Police in the northern city of Mzuzu have arrested 14 Tanzanian nationals on allegations that they were staying in Malawi illegally. Mzuzu Police Station Public Relations Officer Sergeant Maurice Chapola confirmed to Nyasa Times, saying Police rounded up the Tanzanians at Geisha Township in Mzuzu. “We believe these people were staying and working in the […]
President Joyce Banda on Thursday met leaders of all parties in Malawi at her official Kamuzu Palace in the Capital City, Lilongwe, hailing them for approaching national issues “with seriousness”. In her brief remarks before the meeting went into camera, the President said she had invited the leaders to Kamuzu Palace so that Government could brief […]
The Government of Malawi says it would continue negotiations with their Tanzanian counterparts on Lake Malawi since the current regime in Dodoma is ignorant of its claims that they own part of the lake. Lake Malawi is at the core of a border dispute between the two countries which has been reignited over prospects of […]
Youth and Society, an advocate for peace, justice and peoples’ rights has called upon the leadership and politicians of Malawi and Tanzania to refrain from making inflammatory and irresponsible statements that would frustrate the peaceful process of resolving the dispute. “We wish to express our growing dismay over the on-going lake dispute between Malawi and Tanzania specifically in view […]
I read Pastor Hastings Salanje’s post on the Lake Malawi dispute. Pastor Salanje as a man of God advises us to avoid shedding of blood by bowing down to Tanzania’s call of sharing it with them. He accurately cites such example as of Read Sea, Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea. He also points out the […]
I know that what am about to say it will make some people angry, but the truth must be told. After checking the map of these three countries , Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique who shares the waters of the lake called lake Malawi, I have come to understand that, we Malawians we must be wise […]
At the end of May 2013, the Tanzanian parliament was told that Tanzania would acquire six passenger ships, which would be deployed on Lakes Malawi (Lake Nyasa as it is known in Tanzania), Tanganyika and Victoria. The Tanzanian Minister for Transport Harrison Mwakyembe’s announcement was followed by a press statement from the Malawian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]
I read somewhere on the net written by some crazy American humor journalist that Abraham Lincoln once said, “In life, what counts is the size of a man’s heart, not the size of his disproportionate willie.” For those who do not know ‘willie’, perhaps you also believe babies are bought from hospitals; otherwise ‘willie’ is […]
Judging from history, territorial dispute is the worst thing that can ever develop between nations and states. It may be that easy to detect specific instances of territorial conflict but it is hard to stomach the geographical, political, and psychological havoc such conflicts cause. It is exactly this preceding statement that makes this author shudder […]
Netball Association of Malawi’s move to appoint Tanzania national team expatriate head coach Mary Waya has made it to be cautious on her role for Malawi Queens for Africa Netball Championship scheduled for June 24-29. Waya is on a two-month vacation and was included in the Malawi Queens coaching panel alongside Peace Chawinga Kalua, Collins Mhone, Sam […]
Preamble: Having watched with keen interest as the lake dispute unveils, it has been within my conscience and intellect that something needs to be done by the citizenry, as to move the authorities to do something before it is too late. Over the recent weeks, there have been reports that Malawians from the northern part […]
There are those people who do not understand that they do not understand that they will not understand because they can’t understand. And this does not need any Hetherwick Ntaba to explain it out or indeed one Nicholas Dausi to come and ‘jargonise’ the situation. Some people will remain adamant and very ‘in-understanding’. You may […]
Malawi government has protested against plans by Tanzania to deploy two passenger vessels on Lake Malawi (known in Tanzania as Lake Nyasa) . In a formal protest letter to Tanzania against the reports presented in their National Assembly that they want to deploy two passenger vessels on the lake, Lilongwe has said the development threaten mediation […]
Mzuzu University this week held a public lecture on Malawi and Tanzania border dispute where a Mzuzu based lawyer supported the former’s move to refer the matter to International Court of Justice (ICJ). The public lecture titled “Some thoughts on colonial boundaries: The case study of Malawi and Tanzania border dispute” was organized by the […]
Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe has told Dodoma’s Parliament that they have all kinds of evidence to ensure that they win the lake border row with Malawi if the mediators refer the case to International Court of Justice (ICJ). Malawi made its official submission in January 2013 in the Mozambican Capital Maputo to the African Forum […]
I may be Malawian and full of life, but am never a prophet of doom. However, it is starting to smell like Tanzania, our dear and long stood cousin-neighbor to the North-East, will end up reddening its once peaceful country if it continues to develop its greedy tendencies over resources that may never belong to […]
Despite the ongoing dispute between Malawi and Tanzania over Lake Malawi that sits on oil deposits Malawi’s Minister of Mining, John Bande, was last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania attending the Great Rift Valley Mining Summit. Over the last few months, the two countries have been loggerheads over Lake Malawi ownership after the Malawi […]
Amid a wide-spread looming scarcity of sugar in the country, the Tanzanian Government has impounded 28.5 tonnes of Malawi sugar that was reportedly smuggled into that country last year. Tanzania’s Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Adam Malima, told the Tanzania National Assembly in Dodoma, ==23 tonnes of sugar were impounded at Mbeya, […]