Nkhata Bay North member of Parliament (MP) Ephraim Mganda Chiume (People’s Party-PP) has frantically pleaded with the government to repay a debt of K30 billion to private sector, saying the continuous withholding of the money is choking the already ailing economy. Chiume, a former minister of Foreign Affairs during the Joyce Banda administration and also Minister of […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume Wednesday told Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) delegates that government has successfully exposed those that were involved in Capital Hill looting. Chiume was speaking during the opening of a two-day Extra Ordinary Council of Ministers Meeting for the SADC region underway at Capital Hotel in […]
Residents of the Malawi’s northern lakeshore area of Usisya, are demanding ruling People’s Party authorities to stop the party’s regional chairperson for the north, Frank Mwenefumbo, from forming parallel structures of PP in the area, to avoid wrangles that might arise among supporters of the aspiring candidates. Mwenefumbo and some regional committee officials have been […]
Malawi and Tanzania will engage the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to amicably resolve the ongoing Lake Malawi border issue should they be dissatisfied by recommendations made by mediators, former Heads of State and Government Sadc Forum. Foreign affairs and international cooperation minister, Ephraim Mganda Chiume told delegates at the 9th Southern Africa Civil Society […]
Senior Chief M’bwana of Usisya a tourism attraction town in the northern lake shore district of Nkhatabay is seeking refuge at unknown location for fear of being beaten up by irate supporters of his area’s Parliamentarian Ephraim Mganda Chiume, Nyasa Times understands. The chief is said to have riffled the feather of Chiume – who […]
Malawi Government has admitted that the newly constructed five star hotel in Lilongwe will not be ready to offer accommodation during the forthcoming Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) as earlier planned. The managers of the facility have been under pressure from the Malawi Government to ensure that rooms in the facility are ready to accommodate […]
Chiefs in the northern Malawi’s lakeshore area of Usisya in Nkhata-bay district are raged with anger and disappointment over President Joyce Banda’s decision to visit Chikwina instead of earlier schedule of visiting Usisya which is the headquarters of the area, during her northern region tour which is expected to start on Monday. President Banda is among […]
Late President Bingu wa Mutharika prided himself as being Mr Unpredictable and we can perhaps proclaim President Joyce Banda as ‘Mrs Undecided’. Barely four days after the Malawi leader hinted that continuing with mediation talks in the border dispute with Tanzania was a waste of time, her administration has made a sudden turnaround saying Malawi […]
Speaking to Global Business Leaders at World Economic Forum in Davos on 23 January 2013, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame told a panel discussion that to change the global perception of Africa as a trouble hotspot, its story “must” start to be narrated by Africans. President Kagame observed that there was a major problem in that the Africa’s […]
Malawi government has vowed that it will “vigorously” defend its Lake Malawi, saying the lake border disputes with Tanzania will move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands if mediation by three former African leaders fail. Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation Minister, Ephraim Mganda Chiume, told a trade and investment forum in […]
Former presidential legal advisor Allan Ntata has has said there is a lot that is missing in the Commission of Inquiry report to support criminal convictions and expressed surprise at his inclusion among the dozen people charged with treason over an alleged coup plot in the aftermath of the death of former Malawi president Bingu […]
Malawi Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ephraim Mganda Chiume had a scheduled meeting on Friday with retired Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano in Maputo, Mozambique over the prolonged Lake Malawi boarder dispute with Tanzania amid oil exploration. Chissano, who is also the Chairperson of Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government, is […]
The Malawi government is condemning Tanzanian officials for making sentiments, which it says are in breach of the agreement of resolving the Lake Malawi boarder claim. Tanzanian media quoted the country’s foreign affairs minister Benard Membe saying that the SADC former Heads of State Forum will decide ownership of the lake which will rest the […]
Zomba Ntonya MP Ted Salule Masangwi (DPP) on Monday raised the issue in Parliament that President Joyce Banda blew $92,000 (about K34 million) for 3-day foreign trip in Equitorial Guinea last week when social sectors such as health are facing fiscal crisis. The President went to Equatorial Guinea to attend the Africa-South America day-long summit. […]
Malawi Government authorities have submitted the country’s official position to the Africa Forum for Former Heads of State and Government over the ongoing border dispute with Tanzania over Lake Malawi. Malawi’s foreign affairs minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume made the submission on Thursday to the Chairperson of the Forum and Former President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano […]
Mozambique’s former president Joachim Chissano has agreed to mediate a border dispute over Lake Malawi amid oil exploration, Nyasa Times understands. Malawi and Tanzania last week made a joint submission to the Africa Forum for former Presidents to mediate on their dispute over the boundary along Lake Malawi. A delegation of the two countries delivered a […]
Opposition parties in the country have agreed to work with Government on Malawi/ Tanzania boarder dispute, saying that government is handling the issue with maturity. Leader of Opposition in the house, John Tembo said as opposition they will not allow even a small portion of Malawi to be taken by other countries. “This issue was […]
President Joyce Banda maintains that the entire Lake Malawi belongs to Malawians as stipulated in the information and data they have retrieved and has substantial and legal signatures by the colonial masters. “Since I was born, the information I got from my ancestors was that Lake Malawi belongs to Malawi. And indeed Lake Malawi belongs […]