mutharika hosted the event at the magnificent, […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has condemned the tendency of bigger and richer nations to impose their cultures and traditions on countries presumed to be smaller and poorer. Speaking during the forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations currently underway in Doha, Qatar, Mutharika lashed at bigger and richer nations who he said obliterate the […]
Malawi’s prisoners have expressed grave concern that 63 years after the Universal Declaration of Human rights and 16 years after Malawi ratified the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Charter through the enactment of the 1995 Kwacha Conference Centre Republican Constitution, the wheels of justice in the country’s judicial system worryingly continue to drag at a […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has condemned what she has described as a ‘fertilizer cartel’, which is responsible for the current scarcity of fertilizer resulting in unbearably exorbitant prices on the market. “I am aware that fertilizer contracts under the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) are granted to family friends and relatives of the people […]
Muslims in Malawi are strongly accusing the country’s state president Bingu wa Mutharika as the one wholly responsible for the failure of this year’s Islamic annual gathering known by an Arabic word, Ijtima. Information reaching Nyasa Times indicates that the National organizing committee for the gathering had planned to hold the Ijtima early September but […]
The People’s Party (PP) has scolded the hitherto much-touted ‘economic engineering’ of President Bingu wa Mutharika, observing the country is currently experiencing the worst ever socio-economic turbulence and Malawians will ‘smoke out’ their ruler. “Muluzi (former president) told us that he (Mutharika) was the economic engineer and that he would turn around the Malawi economy; […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has mounted an extraordinary defence of his human rights record, saying his government generally respect rights of its citizens. In his recorded address to the nation on state television on December, Human Rights Day, a United Nations (UN) sanctioned day of observance, Mutharika said “there are no political prisoners or […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has taken to task President Bingu wa Mutharika for trampling on citizens right to life, calling on government through its security forces and of course state thugs to stop killing suspects and activists. Addressing a mammoth People’s Party rally at Ntcheu Community Centre ground on Saturday, Banda said she was […]
The two civil society organisations have said Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has lost the mandate to rule because Malawians have lost trust in his government. The NGOs, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (Cedep), in a statement marking the commemoration of World Human Rights Day on […]
The stand taken by Zambian president Michael Sata to refuse to forgive his Malawian counterpart Bingu wa Mutharika has forced former Minister of Sports Moses Dossi to ask Sata for clemency. Dossi has written President Sata and sent the letter to Zambia’s embassy in Malawi pleading with him to forgive Mutharika, saying what Mutharika did […]
Centre for Social Concern, a body that come up with monthly surveys of cost of living in Malawi has said Malawians are struggling to make ends meet due to the current economic turmoil. The group says in its “Statement on the Status of Economy” in Parliament, the Minister of Finance Ken Lipenga, indicated that the […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has bowed down to pressure by ordering that Malawi Law Commission to review some of the repressive laws including a ban on homosexual acts, Justice Minister Ephraim Chiume has said. Chiume said provisions of the penal code concerning “indecent practices and unnatural acts” would be reviewed. “In view of the sentiments […]
Mulhako wa a Lhomwe (MWA), a grouping of Lhomwe speaking people found in southern Malawi has established itself a base at the Blantyre City Council (BCC) where almost the entire management team constitutes of Lhomwe people, Nyasa Times can reveal. Management team of BCC is made up of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and all […]
Presidential and ruling DPP spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba was business as usual on Thursday, downplaying criticisms over President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, for his use of presidential helicopter to fly him to Mzuzu for campaign and inaugurate street lights. Peter, DPP presidential candidate and Minister of Foreign Affairs, used the presidential chopper last Sunday from […]
“Malawians are afraid of their future, they are afraid that they can’t feed their families. They are afraid that they can’t get their ARVs or transport their crops to the market or power their factories, schools and hospitals….And some are even afraid to have a conversation and that is a worrisome situation to be in.” […]
The announcement by Bingu wa Mutharika’s sibling Peter that he has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2014 Presidential election makes sad reading. Besides, it also marks a sad chapter in the democracy of our beloved country Malawi. The announcement comes at a bad time when Malawians had high hopes and expectations that […]