Government has given consent to Paladin to sell off all its 85 per cent shares in Kayelekera uranium mine in Karonga. Peter Chilowomanga, deputy director of mines in the ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources has confirmed that his ministry and the ministry of Finance and Economic Planning have given a go ahead to […]
Critics are questioning whether the 3.5 royalty rate to Paladin Energy has been given exchange control approval by Malawi authorities after the Australian miner has agreed to sell its 85% interest in the Kayelekera uranium mine to Hylea Metals Ltd for USD3.5 million in cash and shares. The contract gives government an opportunity to revise […]
Paaladin Energy, operators of Kayelekela Uranaium Mine in Karonga Malawi and Langer Heinrich in Namibia has filed for insolvency at the Australian high court after the company failed to pay a debt of USD277 million to a France based company called Electricite de France. Kayelekera Uranium Mine in northern Malawi was the country’s only large-scale […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) an opposition party with its base in the northern part of Malawi has sued Paladin, uranium miners at Kayerekera in Karonga for a K350 million for allegedly causing cancer and death to some people. Lawyers from United Kingdom, who were in the country for preliminary investigations on the classic lawsuit have […]
Former energy and mines minister Grain Malunga has been told to stop getting himself involved in Paladin Africa Limited (PAL) – miners at the Kayerekela Uranium Mine – with Karonga communities saying they still feel cheated by the company as far as their social corporate responsibility is concerned. Malunga who reportedly works with PAL now […]
Uranium miner Paladin (Africa) Limited has retrenched 18 Malawians and four expatriates at Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga, an internal memo issued on Friday, March 31 2017 to all employees said. The memo signed by the general manager (operations) Alec Sharland said the development follows the suspension of production at the mine three years ago. […]
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Bright Msaka Wednesday told parliament that Kayerekera uranium mine which stopped its operations in 2015, will resume its operations in a month’s time. Msaka was responding to a supplementary question by Chitipa South Parliamentarian Werani Chilenga who wanted to know the status of Kayerekera uranium mine situated in […]
The Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) in collaboration with the residents of Karonga have agreed to sue the mining investors in the district, for spoiling the environment as well as infringing the rights of workers. The concerned companies include Paladin Africa Limited and Eland Coal mine Company. Speaking during the interface meeting which […]
Paladin Energy Limited has downplayed a Nyasa Times report that the floods terror in Karonga have resulted in the flooding of Kayerekela Uranium Mine tailing dams, a development that has sent shivers of apprehension among water users in the district. Nyasa Times correspondent in Karonga reported last week that the uranium stakeout dams at Kayelekera […]
Australia’s uranium miner, Paladin Energy has refuted a report that appeared in the Daily Times newspaper of Malawi that it had sold all or part of its Kayelekera Mine in Karonga. The newspaper reported that Paladin has divested of an interest in its Kayelekera mineto the China National Nuclear Corporation. But the company in a […]
Senior members of staff at the uranium mine, Kayelekera in Karonga were Tuesday morning forced to walk to work after drivers refused to pick them up over vehicle management disagreement. Some of the drivers said in an interview that management had brought in strict and unbearable measures in a bid to stop illegal siphoning of […]
Uranium Australian miner Paladin Energy Limited has suspended further exploration activities of uranium in Malawi following uncertainty hovering around its five exclusive prospecting licences (EPLs). Paladin has a major uranium-mining project at Kayelekera, in northern Malawi, and the five EPLs cover areas close to Kayelekera Mine (KM in Karonga. According to Paladin former managing director […]
Paladin Energy Limited which runs the Kayerekera Uranium Project in Malawi has announced the stepping down of its Board and Managing Director and CEO John Borshoff from his role with the company. The Company’s non-executive chairman Rick Crabb says in a statement that Paladin board acknowledges Borshoff’s “unquestioned dedication and significant contribution to Paladin, a […]
Communities living along the northern part of Lake Malawi in Karonga district have launched a spirited campaign to stop Uranium Miner Paladin Africa Limited from dumping ‘toxic’ waste into Lake Malawi. They say the move will put people’s lives at risk and damage the environment. But it seems their fight is being stone walled by […]
Uranium miner Paladin has rejected the susbstance of the report by Action Aid Malawi that states that Malawi government has lost out on more than US$43 million in tax to the Australian mining multinational , saying it is “fundamentally unsound”. Paladin’s General Manager for Malawi, Greg Walker told Nyasa Times that Action Aid Malawi did […]
A study conducted by Action Aid Malawi has revealed that Malawi government has lost out on more than US$43 million in tax to the Australian mining multinational Paladin who started operating in the country six years ago to mine uranium for sale in North America. In a report findings disseminated in Lilongwe this week and […]
Uranium miner at the Kayelekera in northern Malawi, Paladin, has rejected a claim by the Karonga-based activist, Wavisunga Silungwe, that he has obtained a High Court injunction restraining the company from discharging treated runoff water from the mine into the local river system. Last Thursday, 07 March 2015, Silungwe held a media briefing in Karonga […]
The Paladin (Africa) Limited company has finally started disposing its treated dam water from Kayelekera uranium mine near Karonga in the northern part of Malawi into the local Sere – North Rukuru river system which drains its waters into Lake Malawi. Paladin Africa Managing Director in Malawi, Greg Walker, confirmed to Nyasa Times that the company, indeed, started releasing the […]