Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday hosted Sir Donald Charles McKinnon, Special Envoy for the Prime Minister of New Zealand in the Capital, Lilongwe where New Zealand’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council was the main agenda issue. McKinnon, who was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008, […]
Malawi’s new envoy to the United Nations (UN), Charles P. Msosa on Monday presented his Letters of Credence to the Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, at the UN headquarters, New York. According to a news statement issued by Malawi mission at the UN, Ban Ki-moon paid homage to Malawi President Joyce Banda for the […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday dismissed Malawi’s excuse that it failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar El Bashir because he enjoyed the immunity of a foreign head of state. The Court said a sitting head of state whose country was not a signatory of the Rome Statute did not enjoy any form of immunity […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Richard Dictus has said the responsibility of finding solutions lies with the Malawi people themselves and that the UN is only facilitating dialogue between the government of Malawi and civil society organizations in the midst of the country’s economic challenges. Addressing a news conference in […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times United Nations representative involved in the dialogue between government and civil society organizations is Joao Honwana, director of the Africa I Division (Southern and Eastern Africa) of the UN Department of Political Affairs, Nyasa Times has learnt. Malawi UN mission in United States disclosed the identity to Nyasa Times after […]
By Judith Moyo, Nyasa Times The Youth Association for Democracy (YADEMA) has faulted civil society organizations for canceling the August 17 anti government vigil. YADEMA in a statement issued by its interim chairperson, Lilongwe-based lawyer Wapona Kitta says the cancellation has taken away the legitimate expectation which was created in its membership that they would […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times Barely 24 hours to go, civil society organisations in Malawi have announced the call off of their much-anticipated and widely publicised August 17 national vigils. Rodgers Newa, a spokesman for the organizers, told reporters Tuesday that protests were being postponed indefinitely because of a court injunction issued to stop them […]