Major casualties in Malawi’s ruling People’s Party convention have claimed to have no ill feelings after failing to win top positions but were conspicuously cross with the defeats. Casualties at the convention held in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre on Monday, were the party’s old guards, Brown Mpinganjira and Clement Stambuli, defeated by new comers on […]
People’s Party (PP) president Mrs. Joyce Banda, who is also Malawi’s first female Head of State, opened the party’s first ever convention, recognizing staunch supporters and in the process also de-campaigning party officials. Banda, who spoke right after party and national vice president, Khumbo Kachale, said some people risked arrest by campaigning for her cause […]
SPECIAL ANALYSIS: Former State Vice president Cassim Chilumpha and Home Affairs Minister Uladi Mussa are expected to go head to head for the position of vice president for the ruling People’s Party at its first ever indaba on Monday in Blantyre. PP goes to the polls in preparation for the 2014 tripartite elections and has […]
Transport and Public Works Minister Sidik Mia has apologised to President Joyce Banda for the ‘bad dream’ she experienced during late Bingu wa Mutharika’s reign. He also promised Malawi’s and Southern Africa’s first woman president of over 400,000 votes from the Lower Shire. He told thousands gathered at Khombedza, Ngabu, in Chikwawa district that it […]
Six companies have submitted bids to draw up a viability study of the Malawian proposal to open the Zambezi and Shire rivers to international shipping, according to a report on Radio Mozambique. The bids are now under consideration by the Malawian government, the secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Development Bank (ADB). […]
Peoples Party (PP) deputy publicity secretary Ken Msonda has been collecting money from the party’s leadership in the name of journalists but never gave the money to the beneficiaries. “At one time he collected K60 000 which he said he wanted to give some journalists that he wanted to meet but to our knowledge, that […]
Malawi’s governing Peoples Party (PP) at the weekend sent a strong contingent to the lower shire district of Chikhwawa in a bid to cool down tensions that have reached boiling point between the party’s district committee and Transport and Public Infrastructure Minister Sidik Mia. The tensions emanated last week after Mia, a Chikhwawa Nkombezi parliamentarian […]
Leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Peter Mutharika has now a special political adviser, veteran politician Harry Thomson. DPP secretary general Wakuda Kamanga said the party appointed Thomson to be Mutharika’s special political adviser because the DPP leader needs an adviser. Said Kamanga, “Mutharika requires some special advice.” Thomson once belonged to UDF where he […]
After escorting their former leader, late Bingu wa Mutharika, to his final resting place in a dignified manner, it was time for the thousands mourners to return to their respective homes. But not all reached their destinations. Nsanje District is today mourning the fatal departure of six members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who […]
Scores of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members have pledged their allegiance to newly installed President Joyce Banda, subsequently marking an end of the once mighty ruling party. Banda has her own People’s Party which she formed after being expelled from the DPP for opposing moved by President Bingu wa Mutharika to hand over power to […]
Transport Minister Sidik Mia who vehemently opposed moves by other ministers to subvert the Constitution on Saturday rallied ministers to the resident of Vice President Joyce Banda to give her the authority to take charge of the country under the terms of the constitution following the death of President Bingo wa Mutharika. The Ministers have […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has called for a cabinet meeting this (Saturday) evening to, among others, discuss how the country will mourn the country’s departed leader Bingu wa Mutharika. Her Excellency Mrs Banda said at a media briefing Saturday morning at her Area 12 residence in Lilongwe the meeting will focus on Mutharika’s death and […]
Malawi government has put up a “substantial case” to the AU inspection team justifying how the country is prepared to host the summit, according to Minister of Transport Mohammed Sidik Mia, who is chairing the committee working on the summit preparations. The AU pre-summit inspection team which visited the country recently to inspect its facilities […]
Some angry constituents from Blantyre Ndirande Malabada have questioned the reasoning of their Member of Parliament Aaron Sangala following his recent weird actions. Sangala, who is also National Defense and Internal Affairs Minister, was first involved in an ugly scuffle with lady Parliamentarian Anita Kalinde right inside the National Assembly where he reportedly had his […]
Lower Shire political strongman, Transport Minister Sidik Mia, has said the ruling DPP should be assured of massive support and votes from the region for its presidential candidate Arthur-Peter Mutharika in 2014. Speaking on Saturday after the opening of 46 kilometre Nsanje-Bangula road named Khuluvi Highway which has been constructed at the tune of the […]
Four delegates from Malawi’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development led by Minister Sidik Mia are in Mozambique to discuss with authorities of the most strategic country in the entire Nsanje world inland Port which has been unused since it was launched in October 2011. This is the 11th of joint technical meeting on Shire […]
Malawi’s Minister of Transport Sidick Mia has said government has signed a $1 billion deal with Brazil’s Vale for the construction and rehabilitation of a rail line that will transport 18 million tonnes of coal from Mozambique. Vale Logistics, a subsidiary of mining giant Vale, will build a new 138.5 km (86 mile) line from […]
If the construction industry in Malawi has to grow and contribute to the aims and objectives of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS), there was need that the players in the industry ensure high standards and quality, Transport and Public Infrastructure Minister, Sidik Mia has said. He was speaking when he officially opened the […]