President Bingu wa Mutharika failed to give a comprehensive answer on the diplomatic stand-off between Malawi and Zambia arising from a 2007 deportation of Zambia’s President Michael Sata when he was opposition leader then. “I had expected that President Sata would come to attend the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Summit in Australia where […]
It is Kafkaesque! Recently the Malawi Government explained it was ‘reversing’ its deportations of former British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, and that of new Zambian President Michael Sata. Sata was deported in 2007, before he became President of Zambia, when he entered Malawi to visit ex-President Bakili Muluzi. Government does not explain why it removed […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been praised for the recent decisions that he has been making with a motive to bring back the southern African country from the brink of total collapse or take the Zimbabwe way. Mutharika has in the last few months come under heavy attack from diplomats, international organizations and Malawians […]
Things are getting worse for embattled Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika as his ‘relationship’ with the new Zambian president Michael Sata continues to get strained by the day. The latest being the eviction of Malawi’s envoy from the Zambian premises in Dar –es- Salaam after the Zambian government hiked rent by 200 percent. According to […]
Zambia’s former First Lady and wife to defeated former president Rupiah Bwezani Banda is being accused by her country of siphoning billions of money and invested in Malawi. The former First Lady, Thandiwe Banda who is alleged to be a multi billionaire is accused of hugely acquiring and owning major properties ranging from houses, classy […]
Foreign Affairs Minister, Professor Peter Mutharika (PM), says he has “opened the lines” of official communication with neighbouring Zambia and Mozambique in a bid to mend diplomatic fences Malawi wedged between Tanzania, Zambia, аnd Mozambique, hаѕ bееn іn a number of diplomatic disputes іn recent years, ranging from to relations with former colonial master Britain, […]
Two of Malawi’s leading Human Rights organisations, Centre for Human Rights Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of the People (CEDEP) are demanding that President Bingu wa Mutharika and his government must put in place political reforms that will be in line with good governance, respect for the rule of law, freedom of expression and […]
COMMENTARY: Two reports have freely been circulating on the Internet and social forums in the last couple of days namely that State Vice President, Right Honourable Joyce Banda, is seeking asylum in Zambia; and Joyce Banda would be arrested for treason by Malawian authorities for attending celebrations marking the independence of the Republic of Zambia […]
Malawian Vice President Joyce Banda has arrived in the country from Zambia where she went on a “private visit”. Vice President Banda arrived through Chileka airport on Thursday amidst rumours that she was seeking sanctuary in Zambia following reports that Malawi government wanted her arrested. But Banda, who said she went to Zambia in her […]
Special Commentary : In the last few days, Malawi and world at large have seen a new side of PresidentBingu wa Mutharika. They have witnessed a contrite Professor Mutharika. In one day, the government under his direction sent not one, but two apologies: 1. to the United Kingdom for the unfortunate deportation of High Commissioner […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda will on Thursday return from Zambia where she went to attend independence celebrations at the invitation of President Michael Sata, effectively putting to rest rumours that she was seeking asylum in the country. Rumours were rife that Banda failed to return Wednesday because there was a plot by government to […]
Malawi’s private Joy TV says it will register in Zambia as a limited liability company in that country and will beam to Southern Africa without interfering with any frequency dismissing claims by Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) that it will be “illegal.” Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi told The Nation newspaper and Capital Radio’s Daybreak Malawi that […]
A Lilongwe based media expert has warned that Joy Television broadcasting from Zambia will be dangerous to President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his administration than leaving the TV station to broadcast in Malawi. His comments follow an announcement that newly elected Zambian President Micheal Sata has given a green light to Joy Television, which has […]
Zambia President Micheal Chilufya Sata has shunned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika at his country’s 47th independence celebrations but extended his invitation to vice president Joyce Banda and former president Bakili Muluzi. The 47th independence celebrations for Zambia will be held on Monday October 24 in Lusaka and will be Sata’s maiden investiture ceremony as head of […]
Revelations have emerged that following a raging diplomatic row between Malawi and Zambia, which saw newly elected Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata boycotting the 15th COMESA Heads of State Summit in Lilongwe over the weekend, his Vice Guy Scott was denied the opportunity to make a speech at the event. President Sata did not attend […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is adamant that he has not issued an apology to Britain for the deportation of its envoy but has only withdrawn the expulsion status. Mutharika, speaking through his spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba, said similarly he has also not apologised to Zambia President Micheal Sata but only revoked a four-year-old deportation order […]
Ex-president Bakili Muluzi’s Joy TV which was stopped by Malawi authorities on its inception has been permitted to establish their station in Zambia’s Eastern Province, according to President Micheal Sata. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) denied Joy television broadcasts in 2007, when it had already started beaming. But son to former president Muluzi, Atupele, requested […]
Malawi government has announced that deported British High Commissioner, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet and Zambia’s new President Michael Sata are no longer persona non grata and that they are welcomed in the country. The announcement was made by office of the president and cabinet secretary Bright Msaka through state broadcaster MBC on Friday. Msaka said the two […]