Malawians are bracing for fresh unrest after the main activists under the banner of Youth for Change unveiled plans for a series of demonstrations with opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) notorious youth cadets set to join in looting and violence. Youth for Change has announced plans for nationwide protests on July 13 against President Lazarus […]
President Peter Mutharika was on Friday June 5 counting post-election protest violence costs, saying it cost the country a whopping K62 billion. In his recorded state of the nation address to parliament, Mutharika said the political violence disrupted businesses, undermined revenue collection and slowed down the economy. “I must report to this Assembly that the […]
Protesters clashed with riot police in Lilongwe on Tuesday, breaking into the First Capital Bank (formerly First Merchant Bank) and smashing its windows in what clearly was a violent post- election demonstration. Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) organised the fresh round of protests in the streets of the main cities to force Malawi Electoral […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has this Tuesday morning served a ruling by judge Kenyatta Nyirenda who had dismissed Attorney General (AG) application seeking a court order to stop the same. Lawyer for HRDC Khwima Mchizi confirmed that after a night of suspense, the court served the ruling Tuesday morning around 6am. Mchizi said HRDC […]
The civil society organisations (CSOs) have accused President Peter Mutharika of inaction to their petition delivered after the September 21 anti-government demonstrations across the country’s four cities and have written the Head of State giving him 20 days ultimatum to respond. In their petition delivered in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba cities, the petitioners, among other […]
Civil society organisations (CSO) on Wednesday led street protests on critical issues if national importance including the prevailing extended power outages and petitioned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to end the blackouts that is affecting the economic fabric of the nation. The protestors who carried placard which read ‘Escom Mwalephera’ [Escom you have failed […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have described the fresh cashgate deals busted through flawed maize purchase procedures from Zambia as disturbing, and have said they will go to the streets for protests as they since demanded that all contracts between the Government of Malawi be suspended with immediate effect. The CSOs – Youth and Society (YAS), […]
A nationwide peaceful demonstration will be held to force President Peter Mutharika to dismiss Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Thapatula Chaponda who is officially under probe by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on corruption and abuse of office. Chaponda is implicated in the Zambia maize procurement saga. A commission of inquiry which […]
Malawi Land Bill Demonstration video is here.
About 13 members of the Mzuzu Youth Association (MYA) have been arrested Monday morning in Mzuzu for reportedly holding anti-government protests and allegedly criticising President Peter Mutharika. Police in Mzuzu could not make immediate comment on the arrest, but Nyasa Times has physically confirmed their nabbing. The 13 were arrested around Katoto Secondary School area where they […]
Some civil rights leaders in Malawi are organising to hold a protest march on March 10 to force the government release maize in Admarc depots for starving Malawians and improve the ailing economy that has skyrocketed the cost of living. Billy Mayaya, one of the organisers of the peaceful march said it is a Republican […]
Business went as usual in the Capital City Lilongwe as Malawians held peaceful demonstrations to express anger over dwindling of health service delivery in Malawi hospitals although there was drama as the two parallel demonstrators with different issues delivered their petition to authorities. The Tuesday demonstrations took place and finished without serious incidents of violence […]
Union President of Lilongwe Technical College, Promise Chidothi said he does not see any future for the much touted rural technical colleges the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Government says it is implementing if it is failing to take care of the already existing technical colleges, such as the Lilongwe Technical College. He was speaking Thursday […]
One of Malawi’s leading human rights and governance organisation Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has said Malawians can directly access the African Court on Human and Peoples rights on various human rights violations following Malawi’s deposition of the Declaration of the African Court Protocol. Until recently, only 7 member states of the African […]
Malawi civil society organisations who are planning peaceful protests on January 13 against “bad leadership” have condemned what they call government-orchestrated propaganda to demonise demonstrations, saying that is contrary to the freedom of expression. The CSOs are organising the demonstration over the prevailing political, economic, administrative and governance stalemate currently facing the country to be held […]
Civil Society Organisations in Malawi have expressed their displeasure over what they described as bad governance of the state that is leading to the prevailing economic challenges and that their planned January 13 anti-government demonstrations will go ahead. In a statement endorsed by 20 leading Civil Society Organisations working in the realm of human rights, […]
People in Malawi’s lake shore district of Mangochi are up in arms against a US$50 million hotel and golf course project which multinational company Mota Engil plans in the area. The communities mainly around Monkey Bay, a lake shore town and a proposed area of the project, are fearing that almost 20,000 people will be […]
Police on Friday used tear gas and shot into the air as they tried to disperse over hundreds of teachers for staging a peaceful demonstration over their delayed allowances payment by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). The march, in the capital Lilongwe, was called by teachers from Lilongwe Rural East, Lilongwe Urban and Lilongwe Rural […]