By Ananiya Alick Ponje If there is a day president Bingu wa Mutharika rues most in his political career, it surely should be July 20. This is the day that shook the foundations of the State House with emotions, tears, anger, frustrations and death from Malawians. It must have sent a peculiar sting down his […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times A meeting of senior politburo members of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of president Bingu wa Mutharika agreed that the president’s younger brother, Professor Peter Mutharika, be appointed state second vice president and that the infamous section 46 of the penal code which empowers the minister responsible to ban […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes Embattled Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika, known for his fiery temperament when talking about opposition political parties and Civil Society groups, on Tuesday made a passionate plea to them and Malawians in general saying “don’t burn Malawi please. Malawi is a small country.” “I am ready to talk to them. If […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is demanded to do the following 20 things or face nationwide demonstrations again on August 17. 1; Adopt measures and actions to ensure availability of and access to fore. 2; Adopt special measures to avail adequate forex to Petroleum Importers Limited and other suppliers of fuel. 3; Escom board and […]
By Charles Kufa and Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday said he will set up Presidential Committee on Dialogue to ensure there is dialogue with stakeholders dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation. The President made the call […]
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika urged African states on Monday to allow opposition groups to express their views, three weeks after anti-government protests in his own country left 19 dead. But Mutharika also made a dig at his own opposition, saying they appeared to be aiming to cause instability. “Let us enhance participatory democracy if […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika wants former presidential press officer Chikumbutso Mtumodzi to return to the State House and resume his former position replacing Albert Mungomo, Nyasa Times understands. Ironically Mungomo replaced Mutharika’s longest serving and effective Press Officer Mtumodzi, who is currently the deputy principal secretary in the Ministry of […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Reserve Bank of Malawi has devalued the kwacha currency by about 10 percent against the U.S. dollar to 165, it has been reported. According to a Reuters report, unnamed bank source said on Monday that Kwacha has been devalued, citing a directive, although the new rate is still well short […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Former Finance Minister Goodal Gondwe is not automatic running mate to ruling DPP’s presidential candidate Professor Peter Mutharika in 2014 despite being the party’s first Vice President, newly appointed Campaign Director Dr Ken Zikhale Ng’oma has said. In a recent shake up of positions, the ruling party roped in Zikhale as […]
By Collins Mtika, NyasaTimes The Hunger Project have withdrawn the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger from President Bingu wa Mutharika fter the Malawi Diaspora Forum (MDF), based in the United Kingdom, developed a petition in which it asked The Hunger Project office in New York not to award the Malawian […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika has invited to Sanjika Palace machete-wielding DPP Youth Cadets – a youth wing of the ruling party – were seen driving around the city of Blantyre symbolically sharpening their weapons against the tarmac and about 1000 selected vendors from various markets Also invited to Sanjika are the thugs […]
By Watipaso Mkandawire, Chiholocastle.blogspot.com Malawi former president Bakili Muluzi (BM) was so appealing to the grass roots, so is the current vice president Joyce Banda (JB). BM was comfortable with people of all class and mainly the grass roots. BM was genuinely compassionate and free-giving, so is JB. BM had a sense of humour, so […]
By Peter Makossah, Nyasa Times Malawi Diaspora Forum (MDF) a consortium of diaspora Malawians in the United Kingdom currently hosting ‘Agenda for Change’ meetings across Great Britain aimed at strategising and charting a way forward for Malawi’s ailing economic crisis and the never-ending political catastrophes will on Saturday August 13th hold yet another conference in […]
By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times Before being fired as governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary-general on Sunday, Bintony Kutsaira had chaired a meeting last Friday at Civic Offices in Lilongwe where it was agreed that the Malawi Police and the Army were too soft on the anti-government demonstrators on July 20, 2011 and that here was […]
By Charles Mkula, Newstime Africa Civil Society groups in Malawi Thursday made fresh appeals for genuine dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation before they take the citizens back into the streets on August 17. Speaking at press conference in Lilongwe, Civil Society […]
By CSI Lilongwe , CSI Lilongwe is a retired civil servant The party has been and gone. We are left with the stale stench of stale beer, broken chairs and, worse, death and destruction. We have done the analysis; asked the questions; searched our souls – what is left of them. And by the way, there […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has sued a ruling DPP sponsored propaganda newspaper, Eye Witness, for defamation. The paper has been writing articles of disparagement against the Vice President. Recently, it published a story claiming Banda was plotting to overthrow government. Banda described the report as “serious allegation.” “Anybody who […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda (JB) says President Bingu wa Mutharika made a pledge that he was going to handover the presidency to her when he nominated her as running mate in 2009 elections. Banda told Capital Radio that she was “hesitant” at first to accept the nomination of vice […]