Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has offered his country’s deepest sympathies and condolences to Queen Elizabeth II on the passing of Prince Philip who died at Windsor Castle on Friday, aged 99 years—two months short of clocking 100 years. Philip was husband to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for 73 years—the longest serving royal […]
President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera says Malawi is ready to host the forthcoming Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) extraordinary meeting scheduled to take place in August, this year. The President was speaking at a press briefing at Maputo International Airport in Mozambique on Thursday before departure for Malawi after attending the Extraordinary Double Troika Summit on to […]
Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika heads of state summit which Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera attended on Thursday in Maputo said the acts of terrorism perpetrated against innocent civilians in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, could not be allowed to continue without a proportionate regional response. Since 2017, an Islamist insurgency has raged in Mozambique’s oil-rich Cabo Delgado […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has left Lilongwe for Maputo for the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Extraordinary Double Troika Summit which seeks to find a lasting solution to the Islamic insurgency in Mozambique. Speaking on departure at the Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Thursday morning, Chakwera said Malawi, as a neighbour to Mozambique, has an obligation to […]
President Lazarus Chakwera leaves for Mozambique this morning to attend a Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Double Troika Summit which will discuss the Islamic insurgency in northern Mozambique. President Phillipe Nyuse of Mozambique has however ruled out allowing foreign troops in his country to fight the terrorists. He says what is important is to strengthen […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has urged commissioners of the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) to take on the work of championing human rights by ensuring that they also practice human rights to match their language at the taxpayer funded human rights watchdog. Chakwera said this when he swore in lawyer Chikondi Chijozi to join the seventh cohort […]
Inspector General of Police George Kainja has hinted that police have launched an investigations against outspoken human rights activist and head of the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (Cdedi) , Silvester Namiwa, over disparaging comments he made against President Lazarus Chakwera in which he described Chakwera as a joker, time-waster and a comedian […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is scheduled to travel to Maputo, Mozambique where the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders that make up the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation on Thursday, 8 April 2021 will hold a meeting in Maputo to explore avenues of putting an end to the terrorist attacks that have rocked Mozambique’s Cabo […]
Malawi Police summoned Nyasa Times journalist Watipaso Mzungu on Tuesday and held him detained at Area 30 Police headquarters in Lilongwe, interrogating him over a story published online on 1st April 2021 that quoted head of Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiative (Cdedi) Sylvester Namiwa who called President Lazarus Chakwera a joker and a […]
A grouping of political scientists have given a sharp criticism to President Lazarus Chakwera for his failure to be accountable in the way the review of cabinet as he indicated that he was going to subject the ministers to a follow up assessment where each minister will have to make a report on how they […]
“Take we the course which the signs of the gods and the false dealing of our foes point out. The dice is cast.” – Julius Caesar In April 2016, we debuted in the Times Family; in the Daily Times of Friday 29 April 2016, to be specific, with an entry titled “Accidental leadership will be […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is seeking judicial review on the appointment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners Arthur Nanthulu, Steve Duwa, Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga and in a matter filed at Lilongwe registry of the High Court, the party has put State President , the position currently held by Lazarus Chakwera, as defendant in […]
The vibrant human rights watchdog, the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI), has described President Lazarus Chakwera as a Fools’ Day comedian for deferring indefinitely the release of the new Cabinet. In February this year, Chakwera promised the nation that he be reconstituting his Cabinet before the end of March 2021 after assessing […]
A political commentator says president Lazarus Chakwera can do better by not making promises which he can hardly fulfil. This follows his failure to announce a new cabinet on March 31. Humphrey Mvula said Chakwera was pressuring himself by presenting to the public promises he is failing to fulfil. Chakwera promised he will announce his […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has urged the Malawi national football team nicknamed the Flames, to stay focused and not be the whipping boys in the 2022 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be held in Cameroonian capital, Yaounde. Chakwera, who is the former Malawi National Sports Council board chair, sounded the encouraging remarks Thursday afternoon when […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawi is ready to draw inspiration from Asia’s remarkable economic transformation. Chakwera said this in Lilongwe Wednesday during the launch of the book The Asian Aspiration – Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia seeks to answer. Co-authored by Director of The Brenthurst Foundation. Greg Mills, Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo Olusegun Obasanjo, former Prime […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has tweaked his cabinet line-up which was to be released on Wednesday, and is finalising the list of ministers that would revamp the image of a Tonse Alliance government hit by graft scandals by some ministers. Nyasa Times sources indicate that the President was considering some new faces who include Malawi Congress […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed delight with a crop inspection report that Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe presented to him on Tuesday which has projected a bumper yield due to his Tonse Alliance government’s flagship Affordable Input Program (AIP). The report was presented at Kamuzu Palace in which the ministry beamed a video documentary depicting […]