Some active Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), activists and human rights defenders in Malawi have asked President Peter Mutharika to honourably consider resigning if he keeps on failing Malawians, accusing his administration of lacking vision and leadership in steering the nation from the brink of collapse. The CSOs’ who addressed a news conference in Lilongwe argue […]
Special advisor to the President on non-governmental organisations and civil society, Mavuto Bamusi, has accused the Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) of being “childish” by attacking President Peter Mutharika’s attitude on October 8 during a news conference. Mutharika has attracted criticism for uttering words such as ‘ng’we, ng’we, ng’we’, ‘stupid’, ‘nonsense’ and also banged a table […]
Civil society groups in Malawi are secretlly meeting to organise “peaceful and constitutional demonstrations” to force President Peter Mutharika to address the country’s deteriorating economic situation and protest that the President is increasingly becoming arrogant and intolerant. Sources close to the organising group confirmed the development but said details of the demonstration like places and […]
Civil Society leaders have called for a national policy which will ensure offering antiretroviral therapy (ART) earlier to people diagonised with HIV. The call was made in Lilongwe during a news conference organised by CSOs working in the area of HIV and Aids management. .They argued that failure to put proper policy of lifesaving drugs […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been accused of applying attention-diversion tactics from real issues affecting the nation. The human rights campaigners accuse Mutharika of using homosexuality and abortion issues as a tactic to divert the attention of Malawi from the endemic problems confronting the impoverished southern African country. The activists, who included Timothy Mtambo of […]
There is more competition among non-governmental organisations in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region than accountability and this has deterred the NGOs from pushing a common agenda for the more than 277 million people they purport to represent. For 11 years now, the Civil Society Forum, which the SADC Council of NGOs and its […]
Presidential Advisor on NGOs and Civil Society, Mavuto Bamusi has told civil society organisations in the country to adopt principles of integrity in their work. He said CSOs to adopt principles of integrity in a bid to bring positive change to the nation, warning against careless and personal orchestrated demonstrations. Bamusi made the call in […]
Civil Society organisations trading under the umbrella of National Taskforce on Millennium Development Goals, on Thursday pressed Government to conclude all cashgate cases to win back donors confidence. Malawi fell out of grace from the donor community following the looting of K92Billion from 2009 to 2012 and K13.6Billion from 2012 to 2014. The gruesome theft […]
Government has repeated its threats to deregister “noisy” non-governmental organisations that are operating without following proper procedures such as registering with the NGO Board. Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati commenting in the National Assembly on the budget for the NGOs responding to a question from Boniface Kadzamira and independent MP […]
The Malawi government through the NGO Board has warned again to shut down non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating “without following proper procedures”, mostly those that are critical to the administration. Those targeted include Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with Aids (Manelera) led by Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) whose Executive Director is […]
A coalition of Malawian civil society organization working on climate change and food security have petitioned the Egyptian and French governments to lobby them on the forthcoming Paris climate change summit, which will put in place a new international agreement to tackle climate change, to make sure that any agreement that will be reached at […]
Civil Society Organizations(CSOs) on Saturday took a swipe at President Peter Mutharika for being silent on issues involving the controversial the sale of Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). The CSOs leaders made the statements in Lilongwe when they held a news conference, renewing the claims that the move to sale the state-owned bank is aimed at […]
This statement serves as civil society’s response to the Press Statement from the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development on the issue of Recapitalization of the Malawi Savings Bank. The following is our rejoinder to the said statement. In our view, the statement glosses over clear demands from civil society which centre on the […]
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on Thursday petitioned Office of President and Cabinet asking it to quickly domesticate protocols which government has been signing. The petition is a reminder to government to fulfill various obligations to its citizens in various sectors such as, water, health, agriculture, and good roads. National Advocacy Platform of States of the Union (SOTU) […]
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights has written the Malawi government over allegations that regimeofficials have been intimidating activists who have been seeking for accountability for the National Aids Commission (NAC) financial abuses. At least 22 Civil Society Organisations in Malawi working in the realm of human rights, health and HIV/AIDS led mass […]
The Malawian Civil Society organisations have reported to the United Nations in Geneva the recent trends of attacks on people living with Albinism owhose body parts are prized in black magic, calling for more domestic and international response to end the malpractice which threatens human dignity. Malawi’s 10,000 albinos are in danger, as witch doctors claim “their limbs […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) met the UN rights committee in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday during the pre-session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and reported on the human rights situation in Malawi, mainly focusing on the discrimination of sexual minorities. Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) executive director Gift Trapence pleaded with the committee to impress on the […]
Malawi civil society organisations (CSOs) in the country are still pushing government to act on issues raised in their petition presented to President Peter Mutharika in January . The petition was presented to Mutharika after street protests in the capital Lilongwe, urging the Head of State to address numerous challenges which the country is facing. Centre […]