President Lazarus Chakwera has described his visit to Tanzania as strategic aimed at strengthening business ties between the two countries. Chakwera was speaking at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday when he was departing for the United Republic of Tanzania for a three day state visit. He said considering the nature of Tanzania being the […]
President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has gone to Tanzania for a three-day State visit on the back of un resolved boundary dispute on Lake Malawi but will visit the Malawi Cargo Centre, the port of Dar es Salaam and also inaugurate the Mbezi Luis Upcountry Bus Terminal. Speaking at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday morning […]
Government has been called upon to quickly come in and resolve problems truck drivers face in neighbouring Mozambique and Tanzania. The truck drivers say they face hurdles before loading essential commodities. “We are always sidelined, we are subjected to prolonged delays for nothing,” said one truck driver Yusuf Amin. This comes as members of the […]
Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan says Malawi has set an exemplary maturity of democracy for Africa and that President Lazarus Chakwera’s resolve to root out corruption is admirable. Speaking to journalists after attending President Chakwera’s inauguration ceremony at Kamuzu Barracks in Lilongwe, Suluhu Hassan hailed Chakwera’s resolve to fight corruption and submission to following […]
Immigration authorities and the police have rounded people who cross the border between Malawi and Tanzania illegally by using unchartered routes. This comes amid concern that latest cases of coronavirus are being imported from Tanzania. The authorities rounded up the illegal cross borderers at Songwe Border in Karonga amid enhanced security to arrest spread of […]
Minister of Health Jappie Mhango, has confirmed a new case of coronavirus in northern city of Mzuzu, bringing the total cases in Malawi to 37, including some recoveries and three deaths. He said new case has been confirmed by a laboratory at Mzuzu Central Hospital. “The person is a 40-year-old gentleman who returned from Mbeya, […]
Communities surrounding National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) depot in Mzuzu are living in fear. They say the Tanzanian truck drivers who are delivering fuel to the area have high chances to spread Covid-19 to the locals. The communities who threatened to take the law into their own hands if government fails to sort out […]
Officials from Nkhata Bay District Council on Saturday held bilateral talks with their counterparts from Nyasa District Council at Mbamba Bay in Tanzania. Nkhata Bay district commissioner (DC) Rodney Simwaka said the meeting’s aim was to establish a platform through which the two councils can share information on issues affecting their operations. “Good relationship is […]
Tanzania has recorded one death and two other people are sick with ebola, a situation which puts Malawi at risk of getting the deadly disease. World Health Organisation (WHO) has rebuked Tanzania for failing to provide information about the possible ebola virus infections. The WHO says it had learnt of one suspected fatal case in […]
Malawi car importers and other traders will no longer have to travel to Dar es Salaam to access their goods as the Tanzanian Government is making an initiative to improve Mbeya Cargo Dry Port to cut the distance short. Senior Customs Officer at Kasumulu Border, Majaliwa Ndukutu, revealed the initiative on the sidelines of a […]
Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has ended his two-day State visit to Malawi during which he held bilateral talks in Lilongwe and praised President Peter Mutharika, saying Mutharika had transformed Malawi. He cited the crop fields he had seen on his way from the airport as a sign of improvement Malawi must celebrate the transformational […]
Tanzania president John Magufuli flies out of Malawi this Thursday having failed to discuss Lake Malawi wrangle with President Peter Mutharika on his two-day State-visit. Political analysts and commentators are describing this as a lost opportunity. Tanzania and Malawi on Wednesday discussed and signed a wide range of issues including trade and culture but avoided […]
Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has expressed concern over slow implementation of trade agreements between Malawi and Tanzania saying it has impacted trade and investment between the two countries. He expressed the concern Wednesday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe when he held bilateral talks with Malawian counterpart President Arthur Peter Mutharika. Magufuli is on a […]
Visiting Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli on Wednesday visited and laid wreath at the statue of former president Bingu wa Mutharika at Parliament Building in Lilongwe. Magufuli, who is visiting Malawi for the first time since he became Tanzania’s president in 2015, arrived in the country earlier in the day through Kamuzu International Airport where […]
Tanzanian President John Magufuli will pay a two-day State visit to Malawi from April 24 to 25 ahead of the watershed Tripartite Elections in the southern African nation where the East African leader is revered for his anti-corruption measures and the slashing of unnecessary public expenses. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said in […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) presidential running mate Frank Tumpale Mwenifumbo stunned the jam-packed audience that attended the final presidential running mate debate organized by Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) at Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu on Tuesday when said that Malawi should consider allowing Tanzania to keep part of Lake Malawi to avert a possible “war” […]
Just as the old adage says the United Republic of Tanzania has shown it is a friend in need is a friend indeed by donating 200 metric tons of maize and a truck load of medical supplies on Friday to the people that have been affected by natural disaster caused by heavy rains in the […]
Malawi and Tanzania have launched the $829 million joint Songwe River Basin Commission in the Tanzanian border town of Keyla . The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water development, Joseph Mwanamveka officially launched the commission which will oversee the management of the project together with the Tanzanian Deputy Minister of Water, Jumaah Aweso. Mwanamvekha said […]