Opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera said Wednesday that he was “leading ” in the presidential election count and that his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) had results from its monitors in the polling stations but but the Malawi Electoral Commission(MEC) called for calm and patience from citizens as results from Tuesday’s tripartite elections are being awaited. Results […]
Pollster Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has warned that those contemplating on engaging post elections violence should desist from doing so saying security detail from both the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and Malawi Police Service (MPS) will be untiringly alert. MEC chairperson, Dr Jane Ansah, said during a media update at 3:00 am on Wednesday that […]
Former leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera nearly failed to vote in the Tuesday’’s Tripartite Elections in Lilongwe north-west constituency after he had realized that he did not have a voter registration card when he was already on a queue. Chakwera looked confused as he searched from all his jacket and trousers pockets before returning to […]
Presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera of the liberation movement-turned-political party – Malawi Congress Party (MCP) – that ruled the country for decades in one-paryy dictatorship , says he is not moved with rigging tantrums that proliferated prior to the Tuesday polls, saying he was certain of second time luck in Tuesday’s presidential race. The former evangelist told […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday held a final campaign rally at Kamuzu Institute for Youth and sports in the Capital City of Malawi, Lilongwe with promise to transform the country if elected as President during the Tuesday’s Tripartite Elections. Chakwera was accompanied by former president and People’s Party (PP) leader […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is also presidential candidate for UTM party, has pocked fun at the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and People Party (PP) alliance, saying two parties-one which lost in 1994 elections and the other one which lost in 2014 have joined forces to lose again on May 21. Chilima said this on Saturday […]
Over 50 panga wielding Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) youth cadets on Friday, yet again, unleashed their terror in Chikwawa’s Nkombedzi Constituency where they stormed Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) running mate Sidik Mia’s residence, wounding his guard and wrecking some of his vehicles. The development comes a day after another clash between DPP and MCP was […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate in next week’s watershed elections, Lazarus Chakwera, has promised to carry out vigorous reforms at Malawi Communication Regulatory Authorities (Macra) and Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), the country’s quasi-monopoly power supply utility where the rot stinks in organised fraud, abuse of billions of kwacha through misprocurements, fraud, corruption […]
Political violence has reared its ugly face in the Lower Shire in the run up to the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters clashing with the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaving several people injured and property destroyed. In Nsanje on Thursday the MCP youths led by Bilal Karim and Smart […]
A battalion of youths believed to be Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets on Wednesday sprung on some Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters leaving two wounded ahead of next week’s Tripartite Elections. The DPP cadets are said to have been lurking in waiting for MCP supporters while armed with stones and sticks, an eye witness, Ishmael […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidate for Mangochi Monkey-Bay Constituency, Gerald Kazembe has flexed his political muscle, sending shock waves to his opponents that he is heading for victory. Clad in red t-shirts emblazoned by his face and some in the face of MCP presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera and his running mate Sidik Mia, over […]
President Peter Mutharika says he is set for victory in next week’s Tripartie Elections and get fresh mandate to govern for another five years. Speaking on Tuesday during a whistle-stop campaign tour at Salima Boma, Katelera and Ngodzi Trading Centres in Salima, Mutharika said he was well and he was certain that Malawians will vote […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) shadow Member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency, Abida Sidik Mia, who is also wife to MCP presidential running mate, Sidik Mia, is confident that the party presidential hopeful Lazrus Chakwera and herself will claim victory in the presidential and parliamentary race respectively come Tuesday next week. Abida Sidik Mia made […]
It appears the two main rival parties to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in this election, the Malawi Congress party (MCP) and UTM, have ignored the Democrtaic Progress Party (DPP) and have instead turned against each other. There has been an increased rivalry and bitter feuding between the two parties with the main battlegrounds being […]
Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the father and founder of the Malawi nation, was born on May 14 (forget what year), so we are told. On this day, thanks to the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s ‘visionary and dynamic’ thoughts more than a decade years ago, we memorialize a man who always credited himself for booting out […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera was on Tuesday defiant in the face of a court injuncting stopping him from going to the grave of late Aaron Gadama, a former minister , as he went ahead to lay wreaths on his tomb in Kasungu. The family of late Gadama, through law firm Taulo […]
The family of late Aaron Gadama, a former minister who was brutally killed by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) regime has rushed to court to obtain an injunction stopping MCP presidential candidate Lazrarus Chakwera from going to his grave this Tuesday to lay wreaths. Chakwera has planned to visit the grave of Gadama in Kasungu on […]
Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda clearly loved Malawi as a country. He took advantage of generous development aid projects of the 1960s to mid 1970s that was aimed at helping develop former European colonies to fulfill his vision for the country. Most of such projects are still visible today. He built the country’s only international […]