United Nations human rights experts are urging the international community to rapidly provide all necessary funding and assistance to the Government of Malawi and humanitarian actors in response to some of the worst flooding in the country in living memory. A statement issued from the United Nations Office in Geneva on Friday, the experts have […]
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have scaled up their support towards the government-led response to the disaster in Malawi, where heavy rains have led to massive floods, especially in the Southern region. The UN System is specially scaling up its support to affected populations who are desperate for safe water, food, medicines and […]
The Malawi’s UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo says corruption is perhaps the greatest obstacle to the realization of human rights and development in Malawi. Speaking during the commemoration of International Human Rights day on Wednesday, in the capital Lilongwe, Seppo said corruption acts as a brake on development, denying millions of people around the world the […]
The Malawi government in collaboration with the United Nations and other partners, including Non-Governmental Organisations launched a two year project aimed at building the resilience of vulnerable communities to recurrent climatic shocks and enhancing their productivity to achieve food and nutrition security. The launch took place on Monday at Lihaka Primary School in Phalombe district […]
The Government of Malawi with support from the United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Children Fund and the World Food Programme has introduced a joint UN Programme on Improving Access and Quality of Education for Girls in the country. Speaking in Mangochi on Thursday during a stakeholders meeting, Deputy Director for School Health and Nutrition […]
President Prof. Peter Mutharika says he has clinched foreign investment deals with various investors during his stay in New York, USA where he attended the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Mutharika disclosed this upon arrival at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe on Wednesday. He said the 69th UNGA had been a […]
Malawi government has asked former president Joyce Banda to consult the authorities on her external travels to avoid embarrassing the country, saying that her presence at the just ended United Nations General Assembly side meetings in US was an embarrassment to incumbent President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led administration. Banda attended […]
The Malawi leader Peter Mutharika left New York, United States of America (USA) back to Malawi on Sunday evening after describing his 14-day in America as successful. “It has been highly successful,” said Mutharika in his last interview to give while in New York. “We have managed to do almost everything we had set out.” […]
There are people flocking towards some New York hotel. They have banners: they can’t get past some line of defence. They must stop where their right permits them to. This is not a Wall Street crumble, nor is it a group of activists protesting against the touching down of some African dictator’s plane on American […]
With the deadline for implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) coming next year, the Malawi government is already looking ahead, Presidential Chief Economic Advisor, Collins Magalasi said on Monday in New York. Currently Malawi is mobilizing resources to be used for dealing with development goals where success was not registered. Magalasi said that President Peter […]
The DPP Government is dead broke, yet President Peter Mutharika has endorsed a 68-man (and women) delegation to accompany him to New York where he will be attending the 69th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, blowing more than MK400 million in the process. According to highly placed government sources at Capital Hill, […]
Malawi has been asked to take African leadership in driving the agenda against poverty through democratization, financial probity and peace facilitation. According to President Peter Mutharika, this is what Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki Moon, asked him to do during their meeting in New York on Thursday. In an interview, Mutharika […]
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday granted the first meeting to this year’s General Assembly to Malawi’s leader Peter Mutharika. From bookings from several world leaders to see him, the secretary general suspended his busy schedule on Thursday morning to host Mutharika first. In an interview, the Malawi leader expressed delight and gratitude […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Sunday left the country for New York to take part in session of UN General Assembly where he will address the General Assembly. It will a debut address to the UN general assembly for Mutharika as a Head of State but as Foreign Minister he addressed the general assembly 2011 […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Sunday is headed for the UN General Assembly to be held in New York, United States, a presidential spokesman has said. State House Press Secretary Frederick Ndala, the plane carrying President Mutharika is expected to take off from Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) at 2.00 pm in Lilongwe. UNGA is an […]
United Nations (UN) delegation on Friday concluded the two day visit in Malawi, where among other things the officials wanted to check on the progress regarding the fulfillment of the recommendations made during the 111th Geniva session, with a vociferous call to Malawi Government against in action. A member of Un Special Committee on Civil and […]
United Nations (UN) women in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and Children’s Affairs are calling for girls and women from Dedza who are willing to serve as role models for the district. According to Dedza South East Constituency Juliana Lunguzi the call has been made due to poor indicators in education completion […]
Malawi has been accused by the United Nations human rights experts of failing to protect civil and political rights. The 18 independent expert of the U.N. Human Rights Committee, a group that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on Thursday announced that Malawi has for the first time since it […]