The presidents of Mozambique and Malawi signed an electricity agreement Saturday in a first step to restore troubled relations between the two southern African neighbours. The heads of state agreed in the Mozambican capital Maputo to revive a plan to supply electricity from Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam to its energy-starved neighbour. “In Malawi we […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume, has for the first time, come out in the open and revealed how as Minister of Justice he stopped a ‘Constitutional Coup Plot’ that the DPP top brass wanted following former President Bingu wa Mutharika’s death on 5th April 2012. Chiume told a jam packed Usisya […]
Malawi’s minister of justice, Ephraim Chiume on Tuesday told parliament that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s first Attorney General turned stern critic, Ralph Kasambara, should be released on police bail because he is not fit and well to continue being on ‘detention without trial.’ Police later brought bail papers for Kasambara admitted at Mwaiwathu Hospital for heart […]
The High Court in Blantyre has turn into a prayer house by the striking judiciary junior staff. The Nyasa Times visit to the premise found the striking staff in prayers, which attracted the attention of passersby. By the look of things, the judiciary staff, which comprised mostly of court clerks, reporters and messengers, seem to […]
Catholic bishops meeting in Lilongwe last week told off government representatives Nicholas Dausi and Ephraim Chiume, both cabinet ministers and Catholics, to stop bothering the church with cheap politics. President Bingu wa Mutharika sent the two to register government’s concern to the bishops that one of their priests, Father Piergiorgio Gamba of Montfort media wanted […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has bowed down to pressure by ordering that Malawi Law Commission to review some of the repressive laws including a ban on homosexual acts, Justice Minister Ephraim Chiume has said. Chiume said provisions of the penal code concerning “indecent practices and unnatural acts” would be reviewed. “In view of the sentiments […]
Malawi Diaspora Forum says it welcomes government for “listening” to suggestions to repeal unpopular laws during the forthcoming session of Parliament. There have been calls from opposition parties, media, civil society including a social justice and advocacy arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi -CCJP to repeal the bad laws enacted by the Bingu wa […]