One event that made headlines recently in Nigeria and beyond was the collapse of a Nigerian official during a televised parliamentary hearing as part of a probe into allegations of mismanagement at his organization. I bring that up for two reasons. Firstly, we know that Malawi, which has a brand-new government, is grappling with what […]
Finally. Finally! Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) head Jane Ansah is out after losing her court case challenging the decision by the Constitutional Court annulling last May’s presidential poll. Is the coast now clear? Ansah’s refusal to leave would have had a decisive influence on the outcome of the court-ordered fresh poll which we are yet […]
Let us switch gears this time around and do a bunch of different things together. We will see how it all works. Those who paid attention to what happened this past week heard about new degree programs in Gender Studies at a Malawi university. Then there was the story of top Civil Society leaders appointed […]
Former leader of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) John Tembo and Monsignor Boniface Tamani joined the federalism debate this past week and spoke more or less from the same script. Monsignor Tamani was quoted saying instead of working together to solve Malawi’s many development challenges, federalism proponents had “selfish reasons” for proposing that the country […]