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 […]
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. […]
With a few more months to go before the year winds up, Paladin Energy Limited says the year has been a milestone for its Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga in terms of production. The firm says in its 2012 Annual Report which includes audited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2012 together with […]
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 […]
Representatives of the Karonga Business Community on Thursday met Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali and four other ministers at Capital Hill in Lilongwe to press for the change of status of Karonga to Municipality saying the district’s economic boom should not be ignored. The delegation led by Chairperson Wavisanga Silungwe also vented their displeasure at […]
Paladin (Africa) Limited has come out blazing on suggestions to renegotiate its deal with the Malawi government warning that such tampering will be breach of contract and would have economic consequences on the country. Paladin General Manager for International Affairs Greg Walker issued the warning in an emailed response to Malawi’s two leading dailies The Nation […]
Member of Parliament for Dedza Central East (MCP) Mc Steyen Mkomba has asked government to investigate some of the proceeds from Kayerekera uranium mine deposited to an offshore account . Paladin Energy mines uranium at Kayerekera in Karonga district, the north of Malawi. Reserve Bank of Malawi asked the uranium miner to be a co-signatory to the offshore […]
Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga has lost its most senior Malawian staff, Human Resources Superintendent Dickens Chaula following allegations that he refused to report for duties soon after his father’s burial when he was ordered by miner Paladin to bring the death certificate, Nyasa Times has learnt. Chaula, who resigned on 28th January 2012 after refusing to […]
Uranium miner Paladin Energy has comprehensively responded to issues raised by Reserve Bank od Malawi Governor, Dr Perks Ligoya, saying contrary to the cricisim the Kayerekera uranium project in Karonga is bringing more benefits to Malawi exceeding K825 billion (about US$500 million.) Ligoya criticised Paladin saying Malawi rushed through the process of the Kayelekera uranium […]
Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Governor Dr Perks Ligoya has conceded that the country “made mistakes” in the way it handled the mining licence to Australian-based uranium- miner Paladin to develop the Kayelekera project. The central bank boss said government has realised some of the mistakes and would demand to “renegotiate” the deal. The mining […]
Malawi’s Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has complained that the media in the country is struggling to access information on mining because the players involved are reluctant to release it. CHRR’s Communications Officer Luke Tembo said the challenge is affecting the media’s efforts to relay relevant information that can help uplift the mining […]
Paladin general manager at Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga, Jimmie Wilde, will be abdicating from office this month end, a development which has excited workers at mine who have accused him of being a hardcore racist. Sources said Paladin board was not happy with his management style whereby he did not accommodate dissenting views especially […]
Uranium miner Paladin Energy says Kayelekera mine in Malawi has suffered a one week delay because of reinforcement work taking one week to complete after which plant operation will commence. Plant commissioning of the Kayelekera upgrades commenced 29 August as planned with a four day programme to get the plant online. “With the drying and packaging […]
Paladin Africa, the company that is running Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga district has reportedly started buying food stuffs from Tukuyu in Tanzania depriving hardworking locals of income. The development has since irked local suppliers, who blame the procurement shift to the departure of the Australian born Chris Mattinson, who used to buy from locals […]
A community task team from Malawi’s northern region district of Karonga has petitioned government for access to information that will enable them to effectively monitor mining activities in the area for compliance with fundamental human rights and labour standards. They petitioned the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, the Department of Environmental Affairs, the […]