Environmental activist Godfrey Mfiti has maintained that exploration and drilling of oil on Lake Malawi should not be rushed until the country put enabling legislation to govern the country’s natural resources. Mfiti, who is also a senior official at Wild and Environmental Society of Malawi (Wesm), said licences government awarded to oil exploration companies were based on […]
In recent media reports from Malawi it has emerged that a senior cabinet minister George Chaponda was chased from a development meeting by angry community members. The Minister of Agriculture and also responsible for water development in company of his principle secretary in the ministry were not allowed to address local communities on a proposed […]
The World Heritage Center has asked Malawi government to withdraw oil exploration in Lake Malawi, protesting the decision to grant an exploration concession at a world heritage site, the Lake Malawi National Park. In a letter dated July 29, 2016 sent through Malawi Charge de affairs in Brussles, Belgium Joseph Chiteyeye, the Director of World […]
The United Nations since 2011 adopted the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for all member states. Business, Companies and Projects need to comply with human rights in their operations. The requirement is for businesses of all sectors to do Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) before embarking on any new projects or products. Nyasa […]
The government of Malawi lifted the oil ban on Lake Malawi in February, 2016. Ever since then the government of Malawi has not explained to the citizenry on why it decided to lift the suspensions. It is noted that the government of Malawi in November, 2014 put a ban on oil exploration in Malawi pending […]
Environmental Activist Godfrey Mfiti is leading a campaign that is persuading Malawi Government to withdraw Oil exploration and drilling Plans on Lake Malawi. He has been having a series of public lecturers and currently mobilizing the local chiefs along the Lakeshore to resist oil drilling in Lake Malawi. Nyasa Times engaged Mfiti for an exclusive […]
Environmental Activist Godfrey Mfiti who is trying to persuade Malawi goverment to shelve its plans for oil drilling in Lake Malawi has been consulting local people along the Lake. Over the end of last December the environmental activist has been meeting local business owners and residents along the Lake Malawi shores. He has been seeking […]
On 9th December, 2015 the daily Nation newspaper reported that Malawi government is still undecided on whether to explore oil or not in Lake Malawi. The media report quotes the official communication from Malawi Government to World Heritage center offices in Paris, France. The official Communication originated from the Secretary of Sports and Culture .The […]
A local environmental activist Godfrey Mfiti is persuading government to cancel oil exploration in Lake Malawi, saying it is categorised as a World Heritage site which could seriously dent the country’s image in environmental conservation. “Oil exploration in Lake Malawi must be differred. It must be stopped. We need tools such as rules and regulations, […]
An environmental Rights Activist without Boarders who is also Director of Institute of Sustainable Development, Godfrey Mfiti has been appointed into a technical committee of six people to manage the Africa Great Lakes Conservation Network whose secretariat will be based in Kigali-Rwanda. The Network is represented by experts from all the eleven Great Lakes Countries […]
Malawi risks being blacklisted for failure to comply International Conventions, according to an environmental activist in Southern Africa, Godfrey Mfiti who is also the Director of Institute of Sustainable Development in Malawi. Malawi being a state party to the 1972 world heritage convention has breached the convention by embarking on oil exploration on World Heritage […]