Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika will not call for a referendum to renew his mandate as demanded by quasi-religious Public Affairs Committee (PAC), governing DPP secretary-general Wakuda Kamanga has said. PAC delegates called on Mutharika to resolve Malawi’s myriad economic and political problems immediately or call for a national referendum in 90 days to renew […]
The United States says Malawi government will affect its chances to get back to the US$ 350.7 million worth of assistance meant to revitalise the country’s faltering energy sector if it will hosts fugitive Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir at the June’s Africa Union summit. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. aid agency that rewards […]
Malawi Leader of Opposition, John Tembo, has demanded President Bingu wa Mutharika to change from being an autocrat to allow democracy and good governance or consider to step down. Tembo was reacting to an announcement by United States government that it has suspended $350 million allocated to Malawi through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The […]
It is official. The USA government has finally suspended the US$350 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) investment for Malawi sighting the impudence over last year’s visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, recent arrests of opposition and human rights leaders and inflammatory rhetoric by senior government officials as some of the major reasons for the suspension. […]
The US embassy in Malawi has announced that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) board meets this Thursday March 22 2012 in Washington to decide on the way forward for the Malawi Compact. Thus, the meeting this Thursday in Washington DC; is crucial for Malawi to know its future as regards this essential grant at the […]
A Kenyan governance expert, Professor Allan Odugo Mella, has tipped Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika to shed-off whom he has described as “bad friends” to avoid losing grip of his mandate to rule Malawians. The Pan African Politics Forum (PAPF) Executive Director says by holding to the same advisors who have dragged him into chaos, […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika should end a dispute with the World Bank and IMF to bring the country back from a worsening economic crisis, a visiting team of politicians from Britain, Malawi’s biggest aid donor, said on Wednesday. Mutharika, a former World Bank economist, last week snubbed a World Bank mission and has publicly […]
A senior U.S. official urged Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on Friday to respect his citizens’ right to freedom of expression, days after he accused Western donors of funding an opposition protest movement in his country. Mutharika told state radio on Sunday that the opposition planned to stage demonstrations in March financed by foreign donors […]
A delegation of six members from cross-party grouping of parliamentarians from all major parties in the UK, International Development Committee (IDC), will visit Malawi from 12-14th March to review the fragile situation in the country. The six MPs to visit Malawi, will be led by Liberal Democrats MP, Malcolm Bruce, Chair of the Committee and they are expected to meet Cabinet ministers, […]
Presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi on Sunday took a swipe at the state sponsored graft busters Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for what he called intimidation of lawyers in the country. He was referring to an incident where two lawyers, Wapona Kita and Lusungu Gondwe of Ralph & Arnolds Law Firm who were recently summoned by ACB on allegations that they […]
The U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, has commenced a five-nation Africa tour that will take her to Malawi to tackle issues of governance, which is the shortfall of the President Bingu wa Mutharika administration The tour which begins on March 3 is to end on March 11, will also take her to […]
The National Initiative for Civic Education (Nice) risks losing funding from the European Union due to government interference in its governance. The government has been running the organisation contrary to its Constitution. The EU Head of Delegation in Alexander Baum has said the EU is ready to fund Nice if all parties adhere to the […]
Influential Roman Catholic Church has urged its faithful to pray for the worsening economic and governance conditions in the country, according to a Lenten pastoral letter issues by the Episcoporal Conference of Malawi (ECM). The letter signed by ECM chairperson , His Grace, Right Rev. Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza, was released on ‘Ash Wednesday’ kicking […]
Former Malawi football coach, Dane Kim Splidsboel, decided to pay tribute to former Malawi National Council of Sports boss, late Jarvis Chakumodzi, through Nyasa Times on Monday. Chakumodzi passed away on Thursday morning at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, and his remains were interred last Friday at St Pius Catholic cemetery in Blantyre. Posting a comment […]
Malawians of concern to their country have been asked to collectively stand up, resist and fight recent advances by President Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration which signify a blatant abuse and total disregard of human rights and the rule of law that are steadily taking the country back to the dark days of autocratic rule. The […]
A series of online lectures: Are you in despair because of the injustice we are experiencing in Malawi? Are you immobilised because you don’t know what to do to have the status quo changed? If your answers to the above questions are yes then you are the right student to grace these teachings. Welcome to the online class! Well, cast your eyes around the […]
One of the obvious reasons for Malawi’s fight for democracy was for people to get back their freedoms which were denied by Dr Kamuzu Banda’s dictatorship. As it were, of more important is the freedom of expression through which alternative views for running the country can be offered. To start with it must be mentioned […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has vehemently rejected claims that southern African nation is sliding towards full-blown dictatorship. Mutharika in an exclusive interview published with the British broadsheet daily, The Guardian, he dismissed claims that he was becoming more autocratic and intolerant to criticism. “It’s total nonsense because there’s no country in sub-Saharan Africa that […]