Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali and businessman Harry Mkandawire have pledged the construction a MK35 million jail block at Mzuzu Prison as one way of easing congestion at the penitentiary. Kachali also donated a Plasma TV and a Cow to the inmates. President Mrs Joyce Banda disclosed this during a service of worship held at […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali said on Monday the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the post of African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson demonstrated SADC’s unity. Kachali, asked for Malawi’s reaction as one of the countries that backed the South African Home Affairs Minister, said Dlamini-Zuma’s victory demonstrated that there was solidarity within SADC. He said SADC […]
Malawi has always been a strong supporter of women empowerment, Vice President Khumbo Kachali said in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa Saturday. Kachali, who is representing President Joyce Banda at the AU Heads of State and Government Summit, was speaking at a fund-raising luncheon the African Women’s Decade hosted for AU delegates. Also present at […]
Britain says it will continue assisting Malawi with basic resources especially for the rural people including family planning. The British Under Secretary of State for International Development, Stephen Rothwell O’Brien, was speaking to the media after meeting the Malawi Vice President, Khumbo Kachali when the London Family Planning Summit closed. He said that the British are […]
One of Malawi’s oldest and most popular heath centers around Rumphi District, Bwengu, has been operating without water since 2009 despite serving a community of about 40 000 people, Nyasa Times can reveal. Nyasa Times visit to the health Centre this week exposed a sorry state of affairs for the community that depend on this […]
Malawi Government says it wants to use family planning as a strategy to achieve its development goals and has declared its commitment to raise Malawi’s Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) to 60% by 2020 with a targeted increase in young people aged 15 to 24 years. The remarks were made Wednesday by the Vice President Khumbo Kachali who is also […]
Chiefs from Mzimba in the northern region on Sunday paid a courtesy call on President Joyce Banda at the New State House in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, to thank her for appointing a person from their region as the country’s vice president. Led by Inkosi ya Makosi Mmbelwa 1V, the chiefs gave President Banda eight cows, […]
St Pauls parish of the influential Roman Church in Mzimba on Satuarday celebrated 50th anniversary from 1961 to 2012. The Eucharistic celebration was presided over by Bishop Joseph Zuza of Mzuzu Diocese who is also the Chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi. State vice president Khumbo Kachali, Inkosi ya Makhosi M’mbelwa IV, lawmakers Akimu Mwanza, Abbie Shawa and Dr […]
President Joyce Banda has encouraged her governing People’s Party (PP) officials to practice politics of inclusivity, saying members of other parties wishing to join the governing party should do so without any hindrance. “But no PP office-bearer should lose their position to newcomers. While we will accept new members, those members should not come to […]
A scheduled visit by Vice President Khumbo Kachali to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) offices in Blantyre on (Wednesday) has raised eyebrows as insiders said government wants to implement the controversial ‘spy machine’ project. Kachali, who also doubles as minister of Health, is expected to visit Macra Offices in Blantyre and the visit has left […]
Farmers in the country have been asked to form associations if they are to make meaningful profit in their business. Vice President Khumbo Kachali made the call on Thursday when he opened the 8th Annual Congress for the Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM) at Bingu International Conference centre in Lilongwe. The Conference’s theme is: “Agricultural […]
Thyolo Thava MP Lifred Nawena (independent) on Thursday said in Parliament that he was disappointed with the finding of the Special Cabinet Committee instituted to probe Minister of Finance Dr. Ken Lipenga in the K30 billion Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) loan scam which cleared Lipenga. The committee appointed by President Joyce Banda was chaired by Vice-President Khumbo Kachali and its […]
Minister of Finance Ken Lipenga has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the cabinet committee inquiry on the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) K30 billion loan scam, State Vice President Khumbo Kachali told Parliament on Thursday. Kachali, who chaired the cabinet committee which was probing the issue, presented the report Parliament and said they found Lipenga innocent, arguing […]
Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali has warned that government is going to ‘squeeze’ Swahilis and Burundians saying they are exploiting smallholder farmers and plundering the country’s resources. However, he did not explain what measures government will employ in ‘squeezing’ these foreigners. “This government will not tolerate foreigners getting rich at the expense of Malawians [. […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda returned home Thursday afternoon from her 12-day official tour of duty in the United Kingdom and United States of America respectively to a rapturous welcome and indicated that she will not attend next month’s Africa Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addressing a media conference upon arrival at the Chileka International […]
Mangochi central MP (UDF) , Dr Clement Chiwaya has called on Malawians not to re-elect parliamentarians who were busy bootlicking during the dictatorship of late Bingu wa Mutharika leading to the economic down turn Chiwaya told the House that all the economic miseries that Malawians are facing today are the result of a passive Parliament […]
Malawi Government has announced that it will not go ahead to host the African Union Summit which was scheduled to take place next month in Lilongwe. The development comes barely 24 hours after the Sudanese Government wrote the African Union Commission to move the summit from Malawi to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Malawi’s Vice President […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali who also doubles as Health Minister on Tuesday persuaded medical doctors, nurses and clinical officers to resume offering their services during the hours when they are entitled to locum , saying government will seriously consider their plea to increase the allowances. The workers want the allowance to rise by about 600 […]