President Joyce Banda has said she will not be stampeded into accepting demands by Members of Parliament (MPs) for the implementation of their 2008 request to have their fuel allowances pegged at 500 litres a month. The MPs also want all their arrears dating back to 2009 when the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime challenged […]
President Joyce Banda will from Monday re-launch crop inspection tours which used to be the country’s first head of state Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda’s trade mark in his 31-year reign. According to a statement issued by State House made available to Nyasa Times, President Banda will on Monday undertake the crop inspection and agriculture diversification project […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Professor Peter Mwanza have said there is insufficient maize in the country, a situation that is making life hard for people both in the rural and urban areas. President Banda told reporters at Sanjika Palace on Saturday that the country has no enough maize. “Let […]
Paramount Engineering Company has donated a truck to President Joyce Banda’s maize distribution initiative as one way of easing transportation problems of the maize that the Malawi leader distributes to the impoverished. Speaking at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre after receiving the truck, President Banda said she is very grateful for the timely donation as it […]
Traditional leaders in Malawi’s northern district of Nkhata-bay lost their cool on Friday and described President Joyce Banda’s relief food distribution exercise as a ruling party’s ploy to enrich themselves at the expense of poor people. Group Village headman Chandira from the area of Traditional Authority Timbiri in the district was reacting to what he […]
The state grain marketer, ADMARC, has started rationing maize with only 500 metric tonnes in its reserves as almost two million people in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, have run out their staple food maize, which they grind to prepare their meals. Most Admarc deports have run out of maize as […]
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, […]
Malawi’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has asked President Joyce Banda to subsidise maize price to ensure that every needy Malawian affords the commodity. DPP’s advice comes in the wake of the President’s relief flour and maize distribution exercise to the deprived masses which the party has observed is only benefiting few individuals primarily […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has ordered police and the Ministry of Agriculture to seal all borders to stop maize exports following reports that the commodity is being taken out of country through Karonga to neibhouring countries like Tanzania and Kenya. The calls comes after CCAP Synod of Livingstonia General Secretary Reverend Levi Nyondo during during […]
Consumer Association of Malawi (Cama) Executive Director, John Kapito has blamed President, Joyce Banda for influencing the increase of maize prices on the market through her continuous sentiments on hunger situation in the country. Private traders are currently selling maize at between K4, 000 and K4, 500, higher than government set price of K3, 000 […]
A survey purporting to show people’s views on President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s maize distribution programme across the country is fake and a campaign gimmick aimed at discrediting the President in her benevolent work, according to State House. The Nation newspaper was during the past week asking people to vote YES if they agree that President Banda […]
Malawi government is assuring people in the country that it will continue to distribute the country’s staple food maize to the vulnerable and needy who are hit by food shortages. According to the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee report of October 2012, there are about 2 million Malawians facing hunger in this country. Information and Civic […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda on Thursday vowed to continue distributing food to needy Malawians across the country and that no-one can stop her, apparently referring to critics who accuse her of “politicizing” the exercise. Speaking when she addressed a rally in Mulanje Pasani Constituency, President Banda said the hunger situation in this country is at […]
Director of Women and Parliamentarian for Malawi’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Patricia Kaliati has quashed reports that she was arrested Sunday evening following her outbursts against President Joyce Banda at a DPP’s rally held earlier in the day at Njamba Freedom Park in the commercial capital Blantyre. Report from social media networks had indicated […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda, under JB’s Initiative to Combat Hunger, on Friday distributed bags of maize to 600 vulnerable people from the area of Traditional Authority Nankumba in lakeshore district of Mangochi. The President made the donation at Chikoko Bay State Lodge Mini Stadium. “The levels of the food crisis in our country today calls […]
Police in the border district of Karonga on Sunday arrested a Tanzanian national for attempting to illegally export 1200 bags of maize to Tanzania without proper documents. The maize was loaded on two Tanzanian tracks registration numbers T696ASS/T669AUA and T799AUS/T236AUU. The suspect, 44-year-old man Patrick Pasolo Mwinuka was nabbed at Iponga road block after lying […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda rolled out the food distribution exercise Thursday afternoon in Sub-Traditional Authority Chanthunya’s area in Balaka district where she distributed 50 kg bags of maize to food insecure families. President Banda pledged during the function that her Government will ensure that hunger-stricken households and communities across the country are given relief food […]
The local Islamic charity, the Gift of the Givers Foundation, has donated 10,000 bags of maize flour to Malawi President Joyce Banda in response to an appeal she made recently to the founder of the organization Dr Intiaz Suleiman. “I want to thank Dr Suleiman most profoundly for his response to my appeal. I met […]