Senior Resident Magistrate, Viva Nyimba has warned ruling Peoples Party (PP) official, Joseph Chikwemba who on Thursday afternoon skipped court session over private business. Chikwemba, who dragged Malawi Voice Editor, Justice Mponda to court for alleged extortion, on Thursday failed to turn up for hearing on excuse that he was attending Electricity Supply Corporation of […]
Malawi’s Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) has applauded the country’s private media for standing their ground to champion media freedom and other fundamental human freedoms. In a statement released in commemoration of the World Human Rights Day which falls of December 10, the two human rights […]
The Student – Malawi’s first print magazine whose stories encompass student related issues for all learning institutions in the country – will now start publishing monthly considering the tremendous growth in its readership, the magazine’s management team has disclosed to Nyasa Times. “Our circulation has almost tripled to 15 000,” The Student Media Chief Executive Vasco Madhlopa said. He […]
Malawi’s ruling People’s Party (PP) deputy publicity secretary Ken Msonda on Monday disowned as personal and not reflecting the position of the party threats by its deputy secretary general Ireen Chikuni for government to stop advertising in the private media. Chikuni, speaking at a rally President Joyce Banda held in Ndirande Township, Blantyre on Sunday, […]
By now the whole State House communication machinery, if there is such a thing in the first place, must have seen that perhaps the idea of engaging an up market UK public relations firm to clean up the cashgate- battered image of government in the eyes of a foreign audience was a bad one, after all. […]
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) Chapter is disturbed with ruling People’s Party (PP) deputy secretary general Ireen Chikuni for suggesting to government to stop advertising in the private media because they are critical to President Joyce Banda. Chikuni speaking at a presidential function held in Ndirande Township, Blantyre on Sunday said government should […]
“The things that bother the Press about a President will ultimately bother the Country”. David Halberstam. Recently we have read in the national media of injunctions the President, Dr Joyce Banda’s legal representatives have taken against Blantyre Newspapers Limited. One of these injunctions, we read is to stop the Daily Times or its sister papers […]
President Joyce Banda has been accused of threatening the thriving democracy and press freedom according to an editorial comment in the Malawi News following the lawsuit which Joyce Banda Foundation has filed against Blantyre Newspapers Limited (Times Group), the publishers of Daily Times, Malawi News, and Sunday Times newspapers. The newspaper publishing house has been […]
Deputy Minister of local government, Godfrey Kamanya and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Ulemu Chilapondwa on Monday intimidated and harassed Lilongwe-based Nyasa Times journalist, Chancy Namazunda. The two deputy ministers harassed the reporter at the funeral ceremony of Senior Chief Chadza’s wife, who is from Lilongwe Msozi constituency of Kamanya. Namazunda who was asked by the bereaved family to take […]
President Joyce Banda has criticised some Malawian media outlets for “deliberate twist of information” to influence public opinion against her administration regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the country’s current economic situation. Local media widely quoted IMF saying Malawi is in ‘a crisis situation’ following the withholding of aid by the major donors. IMF Mission […]
The corruption and looting of public resources at Capital Hill in Lilongwe is now dominating headlines in the British and international media since the donors withheld budgetary support. On Monday, British daily broadsheet newspaper The Telegraph set the talking point as it reported that Malawi government has hired British Public Relations firm Bell Pottinger for […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court has granted bail to Justice Mponda, an editor of online publication Malawi Voice, who was arrested on Friday for allegedly extorting money from Peoples Party (PP) official, Joseph Chikwemba. Mponda, 26 and hails from Nkhonya village, T/A Chikumbu in Mulanje has been charged with “Extortion” contrary to Section 305 of the […]
It has only been broadcasting on the internet for three weeks, but the new online radio station opened in UK seems to have been welcomed by many Malawians in diaspora, especially those in UK. The station named Radio 247 MALAWI joins the long list of Malawian radios now streaming online. Radio 247 Malawi is the […]
Malawi’s two top notch journalists who are closely investigating into the infamous cashgate scandal are claiming that they are receiving death threats from unknown people in the course of doing their work. Mabvuto Banda who also files for Reuters News Agency and Inter Press Service, and Ephraim Munthali, Head of Investigative Unit at the flagship daily Nation newspaperssaid during Tiuzeni Zoona program […]
Editor of Malawi Voice an online publication Justice Mponda was arrested on Friday in Blantyre for allegedly trying to extort money. Police has confirmed that they were holding Mponda in cell. In an alert to Malawian journalists on their internet discussion forum, chairperson of the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), […]
Malawian investigative journalist Mabvuto Banda is among the top four finalists in a pan African investigative journalism competition organized by the African Media Initiative (AMI) . AMI, is the continents largest association of media owners and operators in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Mabvuto was among the 20 finalists picked on the continent […]
Since we arrived in Balaka we have had some very good time. The meals at Kozemberana Lodge are unbelievably delicious. If President Jacob Zuma tasted them, he would immediately change his views about Malawi’s state of development. In the evenings we have been out to entertainment joints whose names we will not reveal. In the […]
Malawi’s ruling People’s Party has reacted to the statement from Misa-Malawi over the arrest of Galaxy Radio journalist Sylvester Namiwa arguing the Joyce Banda administration is not bent towards gagging the media but warned the media that the freedom and democracy in the country are not an open cheque for unprofessional journalism. Police nabbed Namiwa on […]