Agree to disagree! Malawi and Tanzania on Saturday confirmed talks collapsed on the long-running border dispute over Lake Malawi, thought to sit over rich oil and gas reserves, on matters of principle. Malawi claims sovereignty over the entirety of Lake Malawi, Africa’s third-largest lake, while Tanzania says it is entitled to 50 percent of it. Lake […]
Malawian President Joyce Banda three-day state visit to has been cancelled, Nyasa Times learnt on Tuesday. President Banda was scheduled to arrive in Lusaka on Tuesday and was expected to attend Zambia’s 48th independence celebrations on Wednesday. But she did not show up at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, where both Zambian government officials and Malawian […]
Malawi government has asked United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to mediate the decades-long border dispute with Tanzanian over Lake Malawi believed to have oil deposits.. In the standoff Tanzania is claiming half of the Lake which is called Lake Nyasa in Tanzania. But Malawi claims the entire Lake basing on 1890 Anglo-German treaty […]
The second session of the South Africa-Malawi Joint Commission for Cooperation (JCC) begins in South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria (Tshwane) on Friday, September 7. The session is expected to be co-chaired by South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, and his Malawian counterpart, Ephraim Mganda Chiume, who is leading the Malawi […]
Former presidential legal counsel, Allan Ntata, has alleged that Foreign Affairs Minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume was “an instigator” of the alleged coup d’état to deny President Joyce Banda from ascending to power when president Bingu wa Mutharika died in April. Chiume served as Justice Minister in the Mutharika administration. Speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk […]
The eight -day Malawi and Tanzania boarder diplomatic discussions that ended on Saturday in Lilongwe Capital City, was stalled, forcing the high-level government representatives to pursue, further, the misunderstanding from September 10, 2012 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This was expressed at a news Conference, Saturday, in a communiqué that was produced and signed by […]
Police on Thursday arrested two freelance journalists who went to cover the ongoing diplomatic border talks between Malawi and Tanzania at the Mzuzu Hotel accusing them of publishing false news. The dispute stems from colonial-era border lines around Lake Malawi, Africa’s third-largest. The main task of this meeting of experts is for the two sides […]
Malawi’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume has warned experts from Malawi and Tanzania to avoid careless statements in their discussions to iron out the border wrangle between the two countries over Lake Malawi. “It is very easy for the discussions to break down and result in a stalemate. Let’s avoid […]
Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Minister Bernard Membe has said if Malawi and Tanzania fail to reach a compromise on the border misunderstanding, international bodies will come in to help but at no point will a bullet be fired by the two neibhoring countries. Membe made the reassuring disclosure at a breakfast meeting with […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ephraim Mganda Chiume says Tanzanian Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs Bernard Membe has assured him that his country will not “go to war” with Malawi over a border dispute in Lake Malawi, now poised to become a new oil and gas frontier. Chiume disclosed this in an interview with Malawi News […]
Tanzania has warned that it will be prepared to go to war with Malawi on the ownership of Lake Malawi, also referred to as Lake Nyasa by some countries, thought to have oil deposits. The two countries have scheduled August 20,this year, in Mzuzu — the northern city of Malawi -for showdown talks on the […]
SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMENTARY: The Daily Times has reported that Government Chief Whip Ephraim Mganda Chiume last week summoned some members of the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament (Pac) who are loyal to ruling People’s Party (PP) and lambasted them for rejecting President Joyce Banda’s recent appointees. The members confided in daily that their conviction remains […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume said on Friday that Malawi and Tanzania would resolve the border issue over Lake Malawi amicably. Briefing journalists through a prepared statement that he read at the Central Office of Information (COI) in Lilongwe, Chiume said Malawi was engaged in discussions with government of the […]
United States Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton will arrive in the country on Sunday 5th August. Clinton is visiting Malawi as part of her African tour that started in Senegal on Tuesday and will also take her to Uganda, Kenya and South Africa where she is expected to visit the home village of Nelson Mandela. According […]
Malawi is among 50 African countries participating in Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) ministerial conference in Beijing, China with trade and economic growth topping the list of agenda. The gathering, according to the People’s Republic of China Malawi Embassy, is vital platform for collective dialogue and effective mechanism for practical cooperation between China and Africa […]
Malawi never withdrew from hosting the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit, the Minister of Foreign Affairs clarified on Friday. Ephraim Chiume, speaking on the sidelines of the 21st ordinary session of the executive council made up of AU foreign ministers, also said Malawi invested heavily for the meeting, now under way in […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda says Malawians in the United Kingdom (UK) have a significant role to play in the development of the new Malawi by contributing effectively through various avenues in the social and economic growth. The Malawian leader made the appeal on Thursday at Claridges Hotel in Mayfair, London when she addressed an assemblage […]
Malawi Foreign Minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume and government officians will meet Malawians in Diaspora on Sunday June 3 in London. The Minister will be meeting Malawians living in the United Kingdom at the High Commission for the Republic of Malawi to discuss a wide range of issues . According to London community of Malawians – […]