Malawi’s electronic media should brace for more competition following the awarding of broadcasting licences to four TV stations and four radio stations by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The regulator called for applications of TV and radio license application in 2009. Macra director general Charles Nsaliwa said the four television stations have out-bidden fellow […]
Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) combed, screened, and searched all its rank and file and found out that the only capable person to lead the party in 2014 elections is Professor Peter Mutharika, the party’s secretary general Wakuda Kamanga has said. Kamanga disclosed this to Zodiak radio during Tiuzeni Zoona program aired on Sunday. […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by intimidation of the private Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) on Sunday and Monday by masked assailants as protests were planned for Wednesday in the capital. Civil society groups under an umbrella organization called the Malawi Human Rights Consultative Committee plan to march nationwide in protest of several issues—including […]