Women’s Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC) this week has been training chiefs in Lilongwe on the importance of access to land for women. Speaking during the workshop, WOLREC Programme officer, Loma Mtema, said it is very important for women to have access to land. Loma said last year her organisations invited chiefs from Malawi for a […]
Minister of Gender Children and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati says her ministry will continue lobbying for support from various ministries to ensure that women and youth in the country have access to farming needs in order to maximize their production. Kaliati said this in Mulanje district when she presided over the official launch of Women […]
President Peter Mutharika on Thursday summoned leaders of the Thyolo-based People’s Land Organisation (PLO) Charles Mchacha and Bon Kalindo of the Citizens for the Protection of Mulanje (CPM) at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre to discuss the long-standing land wrangle between communities and tea estate owners in populous Thyolo and Mulanje districts where most of the […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Atupele Muluzi says he is very committed to bring transparency and accountability reforms in his ministry. This follows government’s agenda to diversify the country’s economy through Civil Service Reforms. The Lands minister said this on Tuesday during his familiarization tour to lands offices in Blantyre. Muluzi said his […]
A 60-year-old man has died in a fierce clash over land in Ntchisi, now Police are reportedly keeping in custody a 40-year-old man on murder. However, police in the district also says enquiries are in progress to establish full details of the incident. According to Sergeant Gladson M’bumpha, Ntchisi Police Public Relations Officer, the deceased […]
Lilongwe Urban Poor People Network(LUPPEN) over the weekend trained women who were drawn from various locations in the Capital Lilongwe. Luppen coordinator, Harry Mamba, said : “Women are the most victimized group of people in as far as land ownership is concern so the only hope that we have is the land law which has […]
The controversial Kasamba dam that was being constructed in Traditional Authority Njolomole in Ntcheu district has ended abruptly, leaving 15 families landless. The 15 families had their crops chopped and no any compensation was given to them. According to the Chairperson of the affected families, Mrs Falesi Chikuni, Ministry of Agriculture was the one constructing […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Paul Chibingu has called on the ministry officials to desist from fraud and corruption when dealing with issues of land and housing. He told the officers in Lilongwe during a meeting on Fraud and Corruption Prevention that corruption poses a threat to government’s efforts to provide equitable distribution of land […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) and the Malawi Police Service (MPS) have warned people against buying and encroaching prohibited land, saying illegal settlements and poorly built structures negatively impact on the council’s initial plans. The country’s security agency also condemned chiefs in major cities for selling pieces of lands to people behind the councils’ back […]
Efforts to provide land and housing management services to the public have over the years been affected by the effects of HIV and Aids in workplaces, Minster of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Bright Msaka revealed on Friday. Speaking during his Ministry’s HIV and Aids Prevention Awareness Open Day under the theme: “Preventing a Further Spread […]
Thyolo West parliamentarian Charles Mchacha has obtained a court injuction restraining comedian-turned-politician Bon Kalindo, who is also Mulanje South East parliamentarian, for visiting Thyolo district on claims that he is bringing confusion over commercial land. Mchacha confirmed in an interview that the court injunction has since been served to Kalindo. “We had to resort to […]
Thyolo West parliamentarian Charles Mchacha has strongly crticised comedian-turned-politician Bon Kalindo, who is also Mulanje South East parliamentarian, for bringing confusion in his district over commercial land. Nyasa Times has established that Kalindo has been mobilizing the people of tea growing district of Thyolo to stand up against commercial land owners and occupy the land which […]
Portuguese industrial conglomerate Mota-Engil has written the Malawian government of its intention to withdraw its investment of 160 million Euro tourist attraction project in Monkey Bay which could have seen the construction of a five star hotel and a golf course. According to Capital Hill sources who are privy to the issue, Mota Engil decided […]
Some disgruntled locals in southern districts of Thyolo and Mulanje have petitioned President Peter Mutharika and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe to intervene in the wrangle involving tea estate owners and locals in the two districts. The petition, which is recognising Mugabe as African Union (AU) Chairperson, has also been copied to 13 Ambassadors and […]
Malawian lawyer Chrispine Kam’mayani is on the run after putting his hands on a K10 million from a well known ICT expert Boston Sibande on a deal in which the lawyer is alleged to have pocketed the money for plot number 47/4/820. Nyasa Times undertsand that he had fraudulently altered legal property documents which he […]
“Preparedness is not only individual, but also structural, making the buildings strong enough to resist strong ground shaking” –Renato Solidum President Peter Mutharika, during his tour to areas devastated by this rainy season’s unprecedented rainstorms and floods, has said more than once that he does not know why the floods have been this vicious. Well, […]
Residents of Mwankenja Village Traditional Authority Kyungu in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga have been left homeless after some neighbouring villages set on fire 28 houses in the village due to land dispute. According to Karonga Police Spokesperson Enock Livasion, the police received communication on Monday night that people from villages of Mwenitete and […]
The Muslim mother body in Malawi the Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has distanced itself from accusations it says are made by the Malawi police officers linking the religious body and its members to a terrorist organization. General Secretary for MAM Sheikh Dr. Salmin Omar Idruss said in a statement issued Sunday that the association […]