Malawi Congress Party (MCP), financial spokesperson Joseph Njovuyalema has gone against the undertaking by his party president John Tembo not oppose current government when he accused President Joyce Banda of travelling too much at the expense of tax payers . MP for Lilongwe-Mapuyu South, who also tore apart government’s financial plan for 2012/13 unveiled last Friday, […]
Malawi’s opposition in parliament has accused the ‘haste decision’ by the President Joyce Banda’s administration last week to cancel the African Union (AU) summit after it refused to welcome Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a war crimes suspect. The summit’s scheduled July 9-16 has now been moved to Ethiopia, according to the chairman of the AU’s permanent […]
Malawi opposition lawmakers walked out of parliament Tuesday in protest on what they termed “sarcasm” and the unparliamentarily words coming from Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Margaret Roca Mauwa. The members of parliament complained that Mauwa remarks were demeaning them when standing on a point of order, used the word “kukanyela” Malawi lingua franca Chichewa for “shit.” The MPs demanded that the Deputy Minister to withdraw […]
Malawi government on Thursday conceded it made an error on point of law to relocate the Chinese funded national stadium project, which was supposed to be built between Area 47 and 49 in Lilongwe, to Blantyre. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Mchinji North East, Alex Chitete, said the project was approved by parliament and […]