Vendors in Limbe a business centre in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have called off their demonstrations scheduled for Wednesday that aimed to push President Joyce Banda’s administration to improve their business environment, after a northern region businessman a Watson Katawa Nyasulu gave them K700, 000. Nyasulu, who calls himself a concerned citizen, confirmed in an interview with Nyasa […]
Karonga vendors in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga have gone rampage forcing closure of shops and disrupting any business at around the market in protest against the failure by the district council authorities to reduce the recently hiked market fee. The Karonga District commissioner was refusing to meet the vendors who gathered outside his office. Malawi Police […]
The Zomba First Grade Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last week adjourned to Wednesday hearing of a case involving three Democratic People’s Party (DPP) loyalists suspected of staging unlawful demonstrations and illegal assembly in Zomba. The three are the party’s regional director for the youth Steven Bamusi, regional secretary for the youth Maxwell Finiasi and Yunus […]
The ongoing civil servants strike will take another turn on Wednesday as striking workers plan to take to the streets to protest against government’s reluctance to give in to their 67 percent salary hike demand and have threatened to close the country’s airports. “If government does not respond positively to our demands, civil aviation workers will join the strike which […]
Thousands of striking Malawi’s civil servants staged a demonstration in commercial capital in Blantyre to push the government to increase their salary and improve their working conditions. President Joyce Banda has been at presidential hill-top Sanjika Palace overlooking Blantyre city. The public servants converged at the government offices in the commercial city where they held the protest […]