The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators have filed a fresh application for permission to the Blantyre City Council to hold peaceful demonstration on January 13 2021. Cdedi and the business operators had initially planned to hold the protests on January 8 2021. But according to CDEDI […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has questioned the decision by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dr. Wilson Banda, to keep quiet while officials at the central bank are leaking results of the forensic audit at the central bank. Nyasa Times understands that the central bank has been conducing […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has protested the decision by the Tonse Alliance-led government to change the fiscal year from July—June cycle, arguing it was made without a nod from the people who put the administration in government. However, CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, who addressed journalists in Lilongwe on Thursday, […]
Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda on Monday engaged the leadership of Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Lilongwe and Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators in a discussion to find a lasting solution to the proliferation of illegal immigrants plying their businesses in Malawi. The meeting comes barely a few […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Lilongwe and Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators are set to take to the streets beginning December 16, 2020, to protest the decision by President Lazarus Chakwera to ignore their call to take action on illegal immigrants who are plying trade in the country’s strategic […]
The struggle civil servant-cum-politician Vincent Wandale started in his desperate attempt to reclaim the land from estate owners Mulanje and Thyolo has resurfaced, but this time with the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) leading the battle. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa has given President Lazarus Chakwera 14 days to deal with the […]
Some State House gurus have reportedly hired a horde of mercenary scribes and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) social media enthusiasts to propagate a smear campaign against Kuwait Dynamic/Fisd joint venture, which was the lowest bidder in the controversial K10 billion Southern Region Water Board (SRWB) project. SRWB recently awarded a contract to Alghanim International General […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has accused President Lazarus Chakwera of playing hypocrites for failing to come out clear on how it spends government money on public events. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, in a statement issued on Thursday, cites failure by Chakwera to disclose how much the government spent on […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has said the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) should carry out an investigation into the procurement process that led to the awarding of a contract to Jiangsu Suzhong Construction Group Company Limited by the Southern Region Water Board (SRWB) that s K1.6 billion higher than the lowest […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked President Lazarus Chakwera to denounce acts of mob justice as the country is degenerating into a lawless state. CDEDI executive director, Sylvester Namiwa said in a statement issued on Monday following the brutal killing of an elderly woman in Dedza district on witch-craft allegations. […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has expressed fear that the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is intending to use the newly registered Kokoliko Holdings Limited to siphon public funds and monopolises government business to the party’s coffers. The organization has since challenged MCP information technology (IT) specialist Daud Suleman and his Kokoliliko youth crew, […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has written the Attorney General (AG), Dr Chikosa Silungwe, expressing its shock with the way the State apparatus is handling suspects believed to have committed multiple offences during the immediate former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration. While congratulating the government chief legal advisor for demonstrating […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has urged President Lazarus Chakwera to take advantage of his government’s first national budget as a jumpstart towards delivering the campaign promises the Tonse Alliance made in the run-up to the fresh presidential election on June 23 2020. The CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa said while his organization […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has written Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for urgent assistance to about 60 Malawian citizens who have been stranded for about three (3) months in the People’s Republic of China and desire to return home. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa says it has come […]
The emerging vibrant civil society organisation Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked President Lazarus Chakwera to expedite appointments of boards of parastatal organizations, fearing any delay would create a breeding ground for corruption and bribery. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa told journalists in Lilongwe Wednesday morning that his organization is concerned […]
Well! You will be rightly forgiven for thinking that Malawi as a nation is another Travelling Theatre Company.The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) is scheduled to move the courts for contempt of court against government over the gazetting of the subsidiary legislation on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) preventive measures. CDEDI acting executive director […]
A civil rights group Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (Cdedi) has called for a probe into the sale of a presidential jet by the Joyce Banda administration in 2013. Cdedi says the Lazarus Chakwera government must probe the matter despite the fact that Banda is part of the Tonse alliance led government. Acting executive […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked the Tonse Alliance-led to waive conditions for the administration of pension funds as one of the measures to mitigate the suffering some Malawians are going through after losing their jobs due to coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. CDEDI acting executive director Sylvester Namiwa believes waiving […]