Cracks have emerged in President Bingu wa Mutharika’s cabinet over recent fuel price hike which threatens to weaken the governing DPP, Nyasa Times can exclusively reveal. Government on Tuesday hiked the price of petrol from K290 per litre to K380, diesel jumped by 38 percent at K360 per litre, citing escalating cost of importing and […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Yunus Mussa, is facing charges of assault after a taxi driver claims that he was ‘slapped’ by Mussa. According to a report on Maravi Post, Mussa who is also vice president of ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) slapped Christopher Kamera when he honked his car horn after a […]
Malawi government has directed all its cabinet ministers to immediately relinquish their official Mercedes Benz vehicles so that they are used by the top visiting delegates during the 15th summit of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). The vehicles will specifically be used by the heads of State and Government, vice presidents and […]
Malawi’s president Bingu wa Mutharika has hired a new 32-member cabinet, including himself and wife First Lady Calista Mutharika. State vice president Joyce Banda’s name is conspicuously missing from the new list. According to a list of the new ministers read out on state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), there are several prominent members of the […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) have added their voice to call on President Bingu wa Mutharika to expeditiously appoint a “meritorious” cabinet, having dissolved one on August 19, 2011. The two civil society organizations express their “fears and concerns” in a joint statement made available […]
By Judith Moyo, Nyasa Times President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, is earmarked for the post of the country’s second vice president in the forthcoming cabinet, according to well-place sources, but a legal expert has warned that the move will be against the law. A Lilongwe-based lawyer said a legal battle would ensue if President […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has dissolved his bloated cabinet. State broadcaster MBC reported on Friday evening that Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has directed that all former minsters must return government assets entrusted to them due to the portfolio. “His Excellency the President Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa […]