Scotland’s International Development Minister Humza Yousaf has announced that work to support civic society links between Scotland and Malawi will be strengthened with additional funding from the Scottish Government. He says the Scottish Government will award £137,000 to support the Malawi Scotland Partnership (MaSP) to continue its work to inspire, facilitate and strengthen existing and […]
This year, we have been marking 50 years of Malawi’s independence. Malawi’s history has a strong connection with the UK, but particularly with Scotland – one only has to highlight David Livingstone and Blantyre as examples. Over my two years as High Commissioner here I have seen the Malawi – UK, and especially Scotland, relationship […]
The British coalition government has a painted a rosy picture on the way its Home Office has been handling visas for Malawi visitors to UK after mounting pressure from members of parliament who criticised the “disproportionate” application regime. MPs in Westminsteraccused the British government of discriminating against visitors from Malawi who want to come to […]
About 37 Malawian students have been awarded scholarships to study at masters level starting in September this year with £100,000 funding from Scotland Malawi Partnership (MSP) to support the students studying across six institutions in the country. The scholarship programme was introduced last year to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Scottish explorer David Livingstone. Humza […]
The Scottish Government is calling for proposal on Malawi development program 2015 to 2018. It has put 3 October 2014 as the deadline for applicants with projects to start no earlier than 1 April 2015. Program Manager for the Malawi Scotland Partnership (MaSP) Clement Masangano says in the statement that they have increased their individual project budgets this time, to a maxium of […]
The University of Edinburgh has published a new report looking at the scale and impact of the 155 special friendship between Scotland and Malawi. 10,000 more Scots are now actively involved in dignified two-way partnerships, compared to the previous study published in 2010. The University found that 94,000 Scots and 198,000 Malawians are working together each […]
Scotland’s former First Minister and members of Malawi’s Commonwealth Games team today celebrated the strong Scotland-Malawi links at an event in Glasgow. Jack McConnell was joined by Team Malawi at the first ever ‘Pop-Up Malawi House’ at Strathclyde University Union to help raise awareness of the 155 year old partnership between the two nations. The […]
Malawi Queens netball side finished their Pool A fixture on a high Tuesday everning by beating hosts of the 2014 Glasgow XX Commonwealth Games , Scotland by 62-35. The Malawi side can no longer realistically challenge for the championship, but just the third place in the Pool A after their 50-81 loss to fourth-ranked Jamaica […]
Malawi cycling team has been given new bikes by a Glasgow shop after theirs were found to be unfit for purpose, reported Scotland Television (STV). Neil Bilsland, of independent bike shop Bilsland Cycles, said he found out that the cycles which Team Malawi came with from Africa, were in a poor state of repair and […]
Malawian artists, Tay Grin and Mafilika are at the end of next month expected to perform in Glasgow, Scotland. The rapper and the band will share the stage with the duo of Swedish Johan Karlberg and Malawian Esau Mwamwaya, better known as The Very Best. They will be traveling to the European nation courtesy of […]
Young people in Malawi and Scotland need to benefit more from new efforts to strengthen links between the two countries’ education systems, the Scottish Government has said . According to a statement from the Malawi-Scotland Partnership office in Lilongwe, Scottish Government’s Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages, Alasdair Allan, said this in Edinburgh, Scotland, […]
The Malawi Scotland Partnership is announcing a second round of its “Malawi-Scotland David Livingstone Scholarship Programme”, with an additional £100,000 (over MK66 million) invested by the Scottish Government. This second year of the programme will support another 30 young, gifted and underprivileged Malawian students to study at a Masters level within Malawi. Dr Matthews Mtumbuka, […]
A pair of outstanding Malawian scholars has won prestigious awards to pursue post-graduate studies at a top-notch distinctive Scottish university in the United Kingdom. According to Glasgow Caledonian University’s international Communications officer for the Directorate of External and Community relations Lynn McGarry, this is the first time a Scottish university and housing association have teamed […]
Scotland has boosted Malawi’s Commonwealth Games participation next year with the announcement that it would provide 47 free return air tickets for the Glasgow Games. Scotland Minister responsible for Commonwealth Games and Sport Genna Park broke the good news during a private meeting with Vice-President Khumbo Kachali, who is attending Commonwealth Heads of Meeting being […]
A total of 13 Scottish pupils from Glasgow’s Secondary Schools are on expedition to Malawi as part of a learning partnership with the Southern African nation. The pupils will be joined by a team of construction workers from the Glasgow City Council and City Building on a mercy mission to provide odern medical facilities, according […]
The Malawi government in partnership with the Scottish government has embarked on a programme to build capacity of 2000 prospective women councilors countrywide as part of Malawi’s efforts to close the gender imbalance in political and decision making positions. In Malawi, the Ministry of Gender is championing the project in collaboration with targeted accredited NGOs. […]
Three Scottish police, among them one officer who served for 17 years in Northern Ireland, will travel to Malawi to share their expertise on riot training and public disorder ahead of the 2014 tripartite elections. The three officers, according to UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, travel to Malawi to share their expertise on tackling public […]
The Scotland Malawi Partnership (SMP) a national umbrella body representing Scotland’s many civil society links with Malawi has opened nominations for Malawi university students for David Livingstone Bicentenary Scholarships Programme. This is part of its wider Malawi Development programme in which Scottish Government has awarded a one-off grant of £100,000 to establish the Scholarship Programme. In a […]