Private practise lawyer Wapona Kita has disclosed that he will represent concerned citizens to challenge the newly increase fuel prices. Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) in a vendor-fashion style saidon Tuesday the pump price of petrol had increased by 31 percent, diesel by 38 percent and paraffin by 10 percent to reflect higher world commodity […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is in robust health but holidaying in some undisclosed country, his brother Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has disclosed. The younger Mutharika, who is also Malawi’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was speaking to the media on the line from Brazil where he is reported to be official duties. […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is piling pressure on China to save the country’s economy teetering on the brink of collapse after traditional donors rebuffed his zero budget financial plan, a report by African Development Bank (AfDB) has said. But analysts say opening up to China, especially in the private sector, can strangle indigenous business […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party regional governor for the South Noel Masangwi is involved in a K41 million tax evasion at Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) but officials say he is being shielded by President Bingu wa Mutharika. Local media received an injunction stopping them from publishing the story on two occasions. Some lawyers expressed surprise that […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is on leave and it is my considered opinion that he deserves one. Any employee should go on leave once in a while; more so when things in the workplace are not well and his employers, the voters, are showing increasing disapproval and dissatisfaction. But having said that, I am forced, by the […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been criticised for proceeding to a vacation when the country needs leadership in the middle of its worse ever economic crisis. Mutharika left the country last week for Perth, Australia where he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting but a week after the summit ended, he has not […]
Things are getting worse for embattled Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika as his ‘relationship’ with the new Zambian president Michael Sata continues to get strained by the day. The latest being the eviction of Malawi’s envoy from the Zambian premises in Dar –es- Salaam after the Zambian government hiked rent by 200 percent. According to […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has said Malawians can trust his party with power in 2014, saying his main opposition party ruled this country better for 31 years. Tembo also hinted that he wants to contest in 2014 as MCP presidential candidate. “Why s houldn’t they (Malawians) not trust me? We ruled this […]
Malawi’s electronic media should brace for more competition following the awarding of broadcasting licences to four TV stations and four radio stations by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The regulator called for applications of TV and radio license application in 2009. Macra director general Charles Nsaliwa said the four television stations have out-bidden fellow […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is attending to medical attention at a foreign clinic, sparking a volley of speculation over his health. Nyasa Times understands that Mutharika 78, accompanied by his wife, Callista, left Australia after the Commonwealth Heads of State summit for Singapore to seek “specialised treatment” following some medical difficulties. His spokesman Hetherwick […]
The Declaration of Assets law is just a rubber stamp in Malawi, which is there to hoodwink people because no one has access to the records and there is no enforcement mechanism. Section 88 A (1) of the Constitution stipulates that the President and members of cabinet must disclose all their assets, liabilities and business […]
Malawi Government is reported to have designed a response to the Hague based International Criminal Court (ICC) following a request to submit an explanation on why it failed to arrest Sudanese ruler Omar Hassan al-Bashir during his recent visit to the country. Bashir, facing ten counts of war charges, crimes against humanity and genocide he […]
United Nations resident representative in Malawi, Richard Dictus, says Malawi needs a “different thinking “and a “sustained effort” to resolve the political and economic turmoil. Dictus, whose UN is facilitating dialogue between government and the civil society leaders, made the remarks on Brian Banda’s Capital FM Straight Talk programme. He noted that the country was […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has decided to take a month-long holiday in Australia after the end of the Commonwealth summit while the people of Malawi struggle with fuel shortage, forex scarcity and economic turmoil, Nyasa Times has learnt. The Malawi ruler according to top sources he has pencilled in the return home on December […]
The World Bank has made it clear that for Malawi to start receiving budgetary support the Bingu wa Mutharika administration should address concerns about his political and economic leadership. The donors are concerned about threats to media freedom, governance, deterioarating human rights situations and the “shrinking political space”. The lender, which is holding back $40 […]
(Shortened from a longer academic paper) Even Dr Banda, who was fond of calling Chiume, Chisiza and Chipembere ‘my boys’, did, in polite moments, call Orton Chirwa ‘Mr Chirwa’. And, even when he was ill-treating Orton Chirwa, the ‘Mr Chirwa’ sometimes slipped out (Vera Chirwa, 2007, page 74). Orton Chirwa was born in 1919, in […]
The stubbornness of Malawi leadership is costing the country more with a new stand by the international donor community that they will never release funds unless President Bingu wa Mutharika overcomes political and economic hurdles. This has clearly led to failure of Malawi’s saviour paper, the zero-deficit budget, as donors are not willing to release […]
Two of Malawi’s leading Human Rights organisations, Centre for Human Rights Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of the People (CEDEP) are demanding that President Bingu wa Mutharika and his government must put in place political reforms that will be in line with good governance, respect for the rule of law, freedom of expression and […]