Malawi President Joyce Banda has distributed relief aid to about 200 families in northern region’s border district of Karonga following a hailstorm that left many homeless and in dire need of food supplie recently. Karonga is one of disaster prone districts in the country and is subjected to perennial floods, strong winds and dry spell in […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Australian uranium miner Paladin Energy would restructure the mining operations at Kayelekera in Karonga that would result in the retrenchment of 110 employees. The miner confirmed to Nyasa Times when asked about the job cuts. Paladin international affairs General Manager Greg Walker told Nyasa Times: “We have reviewed staff numbers and […]
Drama ensued Saturday in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga when scores of civilians raided a police road block and took over charge. The civilians are accusing police officers manning North Rukuru River road block of gross corruption, a development they claim has resulted in increased illegal exportation of maize to neighbouring Tanzania and Kenya. However, […]
Paladin Africa Limited- Malawi office- has sent on an indefinite suspension two of its employees for allegedly swindling funds meant for buying food staff in Karonga District, Nyasa Times has learnt. The two, Chipiliro Mwenelupembe and Helena Makwakwa, who were working as Food Buying Supervisor and Food Buying Clerk respectively, received their suspension letters last […]
The High Court of Malawi has stopped a Belgian, who came as a volunteer, from grabbing a community private school and a lodge at Chilumba in Karonga district after he started collecting money from the two projects without the knowledge of the local board of eight people and diverting it to a different bank account. […]
Residents of Mangulu Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kilupula in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga have written President Joyce Banda demanding her to provide them with security, food and other relief items following recent attacks by residents from a neighbouring village known as Chakwera. The residents from the two villages have long been […]
Members of clergy from different dominations under the Pastors Fraternal of Chilumba in Karonga on Wednesday observed a day of prayer and fasting where among other things they prayed for peaceful solution to the ongoing border row between Malawi and its Northern neighbor Tanzania over the owner ship of the lake Malawi. Karonga is Malawi’s […]
Over nine houses have been torched and several people injured in a fierce row that has erupted over chieftaincy of Traditional Authority Kilupula in Malawi’s northern lake shore district of Karonga. Eyewitnesses have told Nyasa Times that two families are failing to agree who should be installed as a TA between two brothers from different […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Nkhotakota Central constituency Edwin Banda on Tuesday took to the floor in the National Assembly the controversial deal government entered with uranium miner Paladin, on Karonga’s Kayerekera project. Two small local nongovernment organisations, Karonga Youth for Justice and Development (KYJD) and Karonga Business Community, had proposed holding a peaceful demonstration […]
The proposed demonstration at Paladin’s Kayelekera uranium mine in northern district of Karonga has been cancelled by the organisers. Two small local nongovernment organisations, Karonga Youth for Justice and Development (KYJD) and Karonga Business Community, had proposed holding a peaceful demonstration near Karonga from November 14 to 17, during which protestors would blockade the M26 […]
With two million Malawians already facing severe starvation due to poor crop harvests this year, paramount chief Kyungu of Karonga has urged Malawi government to rescue the situation in his district by curbing the smuggling of rice to neighboring Tanzania and Zambia. Karonga is one of the country’s largest producers of rice, thanks to its […]
While Karonga minority vocal groups and local businesses are unhappy at Paladin Energy’s corporate social responsibility undertakings, Nyasa Times investigations shows that local businesses do benefit significantly from supply contracts with Kayelekera Mine. According to the Development Agreement , the miner should provide opportunities to “legitimate established businesses in Malawi” to tender to supply materials, equipment and services to Kayelekera Mine which meets the specifications of the invitation to tender; is competitive in cost with international sources; meets the delivery requirements of the Project; meets the quality requirements of the Project; and is bona fide. Nyasa Timesinvestigations can reveal that Clause 5.1 (a) of the Development Agreement also obliges the Paladin to assist in establishing or expanding Malawian businesses that may be capable of providing goodsand services to the mine, but such businesses must be uncompetitive with another non-Malawian supplier. Most of the chemical […]
A top government official is being accused of soliciting bribes from uranium miner, Paladin Energy and has resorted in fermenting trouble by inciting the community to hold demonstrations near Kayelekera Mine in northern region border district of Karonga. Nyasa Times sources said a very top government official who is also top official in the ruling […]
Karonga Youth for Justice and Development, a non-governmental organization in Karonga, is calling on Malawi government to closely monitor all activities taking place at the Paladin’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine, arguing that since its inauguration seven years ago, the district and the country has not benefitted from it. The Kayelekera Uranium Mine, located in Karonga, northern […]
Police in Karonga district have arrested two men on allegations that they murdered a 57-year-old man after he forced one of the suspects to buy plates from him. Karonga Police Station spokesperson Enock Livasoni confirmed the development saying the two suspects are Wakisa Simkoko, 30 years of Mwenitete village, Traditional Authority Kilipula and Kawo Mwangwewo, […]
Influential Paramount Chief Kyungu of Karonga has accused Paladin Africa Limited, the company mining uranium at Kayelekera in Karonga of doing nothing to develop the lakeshore district as part of the company’s social responsibility. He said much as Paladin Africa continued to get uranium at Kayelekera, people of Karonga and Chitipa districts benefit nothing as the company is not carrying out its social responsibility roles to assist in developing the districts. […]
The Karonga Business Association (KABA) has asked government to enact the Competition Act as a matter of urgency to curb issues of monopoly thereby levelling the business environment. For instance, the Association said it was unfair to have Simama General Dealers being a sugar distributor, transporter, wholesaler, and retailer for the whole northern region. They […]
Paladin Energy Limited, the parent company of Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga District has so far coughed up to US$ 15,824,793 (MK4.8 billion) on social development projects for Karonga district significantly exceeding its obligation to spend $US 10 million (MK3 billion) as per the development agreement signed with the Malawi government. This is despite the fact […]