Fifteen years ago today, Malawi endured two days of nationwide demonstrations that ended with government security forces killing more than 20 protesters — one of the darkest episodes in the country’s post-independence history, and one whose lessons, it seems, were never quite learned. The 2011 protests were not the work of a few disgruntled agitators. […]
A leading human rights activist in Malawi, Timothy Mtambo, has escaped unharmed after an apparent assassination attack when suspected regime thugs ambushed his vehicle near his home and rammed it. Mtambo, who is chairperson for the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), said he escaped assassination attempts on his life from suspected regime thugs and claims […]
Two prominent human rights defenders have in the past three weeks found strange messages on their vehicles and houses, a vindication that the Malawi government has secretly drawn a list of Human Rights Defenders whom it will ‘deal’ with before the end of 2012 as NyasaTimes reported earlier. Nyasa Times revealed that those topping the […]
Malawi NGOs have called on President Bingu wa Mutharika to stop its terror campaign against a growing band of critics concentrate on resolving the county’s social and economic woes or consider resigning. Addressing journalists in Mzuzu on Wednesday, the NGOs; Forum for New Direction (FOND), Youth Watch Society, Renaissance Solutions Centre and Church and Society […]
The Human Rights Defenders (Malawi Chapter) has asked the Malawi Human Rights Commission to independently investigate the role of Information Minister Patricia Kaliati played in relation to both the attack and eventual arrest of prominent lawyer and activist Ralph Kasambala. The garrulous Minister is on record to have stated that the arrest of Kasambala centers […]