Malawi’s main opposition party has redrawn its internal political geography, in a restructuring exercise that signals its determination to rebuild from the ground up after last year’s bruising electoral defeat. The Malawi Congress Party’s national executive committee, meeting in Lilongwe, pressed ahead with plans to split both the Southern and Central Regions into three zones […]
There was a conspicuous absence at the Malawi Congress Party’s national executive committee meeting in Lilongwe on Wednesday — not of any person, but of a single word: succession. For all the closed doors and careful stage-management at the party’s City Centre headquarters, the one issue dominating whispered conversations among MCP members — the future […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Secretary General Richard Chimwendo Banda has hit back at a bogus resignation letter circulating on social media, branding it a forgery and insisting he has absolutely no intention of walking away from his role. The senior party official took to Facebook on 6 September to shut down the swirling rumours, firing […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and the country’s sixth president, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, held a two-hour meeting with party secretary general Richard Chimwendo Banda at MCP headquarters in Lilongwe, according to a statement issued by the party. The engagement, described by MCP as being in the spirit of strengthening and building the party, focused […]
Former president Lazarus Chakwera has been handed a rousing show of support from grassroots Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials, with chants of “Ayimenso!” — Chichewa for “let him rise again!” — ringing out as the party’s District Chairperson for Kasungu East, Chisomo Mbembeza, publicly endorsed him as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2030 election. […]
Explosive High Court injunction bars self-styled “Veterans” group, sponsored by former President himself, from suspending secretary general or locking party HQ Malawi’s High Court has dramatically intervened in an escalating internal war engulfing the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), granting an injunction that stops a rogue faction — allegedly organised and sponsored by party leader Lazarus […]
Dramatic showdown erupts as ex-party loyalists face grilling over brazen office lockdown targeting secretary general RIchard Chimwendo Banda. Chaos has erupted within the Malawi Congress Party after a rogue group calling itself MCP Veterans was hauled before police — accused of storming in and slamming shut the office of the party’s own secretary general. The […]
Member of Parliament for Dowa East and MCP Secretary General, Richard Chimwendo Banda, has waded into the ongoing controversy over the seat change for Mangochi Monkey Bay MP Gerald Kazembe, dismissing the move as nothing more than “normal parliamentary management” that plays out on all sides of the House. Rising on a point of order, […]
“I came to Malawi to seek refuge and protection. I just wanted to live life like a normal human being, not to be caged as if I am a vicious.” Malawi’s Homeland Security Minister Richard Chimwendo Banda, who announced that the Malawi government would move to relocate the refugees back to a designated area at […]
The Government of Malawi will have to wait a little longer to finalize its campaign to relocate refugees and asylum seekers to Dzaleka Refugee Camp as the High Court in Lilongwe has reserved its ruling on the injunction refugees and asylum seekers obtained last month. The court order stopped the government from enforcing the relocation […]
“Not related to current court injunction on Dzaleka refugees.” Malawi Police Service, in conjunction with the Department of Immigration, on Sunday arrested 158 foreigners who have been illegally living and operating their businesses in the country in various parts of the country. Confirming the development, national police deputy spokesperson, Peter Kalaya said the suspects have […]
Minister of Homeland Security, Richard Chimwendo Banda, says there is “no turning back” and has reaffirmed his ministry’s commitment to have refugees return to Dzaleka amidst an injunction still hanging in the air arguing that, by Malawi law, it is where they belong. Last week some refugees led by Abdul Nahimana obtained an injunction to […]
“We really appreciate the kind gesture.” The Chinese government has donated some security equipment worth K200 million to the Malawi Police to help curb crime in the country. The donated equipment include, among others, 300 tents, bullet proofs, handcuffs and binoculars. Chinese Ambassador to Lilongwe Liu Hongyang making the donation said the Republic of China […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has warned the Malawi Government to tread carefully on the implementation of its order to relocate refugees and asylum seekers back to Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa. The human rights watchdog fears the action may spark xenophobia against the refugees if the government does not handle the matter carefully. […]
Parliament has successfully muzzled Mulanje south west parliamentarian George Chaponda who wanted to ask president Lazarus Chakwera reports that his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was training 75 youth league members at police training school on the use of firearms. Before Chaponda could press the question, leader of the House, Richard Chimwendo Banda sprung up swiftly, […]
Government says it is rolling out a program to train motorcycle taxi operators popularly known as Kabaza following a boom in accidents. Homeland Security Minister Richard Chimwendo Banda has told Parliament today that government will train the kabaza operators certify them both at district and traditional authority levels. The Minister said the development follows a […]
Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda has insisted that the election campaign promise of non-renewable passport at K14 000 will still be implemented but that government has delayed because the new administration found a passport deal worth $60 billion (K90 billion) which the DPP administration signed with a passport supplier; hence, is waiting for […]
Chikwawa Central member of parliament (MP) Salim Bagus has said State security personnel surely deserve better accommodation like everyone else and asked government to construct houses for police officers and a fence at Nchalo Police Station. Bagus, who won his seat as an independent but is now member of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), said in […]