Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested former Malawi Congress Party (MCP) member of Parliament for Kasungu West Alex Major after he challenged President Lazarus Chakwera to make some changes in how he is governing the country including firing some officials at State House and Secretary to President and Cabinet. Major has confirmed that he was […]
Some senior Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials under the Second Liberation of Malawi Nation movement have written President Lazarous Chakwera accussing him of only employing his relatives and Assemblies of God Church members at State House and have also demanded that he fires Secretary to President and Cabinet (SPC) Zangazanga Chikhosi for frustrating the Tonse […]
Members of the Malawi Congress Party Diaspora Network (MCPDN) has donated assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worthy K2 million to Mwanza District Hospital. The items included facemasks, face shields, disposable overalls and hand gloves. The donation was presented on behalf of the diaspora on Tuesday by MCP campaign director and presidential advisor Moses Kunkuyu who […]
The High Court judge Sylvester Kalembera on Thursday nullified Parliamentary elections of Nsanje North, Chikwawa East and Nsanje Central constituencies after three Malawi Congress Party (MCP) contestants disputed the results of the May 21, 2019 Parliamentary polls. Candidates for MCP in the three constituencies took Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to court for declaring incumbent Democratic Progressive […]
Former Energy minister and Lilongwe Msinja north member of parliament Bintony Kutsaira has dumped the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In a brief letter to the Speaker of Parliament, Kutsaira is not stating reasons for his decision to leave the party that once gave him the powerful position of secretary general. He says in the letter […]
The High Court in Blantyre has adjourned to Thursday a judgment in a case in which three aspiring parliamentary candidates are challenging the outcome of three parliamentary elections. Court officials said judges are working on shifts as part of Covid-19 preventive measures. Malawi Congress Party members in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts are challenging results of […]
The High Court in Blantyre is on Tuesday set to rule in a case in which three Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidates in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts are challenging results of the May 21 2019 parliamentary elections. Kafandikhale Mandevana of Nsanje Central, Enoch Chizuzu (Nsanje North) and Foster Thipiwa (Chikwawa East) challenged in court […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it will hold a central executive committee meeting to fill positions of the party’s first vice-presidency and director of research left vacant following the death of its title holders, two Cabinet ministers last week. MCP lost its vice president Mohammed Sidik Mia and Lingston Beleyankama who was director of research. […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) second vice president Harry Mkandawire travelled from his base in Mzuzu to Chikwawa to condole the family of the party’s first vice president Sidik Mia following his death. Mkandawire’s trip to Chikwawa came amid accusations that no top party official or government official attended the funeral and burial ceremony of the […]
Strategy meeting for the 2025 elections by Malawi Congress party (MCP) gurus in December 2020 at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe may have contributed to the Covid-19 attack on some cabinet members who lost two of their colleagues on Tuesday. Transport Minister Sidik Mia and Local Government Minister Lingson Berekanyama both succumbed to the disease in […]
The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) at the Capital Hill could soon host thousands of victims of the one-party atrocities and injustices who are planning a vigil to demonstrate anger and displeasure over the government’s failure to settle their compensations. The victims – who are calling themselves Returnees and Detainees – told journalists […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Campaign Director, Moses Kunkuyu has said politicians have, for a long time, divided the youth in the country due to their greed. He said time has now come for the torch bearers to embrace all regardless of their political affiliation. Speaking recently in Blantyre when he visited vendors at Lunzu Market, […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is aware of challenges the youth in the country are facing and sympathises with them hence the need to address such challenges in order to create a Malawi that was good for all, his spokesperson Brian Banda has said Banda, State House Press Secretary, made the remarks Monday during a Weekly Brief […]
Dozens of ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP) youth on Saturday held protest marches against the party’s secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka and other two influential figures whom they accuse of nepotism, cronyism, favouritism and tribalism. The youths are accusing Mkaka, director of youth Richard Chimwendo Banda and State Residences of influencing the recruitment of their relatives […]
Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has told members of parliament to abandon their personal interests and always push for the interests of people they serve in their constituencies. Nyirenda said this on Monday when he swore in newly elected Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members of parliament Leonard Mwalwanda for Karonga north and Mphatso Boti for Lilongwe […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) powerful secretary general and Foreign Affairs minister Eisenhower Mkaka has said there are people who are going around Indian shops collecting money in his name, saying they are conmen. It is reported many Indians have been reaching out to Mkaka to check if he has received a parcel of cash for […]
Firebrand Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator and deputy minister Abida Sidik Mia has urged people in Mangochi West to vote for Simeon Harrison, an MCP member who is contesting as an independent candidate, in the forthcoming by-election. The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) will on December 15 conduct by-elections in Phalombe North, Mangochi North West and Mangochi […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is filling its national executive committee vacant positions in a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the 2025 general election. Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) official, Henry Mumba, is now director of Economic Affairs replacing the late Dr Cornelius Mwalwanda. Dowa north east legislator, Sam Dalitso Kawale has been promoted […]