Paramount Chief Kawinga, who is on a tour of all Yao Chiefs areas to appreciate the challenges young girls have faced as a result of closure of schools following the Covid-19 pandemic, said he is shocked that his jurisdiction alone has reported 400 teen pregnancies. Paramount Kawinga said this at Mlozi Primary School after touring Senior […]
Yao Paramount Chief Kawinga has described Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government as the only government that has recognized Yao Chiefs in the country by elevating them to higher ranks in the past five years. He made the remarks Saturday in Mangochi when government elevated four Senior Group Village Heads, namely Mapira, Mambo, Nkata and […]
Political observers have noted that there is no person from Yao tribe as full ministers in the new 24-member cabinet in which President Peter Mutharika has included five women – two ministers and three deputies – with 15 new faces comprising 10 full ministers and five deputies. The new cabinet has 18 full ministers and […]
The Global Interaction, through the Baptist Convention of Malawi, has unveiled the first ever English-Ciyawo Dictionary. The English-Ciyawo dictionary launch follows a ten-year task of compiling 3 000 words with 10 Malawian men and women behind the job under the supervision of Australian Senior Editor, Dr. Ian Dicks, of the Baptist Convention of Malawi which […]
Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Bright Msaka on Tuesday launched the first ever Yao book on religion, culture and moral values entitled Misyungu Jakwiganya Lunda ni Ndamo Syambone. The 112-page book is a result of a three-year task that involved Yao chiefs in the eastern region and western Mozambique and Director of New Hope […]
Malawi is never short of exciting political controversy. One day, newspapers are reporting that football star Fischer ‘Anong’a’ Kondowe has joined MCP. The next day, Kondowe, who aspires to contest for Blantyre City South parliamentary seat, is back in the news refuting his earlier flirtations with MCP. Exciting news, isn’t it? Recently, there was more […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development , Kondwani Nankhumwa has fuelled the the reported expansion drive of the Lhomwe ethnic grouping by bulldozing Traditional Authorities Chamba and Mlomba of Machinga who refused to cede part of their territories, and pressed Yao Paramount Chief Kawinga where he has elevated group village heads Nyumwanyumwa and Saidi […]
The influential Malawi News has criticized the move by Local Government and Rural Development Ministry descending on two chiefs in Machinga, a predominantly Yao district, with a mission to convince them to sign off part of their territory to accommodate the expansion for living space of the Lhomwe tribe to which President Peter Mutharika belongs […]
President Peter Mutharika on Saturday installed Maxwell Blaidon Mataka as Paramount Chief Kawinga of the Yao Tribe in Machinga. The coronation ceremony took place on Saturday at Nanyumbu in Machinga. It was attended by among others former president Bakili Muluzi who dressed in traditional Yao regalia. Kawinga had pu on a necklace made from claws of […]
Acting president for erstwhile ruling Peoples Party (PP) Uladi Mussa has called on Malawians to live harmoniously despite their religious differences as first-ever Yao translated Quraan is launched in the country. Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) and Iftaa in Ulama Council of Malawi- a grouping of Muslim Sheikhs- on Saturday launched the Yao translated Quraan […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have rushed to a remote village where a nine year old boy has died in a Yao initiation camp called Jando in the district. Police spokesperson in Kasungu Margret Mzingwitsa confirmed the death of Julius Sayineti on Tuesday. “We don’t know the cause of the death but a team of police […]
President Joyce Banda has advised all Yao Chiefs spread around Malawi to hold a consultative meeting to harmonise their history regarding their origins and spread. Banda who is on record as calling on her Yao tribesmen to consider setting up their own heritage grouping as a way of preserving their culture., noted on Sunday that […]
Yao tribesmen are setting up a heritage grouping as a way of preserving their culture, Nyasa Times understands. The group, which will be similar to what former Malawi president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, formed – Mulhako wa Alhomwe – will be called Chiwanja cha Ayao. Quadria Muslim Association chairman Alhaj Likonde is chairman of the […]
President Joyce Banda Wednesday advised traditional leaders in the country to look forward to the forthcoming year with renewed energy and focus on the nation’s prosperity. President Banda was speaking at Chikoko Bay State Lodge, Monkey Bay in Mangochi when she hosted Yao Chiefs drawn from nine districts of Mangochi, Machinga, Dedza, Blantyre, Zomba, Balaka, […]
Exactly two weeks after she called on her clan’s leaders to revive their heritage and renew their pride, Malawi President Joyce Banda on Sunday met the Yao chiefs where she reiterated her appeal. President Banda, a Yao herself, first made the appeal at Hora Mountain in Mzimba District when she presided over this year’s uMthetho […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Saturday called on her clan’s leaders to consider setting up their own heritage group as a way of preserving their culture. The President, who is a Yao by tribe, was speaking Saturday at Hora Mountain in Mzimba district during the annual uMthetho Cultural Festival for the Ngoni people. While referring […]