Former president Joyce Banda has accussed government of bloating Covid-19 figures and abusing resources of the pandemic in the country. Speaking at a Tonse Alliance mega rally in Blantyre on Monday, Banda claimed that the government is deliberately increasing Covid-19 cases in order to receive donor funding. “They have imported a dead body from South […]
Former president Joyce Banda has blamed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for frustrating opposition political party campaign rallies by arranging parallel meetings to fuel political violence among party supporters in order to destabilize the fresh presidential elections. Banda, who is also the leader for Peoples Party(PP) which is in Tonse alliance alongside other eight […]
Commander-in-Chief of Citizens for Transformation, Timothy Mtambo has praised former president, Joyce Banda, for her role she played in ensuring justice and accountability in the biggest financial scandal in Malawi’s history called Cashgate which helped push her out of power in the 2014 election. Speaking at a Tonse Alliance rally at Naisi in Zomba where […]
Former president Joyce Banda has urged political leaders not to divide people in the country in the name of religion during the political campaign for the fresh presidential elections. Addressing a rally at Naisi in Zomba under the banner of opposition Tonse Allaince, Banda, who leads Peoples Party (PP), credited former president Bakili Muluzi for […]
Former president Joyce Banda is Tuesday night appearing on Malawi’s growing television station, Rainbow TV, to speak about elections and governance issues in the country. Banda, Africa’s second woman president, is expected to speak on what happened during the 2014 chaotic elections which she lost. She had accused DPP, which was in opposition then, of […]
Former president Joyce Banda has said she wants the younger generation to take up leadership, taunting President Peter Mutharika that at 80-years he should be retiring like her husband former Chief Justice Richard Banda – his age mate. She was speaking on Sunday at a rally in Mzuzu before Tonse Alliance presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera, […]
Malawi former president Joyce Banda and 11 other African leaders have called on the African Union, United Nations and World Bank to help condense the social and economic effects of coronavirus in Africa. Banda confirmed she is party to a statement signed by among others former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo ; ex-Botswana President Festus […]
Former president Joyce Banda has launched a devastating critique of the government’s handling of the coronavirus global pandemic, saying lacks transparency and fails to mobilise the public there by missing from the list of countries that will benefit from a US$100 million support. Banda said Malawi cannot access support from the global community if it […]
Former president Joyce Banda and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera on Thursday paid tribute to Sidik Mia, MCP’s deputy president for displaying statesmanship of such levels which this country has never witnessed for decades when he sacrificed from being Chakwera’s runningmate paving way for alliance as Malawi comes first. The remarks were made […]
President of the People’s Joyce Banda has publicly condemned her party secretary general Ibrahim Matola for insulting and abusive language against the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah. In a charged and emotional manner, Friday morning during a National Elections Consultative Forum meeting in Blantyre, Matola told Ansah to leave MEC with her […]
Organisers of Martyrs’ Day commemorations in Nkhata Bay were on Tuesday March 3 left bitterly disappointed when their guest of honour Malawi “vice president” from the May nullified presidential election Everton Chimulirenji, who was recently appointed Minister for Disaster Management Affairs and Public Events, failed to attend. It was more than a little embarrassing for […]
President Peter Mutharika was conspicuously missing at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as he battles for his political career following nullification of Constitutional Court nullification of his re-election, a matter which he is appealing at Supreme Court. The Constitutional Court ruling for a fresh election in July has shocked the 79-year-old […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader and presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera has urged Malawians to respect and elections case ruling due anytime from now. The Constitutional Court is expected to rule on the election challenge sometime between January 27 and February 3, its spokesperson Agnes Patemba has confirmed. At a news conference lasting for nine minutes, […]
Former Malawi president Joyce Banda is among seven African heads of state in Lome, capital of Togo, participating in aa summit against fake drugs which is under the aegis of the Brazzaville Foundation an independent NGO based in London which Banda belongs. The two-day conference runs through Saturday and is expected to lead to a […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) has come out strongly censuring Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General Reyneck Matemba over remarks that it is the party’s leader Joyce Banda who appointed him to the office. Matemba made the assertion when he was addressing the media on allegations that. Some people were attempting to bribe the five-judge panel […]
The spokesman for erstwhile governing People’s Party (PP) of former president Joyce Banda has denied the party is falling apart after politician Mathews Banda has dumped it as the party has said he was an ordinary members and not holding any senior position. In quitting PP, Mathews Banda told Nyasa Times that he was an […]
Former president Joyce Banda , who governed Malawi between 2012 and 2014, has informed the African Worman Leaders Network (AWNL), about the allegations of rape by police officers during ongoing post-election violence asking the body to ramp up pressure that allegations should be thoroughly investigated and perpetrators punished. The NGO Gender Coordination Network (NGO-GCN) documented […]
Former president Joyce Banda has said there is no need for President Peter Mutharika to resign when the dispute over the May presidential elections is at the High Court in Lilongwe, sitting as a Constitutional Court. Banda said this in an interview monitored by Nyasa Times on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The Constitutional Court to […]