Malawi flagship online news platform, Nyasa Times has named Mzuzu-baded governance and youth rights advocate Charles Kajoloweka as its 2017 Person of the Year. Announcing the 2017 ‘person of the year’, Nyasa Times editorial management said the publication sought nomination from various reputable commentators and analysts to nominate and give reasons. Nyasa Times said the 32-year-old Mzuzu University graduate deserved to […]
Mzuzu-based political analyst Charles Kajoloweka, who has been one of the vocal campaigner of governance and rights, has said the statements made by President Peter Mutharika at the launch of the National Peace Policy as part of the commemorations for the International Day of Peace, were refreshening and should be encouraged with leaders walking the talk to […]
Mzuzu-based outspoken human righs and governance activist Charles Kajoloweka has accused Malawi’s Minister of Home Affairs Grace Obama Chiumia for her role in ambushing and and ordering the arrest of 42 National Registration Bureau (NRB) members of staff who on Sunday over alleged conspiracy to commit a crime and felony and unlawful assembly. Out of […]
Five civil society organisations (CSOs) pushing the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to refund money from some State enterprises have resolved to proceed with their intention to sue the party, saying they are terminating the dialogue process. CSOs, through their lawyer Wesley Mwafulirwa, that the party secretary general Greselder Jefffrey wa Jeffrey that they have noticed “lack […]
Presidential aide and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for Central Regio, Dr Hetherwick Ntaba has adamantly said his party will not pay back all the money parastatals and other government agencies gave it during its fundraising event called Blue Night recently in Lilongwe. Ntaba has since called the demand by Mzuzu-based Youth and Society (YAS) executive […]
Leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera has said the nation is “integrity challenged” with the worsening corruption according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI). Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader, said President Peter Mutharika should be “decisive” in tackling corruption and stop treating some as “sacred cows” if […]
Executive Director for Youth and Society (YAS) Charles Kajoloweka has advised suspended Agriculture, Irigation and Water Development Minister D George Chaponda to ‘adhere to a court’ decision issued on Monday 17th January 2017 at the Mzuzu High Court sustaining the injunction stopping him from discharging his duties as Cabinet minister. High Court Judge John Chirwa, […]
Human rights campaigners have called for the protection of activists Charles Kajoloweka and private practice lawyer Wesley Mwafulirwa who have received death threats. It is believed regime thugs have sent the threats after they applied for a judicial review of President Peter Mutharika’s decision not to suspend Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George […]
Human rights activist Charles Kajoloweka who is founder and Executive Director of Mzuzu based Organization Youth and Society (YAS) with backing from three other Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) have declared Tuesday 17th January 2017 as “Black Tuesday”. This is the first day the Maizegate scandal case enters an inter-party hearing at the Mzuzu High Court after Malawi […]
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have warned public officials both elected and appointed that they are being watched and will account for their omissions or commission when discharging their duties arguing that nobody is above law. The CSOs said they have enhanced their watchdog role claiming there is a total collapse of state accountability institutions in […]
Taxpayer-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) must move with haste and institute a probe into alleged private company sponsored torture and gross abuse of human rights which has continued unabated since 2015 at the 53,000-hectare man-made Viphya forest plantation in northern Malawi. Anecdotal evidence, several sources and a company official have all confirmed the development by […]
Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka has condemned last week’s arrest a 15-year-old boy Henry Chirwa for allegedly carrying a maize stalk at President Peter Mutharika’s rally at Luwinga in Mzuzu, describing police move as acting “foolishly”. The boy, a son of Bishop Thomson Chirwa of Abundant Life Ministry in Mzuzu, spent a night in a […]
About 9 000 students of Mzuzu University (Mzuni) and the Polytechnic — a constituent of the University of Malawi — should brace for more home time as the civil action the students resorted to Wednesday promises no light at the end of the tunnel. While Mzuni has been closed for about a month now over staff’s demands […]
Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati has said protesters of the University of Malawi (Unima) fee hike who included students and civil society organisations (CSOs) were miserable lot despite forcing President Peter Mutharika to order a K50 000 reduction in the fees from a minimum of K400 000 to K350 000 per student per year. The protesters […]
Some members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) have taken part in a “peaceful” protest against raising tuition fees at against University of Malawi (Unima) and called for the reopening of Chancellor College in Zomba. The CSOs proceeded with the demos while President Peter Mutharika was having n audience to University of Malawi Students Union […]
It never rain but pours for Peter Mutharika led-government amid the controversial University of Malawi (UNIMA) fee hike as 10 civil society organisations have organized nationwide protests as a desperate attempt to force President Peter Mutharika as UNIMA Chancellor to veto decisions that have culminated into the current stalemate. The protests will be held on […]
Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka has revealed a lot of foul play is taking place at the Viphya Plantation (Chikangawa Forest) – shared between the districts of Nkhata Bay and Mzimba – involving the illegal sale of trees, and has since called for an ‘audit’ into the dealings at the plantation so […]
Malawi human rights activist and Youth and Society (YAS) director Charles Kajoloweka has been selected for the flagship program of the US President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), which aims to bring 500 most promising young leaders in Africa under the age of 35 to the White House and top U.S. universities for a period […]