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Teen jailed for Cop wounding
2007-07-04 00:00:00 A court in Kasungu, central Malawi has sentenced three teenagers to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for robbing a police officer of his K3 500 and a cell phone. According to reports, the three, Shaibu Adam, Charles Pinto and Joseph Ganizani attacked the police officer Constable George Akidu of ...
Tobacco sales end this Friday
2007-07-04 00:00:00 Malawi’s low production of burley tobacco has forced the auction floors to close sales much earlier than is usually the case, officials have confirmed to Nyasa Times. Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) General Manager Dr Godfrey Chapola confirmed in an interview Frida y will be the last day of sales for burley ... More About: Sales
House adjourns prematurely
2007-07-02 00:00:00 Malawi Speaker of Parliament, Louis Chimango was forced to adjourn the proceeding of the National Assembly after the chamber had no electrical power and described the august House to be in “disorder”. Power blackout suspiciously came when the tempers flared after leader of opposition, John Tembo moved a motion that ... More About: Ouse , Premature , Mature
Mutharika bribes Speaker
2007-07-02 00:00:00 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika met and bribed Speaker of the National Assembly, Thursday last week, to save his minority government; by delaying implementation of section 65 of the constitution, which would see over 70 parliamentarians being expelled for ditching their parties by joining others, highly placed sources have revealed. ... More About: Peak , Hari
Malawian among editors to debate with African leaders
2007-07-02 00:00:00 Malawian newspaper editor, Rob Jamieson is among African editors to hold a debate with selected Presidents attending the 9th ordinary summit of the AU which opened in Accra, Ghana, Sunday. The editors meeting with Presidents was first scheduled for Sunday but it has been deferred to Tuesday after the leaders ... More About: Editors , Debate , Leaders , Lead
Approaching tipping point of Malawi politics
2007-07-02 00:00:00 It seems Malawi politics is about to reach the tipping point. Somebody is going to upset the applecart. Looks like we're going to tip the political boat over the one the Bishops and Public Affairs Committee (PAC) wants to drown us all in. Since President Bingu wa Mutharika took over ... More About: Politics , Tipping Point , Point , Roach
DPP accused of nepotism
2007-07-02 00:00:00 Member of Parliament for Mzimba West Loveness Gondwe has accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of nepotism following allegations that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s inner circle is sidelining the finance guru from their party activities. Gondwe made a remark in the National Assembly without being given the floor soon after ... More About: Accu
Need for radical departure from business as usual
2007-07-01 00:00:00 Life has a unique way of unleashing powerful messages and lessons to all of us individually and collectively. It is important for us to develop perceptive ears and eyes for life’s truths and realities. Unfortunately when life pushes and shoves you, instead of listening, learning and responding positively, many of ... More About: Business , Business As Usual , Departure , Radical , Sine
Thumbs up DPP, but…
2007-07-01 00:00:00 The macro economic indicators, international appraisals, local good will messages, general public comments on the Government of Malawi’s performance in the last 36 months in general and specifically the last fiscal year can not go without my comments. The 2007 budget statement by Goodall Gondwe has brought very exceptional information ... More About: Thumb , Thumbs Up
Mutharika fails to attend AU Summit
2007-07-01 00:00:00 Ill health and political pressure has forced Malawi President, Bingu wa Mutharika, to fail to attend African Union Heads of States and government's summit currently underway in Accra, Ghana where the creation of the United States of Africa is high on agenda, sources have said. Mutharika the widower, has been ... More About: Summit , Hari
African Passport' unveiled at AU Summit
2007-07-01 00:00:00 A symbolic Pan-African passport has been unveiled by a number of civil society organisations at the fringes of the 9th African Union Summit , highlighting the need to speed up continental integration. The passport was inspired by a number of factors, including the promotion of free movement of goods and people ... More About: Spor , Veil , Passport
Of land tenure and development (Part II)
2007-07-01 00:00:00 In the first series, I justified the need to value land tenure issues in development discourse. In this part, I will cover some of the possible weakness of approaches by governments and their development partners to address land tenure issues to achieve sustainable development. It is even important that am ... More About: Development , Land , Part , Develop
Proclaim truth—Catholic priests urge Bishops
2007-06-30 00:00:00 A group of church leaders called Clergymen for Peace and Justice (CFPJ) have written a protest letter to Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) that the bishops are “out of touch” with issues of social justice. The letter sourced by Nyasa Times comes in the wake of the bishops’ ... More About: Truth , Bishops , Catholic , Cath , Shops
Malawian defender plays for Canada
2007-06-30 00:00:00 A Malawian-born soccer player in the Canada national soccer squad and has been heralded by his coach as one of the great players to have emerged from the African continent. Tamandani Wazayo Phillip Nsaliwa, 19, based in German is one of the defenders for the Canadian squad and continues to ... More About: Plays , Defender , Ender , Alaw
Ethel Mutharika Memorial Fund established
2007-06-29 00:00:00 President Mutharika said today (Thursday) he has set up Ethel Mutharika Memo rial Fund in honour of the country’s departed First Lady Ethel Zauya Nyoni. In his state address earlier today marking the end of a thirty days mourning period, Mutharika thanked all Malawians for moral, material and spiritual support rendered ... More About: Rial , Hari
Court to rule July 4 on Speaker's injunction
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Malawi High Court in Lilongwe has said it will make its ruling on Wednesday July 4 on an application by the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Dr Nga Mtafu to be party to the injunction obtained June 28 by Deputy Minister of People with Disabilities and Elderly Yunus Mussa and ... More About: Peak , Rule , Junction
Malawi 'doomed' by literacy shortfall
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Tapala Makologanya, a peasant farmer in rural Malawi , recounts her humiliation on being asked for her thumbprint as she opened up a bank account. "I was so embarrassed as everybody who saw me could tell I am illiterate. It's such a shameful thing." The 36-year-old from the central Chiradzulu region ... More About: Literacy , Short , Tera , Fall
Unyolo will be held responsible - Kaliati
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Government has picked on the outgoing Chief Justice of the High and Supreme Court of Appeal Leonard Unyolo claiming he would be held accountable for any mayhem resulting from his ruling on Section 65. The threat comes barely a few days after President Bingu wa Mutharika accused Unyolo of making ... More About: Kali , Held
Murder suspects plead with government
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Murder suspects in Malawi have asked government to seriously consider hastening their cases or release them on bail as they await for the cases to start. The suspects made the call at Kasungu Prison when the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Symon Vuwa Kaunda visited the prison. ... More About: Murder , Government , Suspects , Lead , Suspect
Uladi Mussa registers party
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Malavi People’s party (MPP) led by former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and ex-agriculture minister Uladi Mussa today (Friday) is celebrating the registration of the party after a series of rejects by the office of the registrar of political parties. Speaking in a telephone interview from Lilongwe parliamentary buildings, the youthful ... More About: Register , Regis
Govt obtains injunction against Speaker
2007-06-28 00:00:00 President Bingu wa Mutharika and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) through Yunus Mussa has obtained an injunction against the Speaker of the National Assembly restraining him from implementing Section 65, sources have revealed. Mussa went to parliament on a United Democratic Front (UDF) party ticket and joined the DPP as Deputy Minister ... More About: Peak , Junction , Govt
IATA extends e-ticket deadline
2007-06-28 00:00:00 IATA is giving members another five months to eliminate paper tickets, but several small carriers are concerned there still will not be enough time to put in place interline e-ticketing (IET) agreements. During its annual general meeting in early June, IATA agreed to extend its e-ticketing deadline from 31 December 2007 ... More About: Deadline , Line , Ends , Ticket , Tick
Govt gets 1 month budget advance
2007-06-28 00:00:00 The Business Committee of the National Assembly meeting in Lilongwe Wednesday has frantically told government there can be no budget presentation on June 29 ahead of Section 65 implementation and rebuffed government request for a four months budget appropriation, instead got a one month advance, sources have revealed. Minister of ... More About: Budget , Month , Govt , Mont , Vance
Mutharika consults on state of emergency
2007-06-28 00:00:00 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika today (Wednesday) was busy consulting his legal advisors exploring the constitutional powers particularly querying if he has powers to declare a state of emergency and dissolving parliament, a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) executive council has confided in Nyasa Times. The legal team included Justice and ... More About: State , Stat , Cons , Merge , Emergency
South African illegal immigrant convicted
2007-06-28 00:00:00 Abraham Hassam, a South African national who illegally entered Malawi a few weeks ago has today (Wednesday) survived a jail term after the Mzuzu Magistrate Court sentenced him to 14 months imprisonment with hard labour. Hassam was arrested last week alongside 19 Tanzanians and 13 Indians after the police and ... More About: South African , Grant , Illegal
Old computers find new life in Malawi
2007-06-27 00:00:00 The Taipei City Government has found a unique, if faraway, place to donate its old computers -- the southern African country of Malawi . The computers were originally used in the city government's department of labour. Now 162 of them are on their way to Malawi, where they will be reserved for use ... More About: Life , Computers , Find , New Life
Malawi cabinet closer to collapse
2007-06-27 00:00:00 Malawi’s parliament set the wheels in motion yesterday to sack dozens of defecting lawmakers, a move set to trigger the collapse of President Bingu wa Mutharika’s minority government. A senior parliamentary official said summonses had been sent to more than 50 members of the 193-strong parliament, ordering them to answer petitions ... More About: Collapse , Malawi , Closer , Cabinet , Coll
Bell gongs for those who crossed the floor
2007-06-27 00:00:00 I read with great interest the article on Nyasa Times that talked about the mass legal consultations by those affected by the Section 65 re-affirmation. Where were they all this time to be panicking now? Didn’t they realize that by crossing the floor they had jeopardised their chances to be ... More About: Bell , Gong , Crosse , Ross , Floor
Malawi airspace safe- minister
2007-06-27 00:00:00 Malawi's airspace is very protected and reliable despite the two plane crashes within a period of three months, government has told Nyasa Times. Speaking in an interview, Minister of Transport, Public Works and Housing Henry Mussa assured foreign tourists the two light planes, which crashed, recently were pure accidents that ... More About: Malawi , Safe , Alaw , Mala
Mzuzu City, chiefs clash over land
More articles from this author:2007-06-27 00:00:00 A heated wrangle has ensued between traditional leaders and authorities of Mzuzu City Assembly in northern Malawi over ownership of land, Nyasa Times has learnt. It has been discovered that despite government's nullification of traditional chiefs' powers over land in urban areas, certain leaders still cling to the land, a ... More About: Land , Lash , Chiefs , Clash 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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