Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima will travel to Dar-Es-Salaam to attend President-elect John Pombe Magufuli’s inauguration on Wednesday in the Tanzanian capital. Magufuli, a former chemistry teacher who celebrated his 56th birthday on Thursday as results were announced, ran on an anti-corruption platform, and secured a convincing victory over his closest rival, ex-prime minister Edward […]
President Peter Mutharika Tuesday categorically ruled out Malawi going to war with neighbouring Tanzania over the disputed border over Lake Malawi but insisted the issue of the lake, Africa’s third largest fresh-water lake, is non-negotiable. Mutharika made the remarks Tuesday in Lilongwe when he addressed a news conference two days after his return from Washington […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has invited Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete to visit Malawi to cement the bonds of good relationship between the two neighbouring countries and resolve the wrangle between the two countries over Lake Malawi ownership. Since the wrangle began following Malawi’s prospecting for oil in Lake Malawi through an international firm, Surestream, […]
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete says his country will not engage in any war with Malawi as a means to resolve the border dispute on Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania) but disclosed a plan to purchase a new ship that will operate at the lake. Tanzanian newspapers are reporting that Kikwete made […]
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, South African President Jacob Zuma and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete are confident of the leadership of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to be handed over to Malawi at the two-day annual summit in Lilongwe. SADC’s current vice chairperson Dr Joyce Banda and President of Malawi will take over the chair […]
Tanzania is sabre-rattling and palpably and loudly beating the drums of war against peaceful Malawi over our jewel in the crown–Lake Malawi and this is being championed by no lesser mortal than President Jikaya Kikwete himself. The occasion could not have been grander to whip up emotions and put nationalistic energies on a collision course […]
Tanzania President Jakaya Kimwete in a speech to mark the country’s national heroes’ day celebrations on Thursday, raised the stakes in an escalating border dispute with Malawi by saying its armed forces were ready to protect the country against any foreign threat to its territory. “Anyone who tries to provoke our country will face consequences … Our […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday met leaders of various political parties at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre in second round of consultative meeting on the border wrangle with Tanzania, Nyasa Times learnt. State House press officer Brian Banda confirmed when asked by Nyasa Times that the meeting took place and included Leader of Opposition John […]
The border dispute in Lake Malawi (Nyasa) continues to make headlines as Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete has said his country deserves equal share in the lake because Tanzania rivers are some of the largest tributaries emptying into the lake. President Kikwete is quoted by Tanzania media that in his month-end address to the nation, he argued […]