Students from Chancellor College in Zomba on Monday stage a strike to protest a recent tuition fee hike by the University of Malawi (Unima). However the students’ protests were met with police’s barriers and tear-gas. The protestors were calling for “affordable education”. “Our generation has been betrayed by this government in increases to tuition fees,” said […]
Malawi civil society organizations (CSOs) have maintained that they will go ahead to stage a nationwide peaceful demonstration over the prevailing political, economic, administrative and governance stalemate currently facing the country to be held on January 13 in all the major cities and selected districts. The Executive Director of the Centre for the Development of […]
Leader of a group of businesspersons who raised K5 million for First Lady Gertrude Mutharika’s Beautify Malawi (Beam) Trust to refund the grant to National Aids Commission (NAC), Bannet Chinsinga has urged the civil society organisations (CSOs) to cancel demonstrations planned for January 13, 2015 fearing the events could turn violent. The CSOs have scheduled the peaceful […]
Students of the University of Malawi are threatening to hold demonstrations if authorities will not meet their demands by January 5. Their demand includes the immediate reopening of the Polytechnic, Chancellor College and College of Medicine, and the increment on their upkeep allowance which currently stands at about MK32, 000 per month. In a statement the […]
January 13, 2015 business in Malawi cities and possibly other urban areas, will come to a standstill once again as the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have announced its the date they will take to the streets to protest against failure for First Lady Gertrude Mutharika seven days to return the money her organisation Beautify Malawi […]
Consumers rights activist, John Kapito has lambasted Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South, Allan Ngumuya for defending Blantyre Water Board’s inefficiency to provide water in Blantyre City. Kapito is on Thursday expected to lead consumers to demonstrate against BWB with Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) expected to present a petition to the utility provider on the […]
Malawi’s consumer watchdog, Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) is on Thursday next week scheduled to hold demonstration in protest against utility-service provider Blantyre Water Board (BWB) for its inefficiency in improving water scarcity currently at critical moment in Blantyre city. Aside the demonstrations, which will attract affected residents from the townships and residential areas within the […]
Malawi prominent rights groups have vowed to stage mass street protests against the administration of President Peter Mutharika if they fail to provide convincing answers for the economic turmoil facing the country. The Kwacha currency continues to be weakening as it is trading at about 520 to the dollar, down from 410 in September. Prices […]
Organizers of the much anticipated pro- federalism demonstrations in the Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga have postponed their scheduled demonstrations which were scheduled for Sunday to pave way for dialogue between them and government on various concerns affecting the region. The development comes barely a week after government banned the protests, a decision, later […]
Malawi human rights groups have condemned government authorities for criminalising peaceful demonstrations, describing the move as worrying, aggressive and censorious. Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep) have condemned government for its stand in banning pro-federalism demonstrations slated for 28 September, 2014 organised by the Karonga Youth for Justice and […]
Youths in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga whose notification to hold pro-federalism demonstrations was turned down by the District Commissioner, Rosemary Moyo, last Friday are challenging to go a head with the protests scheduled for September 28. Moyo downplayed the letter by the Karonga Youth for Justice and Development and other civil society organizations notifying her of the planned […]
Government authorities in Malawi’s northern district have denounced the planned demonstrations in favour of introduction of federal system of government as a plot against the state and accused the organisers of preparing for violence. Tutulane Palikimo Business Association and Karonga Youth for Justice and Development submitted a letter to the DC on Friday asking the authorities […]
Trinity College of Nursing and Midwifery students in Nsanje on Tuesday held peaceful demonstrations following misunderstandings that are there between the college management and the students on the allocation of allowances. Students who started boycotting classes accused the college authorities of only giving them K28, 000 per month when deployed for practical in various health facilities which […]
Last week a coalition of local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) organised and staged demonstrations in the commercial city of Blantyre. They were demonstrating against corruption and lack of transparency within Joyce Banda’s government. Specifically, the CSOs demands that Joyce Banda’s administration account for proceeds from the sale of the presidential jet; the CSOs are also […]
Malawi rights campaigners on Thursday held peaceful anti-government protest in the commercial hub Blantyre to press for quick action after an audit revealed officials had stolen at least K13 billion ( $30 million) from the state the corruption scandal which has been christened as cashgate. Hundreds braved the chilling weather to join leaders of Grand […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs), under the Grand Coalition for the Defence of Democracy and Good Governance, have announced that they will stage protests Thursday February 27 in the commercial capital Blantyre only to mark the start of a civil disobedience campaign against the Joyce Banda government. The activist want to pressurize government to among others disclose the […]
The Forum for National Development ( FND) which is a group believed to be bankrolled by the ruling People’s Party and operates under instructions from State House has spoken against planned anti-government demonstrations. Forum leaders told journalists in Lilongwe on Wednesday that organising street demonstration this time would create unnecessary tension ahead of the May 20elections. ”We know […]
Whether foreign interests or unnamed diplomats are behind the protests that some civil society organizations are planning to protest against the PP handling of the Cashgate and the proceeds from the sale of the presidential jet as alleged by Information Minister Brown Mpinganjira, is neither here or there. What should be of concern to the […]