Vice President Khumbo Kachali on Friday visited the Malawi Cargo Centre (MCC) at port of Dar es Salaam Friday to appreciate how it carries out its functions. Malawi Cargo Centre was opened 20 years ago following the closure of Beira and Nacala routes due to civil war in Mozambique in the 1980s. It was then […]
Members of clergy from different dominations under the Pastors Fraternal of Chilumba in Karonga on Wednesday observed a day of prayer and fasting where among other things they prayed for peaceful solution to the ongoing border row between Malawi and its Northern neighbor Tanzania over the owner ship of the lake Malawi. Karonga is Malawi’s […]
Opposition parties in the country have agreed to work with Government on Malawi/ Tanzania boarder dispute, saying that government is handling the issue with maturity. Leader of Opposition in the house, John Tembo said as opposition they will not allow even a small portion of Malawi to be taken by other countries. “This issue was […]
President Joyce Banda maintains that the entire Lake Malawi belongs to Malawians as stipulated in the information and data they have retrieved and has substantial and legal signatures by the colonial masters. “Since I was born, the information I got from my ancestors was that Lake Malawi belongs to Malawi. And indeed Lake Malawi belongs […]
Agree to disagree! Malawi and Tanzania on Saturday confirmed talks collapsed on the long-running border dispute over Lake Malawi, thought to sit over rich oil and gas reserves, on matters of principle. Malawi claims sovereignty over the entirety of Lake Malawi, Africa’s third-largest lake, while Tanzania says it is entitled to 50 percent of it. Lake […]
Tanzania Amateur Netball Association, CHANETA has appointed Malawi’s most celebrated and award winning netball player, Mary Waya as the new head coach to train the national team, Taifa Queens for one year. CHANETA Acting Secretary General, Rose Mkisi said that they have signed a one-year deal with the coach and she has already undertaken his […]
Leaders of Malawi’s biggest Christian church movement, the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), have voiced their official stand on current “contemporary issues” affecting Malawi. In a statement issued Thursday entitled: ‘Our Nation and Contemporary Issues Affecting Our Lives’, the clergy have tackled on issue of homosexuality, the looming hunger, the Lake Malawi border dispute with neighboring Tanzania, […]
Traditional and religious leaders in the southern Lower Shire Valley have demanded explanation from government on what it is doing to make neighbouring Tanzania pay over its claims over Lake Malawi. Malawi and Tanzania currently have a dispute over ownership of Lake Malawi. Tanzania calls the lake, Lake Nyasa, while Malawians call it Lake Malawi. Residents of […]
Malawi quasi religious organisation has asked government to take board stand on the Lake Malawi ownership wrangle and tell Tanzania ‘hands-off’. The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) Publicity Secretary, Maurice Munthali told journalists during two-day second all inclusive conference the institution organised in Blantyre, that government should not handle the issue with kids gloves but take a […]
People of Misuku in Chitipa District have been cautioned against selling their precious pine trees to foreigners from neighbouring Tanzania who suddenly have found Misuku area as a source of cheap timber which they smuggle out of the country. District Commissioner for Chitipa, Michael Chimbalanga, warned people a few days ago amidst reports that some […]
Let us start today with a summary of John Steinbeick’s novel, The Pearl. Kino, a young, strong, poor pearl diver, lives in a small town, La Paz, with his wife Juana, and his baby son, Coyotito. Kino discovers an enormous pearl while out diving with Juana and he is ready to sell it for a lot […]
The Tanzanian government has said the current move it has taken of reclaiming the portion of Lake Malawi is not taking advantage that Malawi has a female president, Mrs Joyce Banda Speaking during the Day Break Malawi program on Capital Radio on Wednesday, Tanzanian High Commissioner to Malawi, Patrick Tsere said this issue is not […]
Police in the border district of Karonga on Sunday arrested a Tanzanian national for attempting to illegally export 1200 bags of maize to Tanzania without proper documents. The maize was loaded on two Tanzanian tracks registration numbers T696ASS/T669AUA and T799AUS/T236AUU. The suspect, 44-year-old man Patrick Pasolo Mwinuka was nabbed at Iponga road block after lying […]
Malawi government has asked United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to mediate the decades-long border dispute with Tanzanian over Lake Malawi believed to have oil deposits.. In the standoff Tanzania is claiming half of the Lake which is called Lake Nyasa in Tanzania. But Malawi claims the entire Lake basing on 1890 Anglo-German treaty […]
Delayed action on crucial decisions is what we are experiencing in Malawi. For instance, the dispute between Malawi and Tanzania over Lake Malawi, when the rumour started in the media that Tanzania was claiming a part of our lake, we should have alerted the international community immediately, and not wait for the dialogue to fail. […]
Tanzania on Saturday denied that they have deployed military vessels on the Lake Malawi (known in Tanzania as Lake Nyasa) and also dismissed its security organs were harassing Malawian fishermen. Malawi President Joyce Banda announced this week that her government would take Tanzania to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the border dispute in […]
Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Ali Hassan Mwinyi who is currently in the country to attend the National Islamic Ijitima prayers visited Mai Halima Girls Secondary School at Chisitu in Mulanje accompanied by his wife, Mama Hadja Mwinyi. Addressing students, Mwinyi encouraged them to work hard in their studies adding that he was glad […]
Preamble: It’s just been reported that due to persisting war-mongering by neighbouring Tanzania despite high level assurance that contact and dialogue would prevail, Malawi has opted out of further talks and will now seek immediate International Court of Justice (ICJ) intervention in the matter. In this write-up, the authors opine that Tanzania’s commitment to dialogue on the […]