The annual Poppy Appeal has long symbolized remembrance. This year’s launch also highlighted the growing challenge of supporting Malawi’s aging military veterans as public finances come under mounting pressure. Launching the 2026 Poppy Appeal Week in Lilongwe on behalf of President Peter Mutharika, Chief Secretary to the Government Justin Saidi announced that the president had […]
Chief Secretary Justin Saidi dismisses critics as pushing ‘propaganda’, while an academic and a rights chief say the public is entitled to know more The government will not disclose details of President Peter Mutharika’s private trips abroad, Chief Secretary Justin Saidi has said, dismissing critics’ questions as propaganda. Saidi said: “Private is private. It is […]
Malawi’s government has denied reports that President Peter Mutharika has travelled to India for medical treatment, saying he remains in South Africa on a private visit. Chief Secretary Justin Saidi dismissed the claims, which have circulated on social media, as false. He urged Malawians to rely on verified sources rather than spread unconfirmed information. Mutharika, […]
Vice-President Jane Ansah has finally broken her silence on what appears to be a serious breakdown in the relationship between the country’s second-highest office and the administration she serves, revealing that she was excluded from two Cabinet meetings and stripped of her disaster-management responsibilities. But the most curious part of her explanation is that, while […]
Civil servants have been ordered to pack away their suitcases and cancel their posh hotel bookings as bosses launch a brutal crackdown on cozy government junkets. Top brass at the Office of the President and Cabinet have put an IMMEDIATE stop to all taxpayer-funded workshops, seminars, and lavish away-days outside official work stations. The extraordinary […]
Chief Secretary to Government Justin Saidi has remained tight-lipped over allegations that he is behind the blocking of Vice-President Jane Ansah from attending Cabinet meetings, instead opting to stick to scripted official remarks when he addressed the public on Tuesday. Rather than responding to the mounting claims – which have followed VP Ansah’s own public […]
Malawi’s First Vice-President, Dr Jane Mayemu Ansah, has broken her silence to reveal the extraordinary extent to which she claims to have been sidelined, marginalised and ostracised within government — but insisted she has no plans to run crying to the President who handpicked her for the role. Speaking in an interview at her office […]
Malawi’s Vice-President, Jane Ansah, has accused the country’s most senior civil servant of deliberately excluding her from Cabinet business, in an extraordinary public intervention that lays bare tensions at the top of government. Speaking at her office in an interview on Monday, Dr Ansah said Dr Justin Saidi, the Chief Secretary, had withheld information relevant […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Dr Justin Adack Saidi says Malawi needs K488.5 billion, about US$281.7 million, to respond to El Niño conditions projected for the 2026/27 season. Saidi disclosed this during an El Niño Preparedness engagement meeting in Lilongwe, where he appealed to the private sector to support the initiative. He said government alone […]
When Willy Kambwandira speaks about public sector reform, he does so with the steady insistence of someone who has watched Malawi’s bureaucracy bend under political weight for far too long. So when news emerged that government had promoted 310 senior civil servants since October — a sweeping reorganisation of directors and deputy directors across ministries […]
A legal challenge brought by the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and three of its MPs against two senior government officials, in a dispute over the Malawi Electoral Commission’s (MEC) headquarters, has been listed to begin on August 17. Contempt charges have been filed against Chief Secretary to Government Justin Saidi and Minister of Lands and […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and three of its MPs have launched an explosive legal battle against two senior government figures, accusing them of brazenly defying a court order in a bitter row over the Malawi Electoral Commission’s (MEC) headquarters. Contempt charges have been filed against Chief Secretary to Government Justin Saidi and Minister of […]
Government officials were left scrambling for answers on Monday after admitting they do not know why First Vice‑President Jane Ansah failed to attend a crucial Cabinet meeting in Lilongwe — despite reports she was very much in the capital while Second Vice‑President Enoch Chihana chaired proceedings. The revelation came from Chief Secretary to the Government […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has paid tribute to Mai Monica Chimayi Mkandawire, mother of Rosemary Mkandawire, the former chief executive of Toyota Malawi and Power Market Limited, following her death this week. Addressing mourners on Wednesday in Lilongwe’s Area 49, Chief Secretary to the Government Dr Justin Saidi said the President had been “deeply saddened” […]
Government FURIOUS as it slams ‘malicious’ claims tycoon linked to First Lady’s charity scandal was handed secret diplomatic post and mining licences Malawi’s government has gone on the attack, blasting explosive reports that controversial South African businessman Zunaid Moti was secretly handed a diplomatic role and special treatment — branding the claims a pack of […]
Malawi government through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has announced that schools will not re-open in the country on July 13, 2020 as eelier planned and communicated. According to the Ministry’s Principal Secretary Justin Saidi, government will have to come up with a new date. He said this through a statement released on […]
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says it has now paid outstanding salaries for the 7,167 teachers who were removed from the payroll in November last year, following their failure to submit details of their national IDs as was requested by government. Principal Secretary in the ministry, Justin Saidi told journalists in Lilongwe on Wednesday […]
Officials from the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Programme (MESIP) in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, who went to Zambia on a tour of duty, have returned home with news that they have benefitted immensely. A delegation of 27 comprising education managers, primary education advisors, headteachers and teachers was in the neighboring country to […]