Just a few months after President Joyce Banda’s failure to sign the to sign the Table Mountain Declaration media accord, two leading Civil Society Organisations in the area of human rights, rule of law and democratic governance have come out strongly against the government for its continued inaction to endorse the document, urging it to ‘follow the footsteps’ […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission, MEC, media institutions and regulatory bodies in the country Wednesday signed media code of conduct for reporting 2014 to ensure free and fair tripartite elections in 2014 at Cresta Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe The Media Council of Malawi and Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) called for the public media institutions […]
Parliamentary chief security officer Youngson Chilinda on Thursday beat up journalist Thoko Chikondi of Nation Publications Limited (NPL) at the National Assembly. Chilinda attacked the journalist as she was taking pictures of Consumer Association of Malawi (Cama) executive director John Kapito after he presented the petition to the Speaker. He suspected the journalist was taking pictures without his consent. […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has decide that her entourage on foreign presidential engagements should now be including members of the private media to enable them service their own audience. President Banda has taken the unprecedented decision to deliver on her commitment of ensuring that the media in Malawi should be an integral partner in the […]
President Joyce Banda was called to duty on Friday to deliver the State of the Nation address in Parliament where, traditionally, she is supposed to update her countrymen – yes, her countrywomen too – what the state of the nation currently is. Indeed, how are we fairing as a people? Is our situation bad, good, […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has appealed to interactive media and online publications to censure readers’ comments and ensure that there’s sanity in the road to 2014 tripartite elections. MEC Commissioner Elvey Mtafu made the appeal Monday in Blantyre when she opened a BRIDGE seminar for media managers in Blantyre, the first that MEC is […]
From two weeks ago, after Malawi President Joyce Banda hosted in audience representatives of the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa), who lobbied her to sign the Declaration of Table Mountain, much has been said about the declaration. The President is yet to sign. We reproduce the declaration in full: Abolishing […]
President Joyce Banda has said that Malawians should not think that for being a woman leader she is brainless person who can be signing anything without proper consultations. She made the statement on Monday during a political rally she held at Utale Community Day Secondary school area in the eastern district of Balaka. The statement […]
Minister of Information and Civic Education, Moses Kunkuyu has assured Malawians to witness transformed Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television and radio stations from being a tool for advancing party and state propaganda to a public service broadcaster come December this year. The minister made the declaration during a Sunday Round Table discussion aired on Capital […]
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), an umbrella organisation for major faith communities represented in Malawi has reacted angrily to President Joyce Banda’s failure to sign the to sign the Table Mountain Declaration media accord. The committee says the manner in which President Banda has behaved in handling issues surrounding media freedom and governance over the last few weeks is […]
Malawi has been ranked on position 75 from 146 last year on Press Freedom Index 2013 released by Reporters Without Borders showing Malawi has jumped 71 steps. The ranking has been welcomed by government, saying it calls for celebrations. Kunkunyu who featured on Sunday Round Table Discussion Forum at Capital Radio said: “Malawi being ranked on […]
By the way, President Joyce Banda’s overly ballistic remarks the other day that the Malawi media was a good-for-nothing lot capable of killing the whole president will not stop to haunt her any time soon. If truth be told, those remarks took everybody by surprise coming from a leader who remained relevant in her dog […]
Chairperson of the Malawi’s media watchdog MISA- Malawi Anthony Kasunda on Saturday night accused Minister of Information Moses Kunkuyu of lying to the nation that government was caught unawares on the rejected Declaration of Table Mountain which representatives of journalists wanted President Joyce Banda to sign last week. Kasunda, who was speaking during the award […]
Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) were the only media organizations in print and electronic category respectively which dominated the annual Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa – MISA-Malawi awards presentation ceremony held at Mount Soche hotel in Blantyre on Saturday. The awards were presented as part of commemorating […]
Malawi government spokesperson Moses Kunkuyu has said representatives of the country’s media watchdog, National Media Institute for Southern Africa (Namisa) goofed by using “the backdoor” in an attempt to coax State President Joyce Banda to sign the press freedom accord known as the Table Mountain Declaration. President Banda this week refused without giving proper reasons to […]
The youth of today are living in a new world. If those who died many years ago resurrected today, they would be surprised to see a new culture that has emerged and engulfed the youths. Social media is the hub of this emerging culture. Social media which constitutes Facebook, Twitter, Skype and others is becoming […]
British High Commissioner to Malawi, Michael Nevin has urged Malawi government to create an environment that would help to transform Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from state controlled media house to a public broadcaster. He was addressing media practitioners in Lilongwe on Tuesday evening as part of the observance of World Press Freedom Day on May […]
British High Commissioner to Malawi, Michael Nevin has said the country needs its media to flourish, saying society should be in no doubt that without a vibrant media, there will not be a vibrant country. Nevin was speaking in Lilongwe on Tuesday evening to a gathering of journalists as part of the observance of World […]