Malawi Foreign Affairs minister George Chaponda has said the previous administration should have brought the Malawi, Tanzania Lake Malawi row to International Court of Justice (ICJ) instead of bringing it to a mediation process. Chaponda said this Sunday during Tiuzeni Zoona programme on Zodiak radio. “This is the best route the government should have taken. […]
Former Malawi national football team and Bullets FC coach Kinnah Phiri has disclosed that Tanzanian clubs are run more professional than Malawian clubs. Kinnah who landed a coaching job at a Tanzania top league side Mbeya City Council FC said he was impressed with structures and management at his new club. “Clubs in Tanzania are […]
The government of Tanzania has deported 12 Malawians – most of them youths under the age of 30 – who are since being detained in a removal detention camp while waiting for deportation, Malawi government officials have confirmed. The deportation comes a few days after Lilongwe wrote Dodoma protesting the latter’s newly published map that […]
Malawi government has for the second time formally protested to Tanzania over its decision to publish a new map before the two countries have resolved a dispute over the boundaries of Lake Nyasa/Malawi. The Joyce Banda-led administration first protested attempts by Tanzania to redraw the border and accused its neibhour of treating it in a […]
Chitipa District Commissioner, Grace Zione Chirwa finished 2015 calendar year in a style as she led a delegation which comprising district council sector heads, local NGOs representatives, councillors and members from business community in joining officials from Ileje District in Tanzania in a special tree planting exercise, Thursday , December 31. The exercise which took place at the bank of […]
I was writing this article in a very nice hotel outside the country when I had been at a conference. My Tanzanian counterparts did not have the trouble of waiting hours at airports, being fed in hotels like battery cage chicken and asked to fill in those conference evaluation forms the conference organisers circulate, asking […]
The peaceful conclusion of the recent tripartite elections in Tanzania, and the smooth transfer of power from former president Jakaya Kikwete to the incumbent John Magufuli, represents yet another milestone in Africa’s quest for the entrenchment of a democratic culture on the continent. The Tanzanian election was the fifth since the county restored multiparty democracy […]
Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima will travel to Dar-Es-Salaam to attend President-elect John Pombe Magufuli’s inauguration on Wednesday in the Tanzanian capital. Magufuli, a former chemistry teacher who celebrated his 56th birthday on Thursday as results were announced, ran on an anti-corruption platform, and secured a convincing victory over his closest rival, ex-prime minister Edward […]
Malawi’s calamitous 2018 World Cup Qualifying campaign suffered a big blow on when they lost 0-2 to Tanzania as they conceded two quick goals within a space of just five minutes in the first half during a match played in Dar-es-Salaam. Tanzania capitalised on poor defensive lapses in Malawi’s inexperienced and tactless side to record the […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has granted the Government of Tanzania an injunction against the burning of 2.6 tonnes of ivory smuggled across the border, arguing the horns would be used as evidence during prosecution against poaching suspects. However, presiding Judge Dingiswayo Madise has fined Tanzania K1 million for a late call against burning of […]
Malawi and Tanzania have daggers drawn, almost close at each other’s throats. As the politicians probably sweet-talked by global corporates continue to pull and shove for a part of a rich natural resource that has always been Lake Malawi up north of the Warm Heart of Africa, the man in Karonga and his colleague just […]
Blue Eagles F.C have been invited by a Tanzanian sports organizing firm Smart Sports General Suppliers to travel to that country and play two international friendly matches. According to a letter made available to Nyasa Times signed by Smart Sports General Suppliers Managing Director George Wakuganda, Eagles are expected to play against all time Tanzanian […]
Malawi national football team, the Flames, have been drawn in the same World Cup 2018 qualifying group as Tanzania’s Taifa Stars. The draw for the 2018 World Cup qualifying stage took place in St Petersburg host nation Russia on Saturday. Winners of Malawi and Tanzania will face Highest-ranked African team Algeria, who took eventual 2014 […]
A group of sawyers from Tanzania, popularly known as Swahili, on Monday afternoon poured petrol and torched 25 year-old Malawian Ken Banda at Mazamba Forest in Mzimba District following a quarrel over cooked beans, according The Nation newspaper report. Banda is battling for his life at Mzuzu Central hospital (MCH). Mzuzu Police Station deputy spokesperson […]
Eight former African presidents are expected to take part in a four-day regional conference on global peace leadership scheduled for Zanzibar later this month, according to a report in Tanzania’s IPP Media. The conference is expected to chart strategies aimed at reducing conflict, build social cohesion and promote ethical governance through moral and innovative leadership. […]
Outgoing Tanzanian High Commissioner to Malawi Patrick Tsere has commented on the issue of the Lake Malawi border wrangle between Malawi and Tanzania and assured Malawians that his country “will never go to war with Malawi” over the border issue. He was speaking at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre when he went to bid farewell to […]
Tanzania’s Taifa Stars came from behind to hold neighbours Malawi 1-1 in an international friendly match played in Dar es Salaam on Sunday afternoon. Winger Micium Mhone, returning to the Flames squad after a long absence, reportedly deflected in a shot to put the visitors ahead in the first half. Tanzania cancelled out matters in […]
Mediators in the ownership wrangle of Lake Malawi have proposed a resource-sharing agreement between Malawi and Tanzania governments. The two countries will discuss the proposal as the mediators believe that economic integration is the solution on the matter. The move was proposed by the two former heads of state meditating the dispute, former Mozambican president […]