Malawi is preparing to resume uranium exports for the first time in years, after the country’s Mining Minister met with the operator of the Kayelekera Uranium Mine to discuss the planned restart of operations. Minister of Mining Thoko Tembo held talks with the Country Director and Board of Lotus Resources Limited, during which the Australian […]
Government has given consent to Paladin to sell off all its 85 per cent shares in Kayelekera uranium mine in Karonga. Peter Chilowomanga, deputy director of mines in the ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources has confirmed that his ministry and the ministry of Finance and Economic Planning have given a go ahead to […]
Eight Tanzanian nationals convicted early this month to a charge of criminal trespass of spying on Kayerekera Uranium Mine have been handed suspended sentences. On Wednesday Mzuzu Chief Resident Magistrate Texious Masoamphambe sentenced the convicts to one-month imprisonment on criminal trespass and three months imprisonment for conducting reconnaissance. But Masoamphambe suspended the sentences “for six […]
A magistrate court in the northern city of Mzuzu has convicted eight Tanzanian national in the infamous Kayelekera uranium mine spies case who were facing criminal trespassing charges. Eight Tanzanians were arrested in December for allegedly going to Kayelekera Uranium mine without government consent. They were charged with criminal trespassing charge and other related charges. […]
Two of the eight suspects in the infamous Kayelekera uranium mine alleged spies case have pleaded guilty to the criminal trespassing charges and the court has set March 8 for ruling and proceeding of the case. Karonga Chief resident Magistrate Texious Masoamphambe said this after a senior police investigations officer finished giving his evidence on […]
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Bright Msaka Wednesday told parliament that Kayerekera uranium mine which stopped its operations in 2015, will resume its operations in a month’s time. Msaka was responding to a supplementary question by Chitipa South Parliamentarian Werani Chilenga who wanted to know the status of Kayerekera uranium mine situated in […]
The case involved the eight Tanzanian nationals on criminal trespass has changed its tune as it has been revealed that the group were led to Kayerekera Uranium Mine in Karonga by a security personnel from the Malawi Police Services after he pocked K20,000 . Police arrested the eight on December 20 last year around Kayuni […]
Tanzania government says it is pursuing diplomatic procedures to secure the release of eight Tanzanians languishing in remand custody in Malawi, where they are facing criminal trespass charges. The arrested Tanzanians are Ashura Yasiri (63), Wala-sa Mwasangu (30), Binto Ma-terinus (32), Christian Msoli (38), Martin Jodomusole (25), Layinali Kumba (47), Maliyu Mkobe (37) and Gilbert […]
Two senior immigration officials were in the country on Friday to inquire on eight arrested country men suspected to have been spying on Kayelekera Uranium mine in Karonga. Songwe border incharge Yusuf Shaibu said the Tanzanian deputy immigration officer Daniel Magwaza and his assistant John Njirakiza held discussions with Malawi security agents from Karonga at […]
Some concerned parties in Karonga say they don’t want to see Chinese Uranium Miner, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), to start operations at the Kayerekela Uranium Mine without a clear Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Kayerekela Mine has reportedly been sold CNNC by former miner, Paladin Africa Limited (PAL), whose license technically expired in 2014 after […]
Paladin Energy Limited has downplayed a Nyasa Times report that the floods terror in Karonga have resulted in the flooding of Kayerekela Uranium Mine tailing dams, a development that has sent shivers of apprehension among water users in the district. Nyasa Times correspondent in Karonga reported last week that the uranium stakeout dams at Kayelekera […]
The continuing heavy rains in Karonga have resulted in the flooding of Paladin’s Kayerekela Uranium Mine tailing dams, a development that has sent shivers of apprehension among water users in the district. The dams empty into the Sere River which feeds into the Rukuru River and the Lake Malawi. Ironically, the people of Karonga currently […]
Senior members of staff at the uranium mine, Kayelekera in Karonga were Tuesday morning forced to walk to work after drivers refused to pick them up over vehicle management disagreement. Some of the drivers said in an interview that management had brought in strict and unbearable measures in a bid to stop illegal siphoning of […]
Uranium miner Paladin has hit back at French nuclear physicist Bruno Chareyron who after visiting the Kayerekera Mine in the northern district of Karonga warned that people living and working around the site risk contracting radioactive related diseases. Paladin’s General Manager for Malawi, Greg Walker told Nyasa Times in a statemen that there is no […]
Bruno Chareyron, a French nuclear physicist, has warned that people working and living around the Kayerekela Uranium Mine in Karonga are at high risk of contracting radioactive related diseases within the shortest period. Chareyron said Wednesday at the Karonga district chamber that the radiation emissions at the mine, owned by Australia’s Paladin Africa Limited (PAL), were abnormal. […]
Paladin has given a clear explanation on an article entitled “Australian miners maiming Malawians, exploiting old law,” written by Collins Mtika, dealing in particular with two former workers at the Kayelekera Mine, Abraham Siliwonde and Francis Mkonda. The company’s boss in Malawi, Greg Walker said both these cases have been aired publicly in the past and the company […]
Uranium miner Paladin Energy has reported a uranium oxide (U3O8) spillage near its Kayelekera mine, in Malawi’s northern border district Karonga. The company said a truck carrying a container of uranium oxide from its Kayelekera mine in Malawi overturned while negotiating a curve in the road. The container fell loose and was punctured by a […]
Government Spokesperson, Brown Mpinganjira says Paladin Africa Limited which was given a license to mine Uranium at Kayerekera in Karonga was not in the wrong to halt production at the plant. Mpinganjira made the remarks Saturday in Blantyre following an announcement from Paladin Africa to temporarily close the mine, a move likely to negatively affect […]