COMMENTARY: Two reports have freely been circulating on the Internet and social forums in the last couple of days namely that State Vice President, Right Honourable Joyce Banda, is seeking asylum in Zambia; and Joyce Banda would be arrested for treason by Malawian authorities for attending celebrations marking the independence of the Republic of Zambia […]
Malawian Vice President Joyce Banda has arrived in the country from Zambia where she went on a “private visit”. Vice President Banda arrived through Chileka airport on Thursday amidst rumours that she was seeking sanctuary in Zambia following reports that Malawi government wanted her arrested. But Banda, who said she went to Zambia in her […]
Malawi’s private Joy TV says it will register in Zambia as a limited liability company in that country and will beam to Southern Africa without interfering with any frequency dismissing claims by Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) that it will be “illegal.” Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi told The Nation newspaper and Capital Radio’s Daybreak Malawi that […]
A Lilongwe based media expert has warned that Joy Television broadcasting from Zambia will be dangerous to President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his administration than leaving the TV station to broadcast in Malawi. His comments follow an announcement that newly elected Zambian President Micheal Sata has given a green light to Joy Television, which has […]
Zambia President Micheal Chilufya Sata has shunned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika at his country’s 47th independence celebrations but extended his invitation to vice president Joyce Banda and former president Bakili Muluzi. The 47th independence celebrations for Zambia will be held on Monday October 24 in Lusaka and will be Sata’s maiden investiture ceremony as head of […]
The Magic word! “…Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder…The feeling of the nation […]
Revelations have emerged that following a raging diplomatic row between Malawi and Zambia, which saw newly elected Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata boycotting the 15th COMESA Heads of State Summit in Lilongwe over the weekend, his Vice Guy Scott was denied the opportunity to make a speech at the event. President Sata did not attend […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is adamant that he has not issued an apology to Britain for the deportation of its envoy but has only withdrawn the expulsion status. Mutharika, speaking through his spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba, said similarly he has also not apologised to Zambia President Micheal Sata but only revoked a four-year-old deportation order […]
Ex-president Bakili Muluzi’s Joy TV which was stopped by Malawi authorities on its inception has been permitted to establish their station in Zambia’s Eastern Province, according to President Micheal Sata. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) denied Joy television broadcasts in 2007, when it had already started beaming. But son to former president Muluzi, Atupele, requested […]
Malawi government is finally coming to grips with the fact that it cannot do without Western help, especially the frozen British aid – at least not in the manner that it decided to let Britain’s £19 million annual budgetary support slip when there was still a chance to rescue it. Yet President Bingu wa Mutharika […]
Malawi government has announced that deported British High Commissioner, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet and Zambia’s new President Michael Sata are no longer persona non grata and that they are welcomed in the country. The announcement was made by office of the president and cabinet secretary Bright Msaka through state broadcaster MBC on Friday. Msaka said the two […]
Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott has warned of increasing strained diplomatic relations with Malawi, if the Bingu wa Mutharika administration will not apologise to Zambia Presisent Micheal Sata for declaring him prohibited immigrant four years ago. Scott told reporters in Lilongwe that he has come to represent Zambia during the Comesa summit as Malawi has […]
Zambia’s President Michael Sata on Saturday rejected an invitation by Malawian President Bingu Mutharika to attend the COMESA Heads of State summit in Lilongwe because his counterpart had failed to apologise for having him expelled five years ago. According to Zambia Watchdog, President Mutharika sent Malawi’s envoy in Zambia, David Bandawe to deliver the invitation […]
Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda on Saturday paid homage to the late Robert Chasowa, a fourth-year engineering student and political activist who was found dead under suspicious circumstances within the Polytechnic campus on September 24, 2011. Chasowa was the vice-chair of a student activist group, Youth for Democracy (YFD). The YFD printed a weekly pro-democracy […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Zambian President Rupiah Banda has said there is nothing wrong about being a Malawian, saying it is an African country. Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) party of Michael Sata, the anticipated main contender against President Banda in the September 20 polls, dragged the Zambian leader’s alleged Malawian paternal ancestry dispute to the […]