Malawi government has maintained its stand that activists of working with “foreign elements” to promote instability and an agenda of regime change. On Tuesday Brown Mpinganjira, who is Minister of Information and Civic Education, in an interview with private-owned Zodiak Broadcasting Services accused the West of bankrolling civil society activists to hold mass protests over […]
Malawi Government spokesman Brown Mpinganjira has accused activists of working with the West to promote instability and an agenda of regime change. Mpinganjira, who is Minister of Information and Civic Education, accused the West of bankrolling civil society activists to hold mass protests over the cashgate corruption scandal and reports that proceeds of jet vanished. […]
Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) on Thursday successfully delivered its petitions to government authorities after demonstrations against the government’s failure to swiftly act on the plundering of public finances in what is known as cash-gate scandal. The poorly patronized but peaceful demonstrations which started from Parliament Building to the Capital Hill in Lilongwe were graced […]
A group calling themselves concerned consumers of the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (Escom) has warned of nationwide demonstrations over the parastatal’s “insensitivity to customer’s needs” among others. The concerned electricity users also observe that the load-shedding programme has deteriorated to intolerable levels, thereby affecting the economy in light of the government’s touted Economic Recovery […]
About 400 government drivers have threatened to march to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) to push for payment of their allowances after working during the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Summit. Some of the drivers were involved in driving the visiting Heads of State. The drivers since Monday have been assembling outside Civo Stadium […]
Human Rights Activist Moses Mkandawire has asked government to equip the Malawi Police Service with hardware to professionally deal the future demonstrations. Malawi police came under fire on the ‘unprofessional’ handling of the July 20 protests that left about 19 people dead and scores injured. Police admitted the use of live ammunition against unarmed citizens citing […]
Police top brass in the northern region on Monday shamelessly admitted ignorance about a group which they said made parallel planning to steal and loot during a police crackdown on demonstrations against President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government in July held in Mzuzu. “We overlooked that but as Police we were caught unawares,” Mzuzu Police Station […]