A local non-profit organisation, the Free Expression Institute, has honoured 24 Malawians and one organisation for their resolute contribution towards promotion of freedom of expression in the country. They were awarded with the Aretha Kamwendo Award, the Hardy Nyirenda Award and the Epiphania Bonjesi Award. Late Nyirenda was Malawi’s prolific columnist, and journalist who worked […]
Young school-going children and students aged between eight and and eighteen have a life-changing chance to win up to a whooping Mk100, 000 in a poetry writing competition, courtesy of the Free Expression Institute. Board member for Institute of Free Expression Institution (FEI) Martines Namingha disclosed this in Malawi’s at Lilongwe Hotel during a press […]
Free Expression Institute (FEI) a local independent civil society organization in the country will on July 20 this year honor and recognize individuals and organizations who have played an important role in the area of promotion and enhancement of freedom of expression in Malawi. FEI Chairperson Martins Naminga told journalists in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday that Malawians through […]
Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba has defended the actions of ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who booed and threatened to rough journalists for asking President Bingu wa Mutharika probing questions on Monday during the press conference at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe. The press conference was hijacked into a political rally for the DPP where […]
Last Monday’s events at the Kamuzu International Airport where President Bingu wa Mutharika was addressing the press must serve to remind all Malawians that while we consider our country to be a democracy, we are, as a matter of fact, only a whisker away from sliding back to the dark days of authoritarianism where the […]