Police in Lilongwe on Monday detained former Zambian First Lady Vera Chiluba and a Nigerian pastor for allegedly soliciting money by false pretence, reports the Weekend Nation of Saturday, February 25, 2012. According to the newspaper, one of the Malawian pastors who hosted the two, Reverend Ian Longwe, Vera, who was wife to former Zambian […]
Malawi National Soccer Team, the Flames, has climbed a single step up in both the world and African ranks according to Fifa’s latest rankings released on Wednesday January 15th, 2012. The Flames, who are currently in camp expecting face Chad month end have only managed to move up with a single step in both world and […]
The Synagogue Church of All Nations (Socan) in Nigeria has clarifies about a prophecy made by Prophet TB Joshua that an old African dictator is dying, saying he did not give a time frame. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the Synagogue church also underlined that TB Joshua who is renowned for making […]
Malawi will in June host an African Union (AU) summit which will hold a run-off vote to choose a new chairman for the AU’s influential executive Commission. The first election of the post ended in deadlock Monday between South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who sought to unseat outgoing chairman Jean Ping from Gabon. […]
Former President Bakili Muluzi did not play any role in restoring relations between Malawi and Zambia, Malawi’s Information Minister Patricia Kaliati has said. Recently, Muluzi flew to Zambia to persuade President Michael Sata to forgive President Bingu Mutharika who have been regarded as archrivals over the last four years since the unceremonious hounding out of […]
Malawi Presidet Bingu wa Mutharika finally met his Zambian counterpart Michael Sata on Saturday night and they hugged, had a friendly chat since the former’s deportation from that country in 2007, The Post newspaper of Zambia reported on Monday. The paper said the meeting of the two happened at South Africa’s governing African National Congress […]
The diplomatic relations between Lilongwe and Lusaka which was said to be mended risks to strained again following statements by Malawi President’s spokesman linking Zambia’s President Michael Sata to a coup plot. As an opposition leader, Sata was deported from Malawi in 2006 by the Bingu wa Mutharika government when he was visiting former President […]
MalawiPresident Bingu wa Mutharika has welcomed the stand taken byZambiaPresident Michael Sata to forgive him following a diplomatic row that has soured relations between the two neighboring countries. Mutharika’s spokesman, Hetherwick Ntaba, told Times of Zambia that the Malawian leader has welcomed the reconciliatory message from President Sata. Sata said he has forgiven Mutharika following […]
Zambia’s Informantion, Broadcasting and Tourism Minister Given Lubinda has advised his Malawian counterpart Patricia Kaliatu not to be mischievous over PresidentMichael Sata’s decision to forgive President Bingu Wa Mutharika over his decision to deport Sata in 2007. According to Times of Zambia, Lubinda was reacting to Kaliati’s statement that the Malawian government had not yet received official communication from the […]
Malawi’s retired president Bakili Muluzi on Friday successfully resolved the diplomatic standoff between President Bingu wa Mutharika and Zambian leader Micheal Sata arising from a 2007 deportation of Zambia’s President when he was opposition leader then. Muluzi, who arrived in Zambia on Wednesday for a two-day visit, had an audience with Zambian President on Friday […]
Malawi‘s former president Bakili Muluzi on Wednesday arrived in Zambia to pay a two-day visit at invitation from President Michael Sata. Muluzi, who left Chileka Airport in Blantyre aboard an Air Malawi ATR 42 plane, jetted in Lusaka at 11am through Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. He was received by Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chishimba Kambwili […]
Zambia President Micheal Chilufya Sata has invited Malawi’s retired president Bakili Muluzi to Lusaka. Secretrary General of Zamba’s ruling Patriotic Front, Wynter Kabimba and Muluzi confirmed about the visit. Kabimba said President Sata wants to express his appreciation to Muluzi “for the support he rendered to him during difficult time.” Honour Muluzi told Nyasa Times […]
The stand taken by Zambian president Michael Sata to refuse to forgive his Malawian counterpart Bingu wa Mutharika has forced former Minister of Sports Moses Dossi to ask Sata for clemency. Dossi has written President Sata and sent the letter to Zambia’s embassy in Malawi pleading with him to forgive Mutharika, saying what Mutharika did […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika failed to give a comprehensive answer on the diplomatic stand-off between Malawi and Zambia arising from a 2007 deportation of Zambia’s President Michael Sata when he was opposition leader then. “I had expected that President Sata would come to attend the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Summit in Australia where […]
It is Kafkaesque! Recently the Malawi Government explained it was ‘reversing’ its deportations of former British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, and that of new Zambian President Michael Sata. Sata was deported in 2007, before he became President of Zambia, when he entered Malawi to visit ex-President Bakili Muluzi. Government does not explain why it removed […]
Things are getting worse for embattled Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika as his ‘relationship’ with the new Zambian president Michael Sata continues to get strained by the day. The latest being the eviction of Malawi’s envoy from the Zambian premises in Dar –es- Salaam after the Zambian government hiked rent by 200 percent. According to […]
Zambia’s former First Lady and wife to defeated former president Rupiah Bwezani Banda is being accused by her country of siphoning billions of money and invested in Malawi. The former First Lady, Thandiwe Banda who is alleged to be a multi billionaire is accused of hugely acquiring and owning major properties ranging from houses, classy […]
Apparently inspired by newly-elected Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata, aging Malawi Congress Party (MCP) John Zenus Ungapake – JZU- Tembo says he would seek a third run for the country’s presidency in the 2014 General Elections. Sata, 74, recently led his opposition Patriotic Front (PF) to the historic victory Zambia to become president after two […]