Chakwera appoints Chaima Banda chief strategy advisor, Lembani as policy aide

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera appointed Chris Chaima Banda and Dr Samson Lembani as chief advisor on strategy, manifesto implementation and public policy respectively, Nyasa Times understands. The two will assume the their duties  with immediate effect. Lembani, as public policy and governance aide, will also be advising the President on civil society organisations (CSOs) , […]

Development economist weighs in on MEC account: ‘No wonder Malawi has title of being world’s poorest nation’

A development economist has said the clarification from Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), the Accountant General and FDH Bank, on the electoral body having a bank account named after the title of its controlling officer, the chief elections officer (CEO), is left wanting. Chris Chaima Banda, a vevelopment economist and long serving British civil service technocrat, told […]

MCP’s UK members  raise cash for election monitors as diaspora pastors endorse Chakwera

Malawi Congress Party (MCP)  Diaspora Wing over the weekend raised money  through a gala dinner event  held in Birmingham to help the party allocate election monitors in all the polling stations at the May 21 Tripartite Election. According to the spokesman of MCP Diaspora Wing, Chalo Mvula , the Birmingham event was to cement the […]

Chaima Banda enter races for PP’s vice president post

Chris Chaima Banda has entered the race for ruling People’s Party (PP) position of Vice President, at the party’s first ever convention to be held on August 27, 2012 in Blantyre. Banda’s bid is shaking up an already heated race that is emerging as a contest between Home Affairs Minister Uladi Mussa, Energy Minister and Former […]