Malawi’s Vice-President Khumbo Kachali has said he was still a People’s Party (PP) member amid reports that he is politically flirting with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) which has said the VP is welcome to join it. Kachale who arranged interviews with Malawi’s two dailies, said he was meanwhile preoccupied in campaigning for his parliamentary seat […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali, still bitter after being ditched by President Joyce Banda, has presented a memorandum of understanding ( MOU) to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to guarantee the votes he will bring to the table from the northern region, party insiders revealed to Nyasa Times. Since President Banda abandoned Kachali and announced Sosten […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarous Chakwera has promised Malawians of quality and standard education systems from pre-school to university. Speaking to thousands of people at Mayani ground in Dedza on Sunday when he held a political campaign rally, Chakwera said investing in children and education is key to the country’s economic growth. “We in the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Presidential running mate Richard Msowoya has made a strong appeal to people in northern districts of Karonga and Chitipa to vote for his party in the forthcoming elections. Speaking during campaign rallies in the two districts, Msowoya said MCP is aware that most people in the northern religion have a bad picture of […]
Jessies Kabwira saying less than you know is great. I open today with an editorial of one of the newspapers I admire in Africa, the Post of Zambia. This week as I pondered on the comical approach to politics by the Malawi Congress Party, I found an inspiration from their editorial. Part of it reads: […]
Leader of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera has blamed the former ruling parties from 1994 for high levels of poverty which Malawians have been suffering for the past 50 years, saying his party is ready to transform the country with what he called a ‘rescue plan’.. Speaking during a mass rally […]
Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) Mzuzu city member of parliament aspirant’s bid to campaign in a restricted Mzuzu prison was on Friday foiled after the National Institute for Civic Education(NICE) rejected to partner him. NICE’S Mzuzu city district Civic Education officer Wallace Kudzala alongside his advisor Anne Sichinga had a programme to conduct voter civic education […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokeswoman Jessie Kabwira has said the party needs not to make fresh apology for atrocities it committed during its 30-year dictatorial rule, saying dictator Kamuzu Banda who was ousted by Bakili Muluzi in 1994 election already apologised. MCP regime was blamed for killings, detention without trial and hounding into exile thousands […]
Embattled State Vice President Khumbo Hastings Kachali saw the world crumbling before him when he was told an impromptu Malawi Congress Party (MCP) national executive committee meeting last Friday had turned down his political overtures to join the oldest political party in Malawi. President Joyce Banda, who is also PP’s presidential candidate in the May […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has unveiled its electoral promises, through their manifesto ahead of next month’s tripartite polls, promising seven key strategic priorities that will restore the integrity of Malawi economy. MCP president Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and his running-mate Richard Msowoya led the national executive committee to unveil the manisfesto and launch its […]
Opposition Malawi Congress party (MCP) parliamentary hopeful for Nkhata Bay Central constituency Dillah Nyimba said he would prod government to consider establishing a naval base at Sanje in Nkhata Bay as one way of enhancing protection of Lake Malawi. “There is lots of idle space at Sanje and the place has not major developments for […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will on April 6, 2014 unveil their electoral promises, through their manifestos, in Lilongwe. MCP president Reverend Dr. Lazarus Chakwera said the launch of the manifesto, which will go together with the campaign launch, will take place at Masintha ground in Lilongwe. According to Chakwera, the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwela has said Malawi will still need tobacco as a main cash crop although some people are saying the country should find a replacement. Speaking during a campaign rally he conducted at Kalambo group in Lilongwe on Sunday, Chakwela said once voted into power, MCP will make sure that […]
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The High Court in Blantyre has cleared Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Publicity Secretary Dr Jessie Kabwila to contest in the May 20 Tripartite Elections as Member of Parliamentary after winning a case against Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC)which disqualified the academician on allegations that she is a civil servant by virtue of being a University of Malawi […]
The ruling People’s Party (PP) presidential running-mate, Sosten Gwengwe has hit at his former party Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its retired president, John Tembo, for challenging his age and stature. Gwengwe, speaking during official launch of Malawian Airline in Dowa district, took a swipe at Tembo and MCP for branding him as a ‘kid […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarous Chakwera has said his party will be entitled “to rethink” the country’s fiscal year, once voted into power in May 20 elections to ensure ministry of agriculture gets “timely” funding. Chakwera said this when he signed a pledge card with Oxfam Malawi in which it committed to ensuring […]
In an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) National Executive member and aspiring legislator for Dedza East, Juliana Mdamvetsa Lunguzi, says if elected on May 20, she will turn around Dedza East into a self-sustaining area that should, in a couple of years, be exporting surpluses. Juliana, daughter to former late Inspector […]