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Malawi’s Ruling Party Wants Parliament Speaker to Resign
2007-06-25 00:00:00 In Malawi , the ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) is calling on the speaker of the national assembly and his deputy to resign. This comes after a recent court ruling gave the speaker the mandate to declare vacant seats of parliamentarians who have crossed over to join other political parties. The ... More About: Speaker , Resign , Liam
Mutharika embroidered in illegal appointment
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s recent appointment, Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo, has been described illegal and that it violates the constitutional provisions, a human rights organisation has said. Undule Mwakasungula, executive director of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation said during a media briefing in the commercial city Blantyre accused ... More About: Illegal , Hari
Condoning corruption for political expediency
2007-06-25 00:00:00 There was an avalanche of comments from valued readers when the Dubai Corruption story about The Almighty and all Powerful Patricia Kaliati and her entourage appeared on Nyasa Times Online news website. Except for one from a DPP loyalist Yona M. Mvula, more than forty comments clamored for the beleaguered ... More About: Political , Poli , Politic
COMESA urges “maize without boarders”
2007-06-25 00:00:00 The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has urged member states to allow free movement of maize by implementing the “maize without borders” concept to ensure food security and promote trade in the region. “As a staple food crop in a number of COMESA countries, the unimpeded ... More About: Mesa , Urge
Of land tenure and development (Part I)
2007-06-25 00:00:00 The article aims to bring political and policy issues on land tenure and its link to development discourses. In the first series, the article justifies the need to understand land tenure issues in development. The second part shall cover the weakness of approaches by governments and their development partners to ... More About: Development , Land , Part , Develop
Govt backtracks on Munlo
2007-06-24 00:00:00 Shortly after losing a landmark ruling on a constitutional provision in the Supreme Court of Appeal, President Bingu wa Mutharika repeated his accusation that the judges are corrupt and showed his eagerness to retool the benches by appointing a former one party-rule Justice Minister and Attorney General Lovemore Munlo as ... More About: Trac , Govt
DPP want Speaker expelled
2007-06-23 00:00:00 In a dramatic twist of events, ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Louis Chimango asking him to declare his parliamentary seat vacant first before invoking powers bestowed on him by Section 65 on other parliamentarians. The Speaker is next week expected to declare over 60 seats ... More About: Peak , Expelled
Drilling starts at Kanyika uranium project
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Australian miner Globe Uranium has started drilling work in the Kanyika area, in central Malawi, as part of its uranium exploration programme in the area. Globe Uranium MD Mark Sumich says the company has retained international contractor Major Drill ing to undertake the drilling exercise, the objective of which is ... More About: Project , Rani
Girls arrested over Satanism
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Police in Mzuzu have arrested two girls for converting a 14 year-old student to satanic cult. Mzuzu Police spokesman, Edward Longwe told local radio; a girl whose name he did not name was approached by the girls to join them in January. According to police, the girl confessed that she ... More About: Girls , Arrested , Satanism , Este
Police teargas villagers in Ntcheu
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Malawi Poli ce today (Thursday) fired teargas canisters to disperse scores of villages in Ntcheu who had been on unloading a heavy goods vehicle loaded with various foodstuffs when it caught fire, eye witnesses have told Nyasa Times. The teargas were fired after villagers resisted requests to stop unloading the truck ... More About: Lager , Ice T , Villa
Christian universities defy govt on graduation
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Two of Malawi's Christian universities - the Univ ersity of Livingstonia and Malawi Adventist University - are to go ahead with the graduation of their first intake of students despite the fact that the Malawi government has not accredited the institutions. "All I can say is we are hopeful that before June ends ... More About: Graduation , Adua , Govt
Trio discuss Malawi President’s health
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Three top Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) executive council officials have secretly discussed the President Bingu wa Mutharika’s health following news that he is to fly to overseas for treatment on a life-threatening prostate cancer, sources have told Nyasa Times. President Mutharika is set to seek medical attention soon after the ... More About: Health , Malawi , Trio , Disc
Mutharika recuperates at Chikoko Bay
2007-06-22 00:00:00 President Bingu wa Mutharika yesterday (Thursday) flew to Chikoko Bay State Lodge under physician’s advice to recuperate, it has been learnt. Mutharika who has relocated to Sanjika Palace from the opulent Persian Castle 300 bed-roomed New State House in Lilongwe, left by helicopter to Chikoko Bay after developing high blood ... More About: Rates , Rate , Hari
Malawi play Namibia on Independence Day
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Despite having no chance of qualifying in the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) finals, Malawi national football team "Flames" will play a strength-testing match against the Namibia n national team "Brave Warriors" before meeting Zimbabwe in what would be a formality Group 12 last match. The Flames will play Brave Warriors ... More About: Play , Independence , Independence Day
Enhanced forest conservation and biogas technologies in Malawi
2007-06-22 00:00:00 The threat of climate change or global warming and its catastrophic impact on the global economy are real. Climate change is emerging as the most important global development challenge of our time and is likely to have far-reaching effects on all aspects of the world's environment, economy and society. If ... More About: Conservation , Technologies , Malawi , Forest , Cons
Journalists go to Zimbabwe for training
2007-06-22 00:00:00 President Bingu wa Mutharika is sending a contingent of journalists from three state media organisations and his daughter's newspaper for training shortly in Zimbabwe on how to cover elections, documents from State House reveal. A letter written by State House Press Officer addressed to the Zimbabwe High Commissioner marked attention ... More About: Training , Journalist , Journalists , TRAI
AfDB Group's Field Office Opens for Business
2007-06-21 00:00:00 The African Development Bank Group 's Malawi Field Office (MWFO) is open for business following the presentation of letters of accreditation by the Resident Representative, Mr. Frank Kufakwandi, to the country's foreign affairs minister, Hon Joyce Banda, on Tuesday in Lilongwe. Mr. Kufakwandi informed the minister about the Bank's appreciation of ... More About: Business , Sine
Nyika-Vwaza tourism concession extended
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Ministry of Tourism ’s Department of Parks and Wildlife has extended the Nyika- Vwaza Tourism Concession run by Nyika Safari Company Limited by five months while it evaluates the bids submitted in a re-advertisement which closes on June 22 at 14:00 hours. Speaking in an interview with Nyasa Times, an executive ... More About: Once , Extended
Malawi to export chicks to Rwanda
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Malawi poultry companies will soon start exporting fast growing chicks and finished products to Rwanda to avert the problem of chicken scarcity on the market, local media have reported. The government has also cleared private investors to start importing poultry and its products from Malawi. The media reports also indicate ... More About: Malawi , Export , Wand , Chicks
Attorney General under fire
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Attorney Gene ral (AG) Jane Ansah is under fire from President Bingu wa Mutharika who wants her replaced. Ansah who was appointed from High Court “specifically” to help President Mutharika fight as a referral authority on constitution provision that says lawmakers who switch parties should lose their seat, would go back ... More About: Attorney , Fire , Attorney General
Mutharika issues arrest warning
2007-06-21 00:00:00 President Bingu wa Mutharika in his last ditch to cling to power has declared today (Wednesday) that he will deal with opposition party leaders especially former President Dr Bakili Muluzi and John Tembo hinting the duo risk arrest, parliamentarians who attended the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) meeting have said. “Those ... More About: Arrest , Issues , Warning , Hari , Issue
Mussa blames Mutharika for blocking registration
2007-06-20 00:00:00 Former Agriculture Minister and interim president of Malavi People’s Party (MPP), Uladi Mussa, has bitterly accused State President Bingu wa Mutharika for masterminding the blockade on registration of his party and says will seek redress from the courts. Mussa, former first vice president of the “collapsed ruling” Democratic Progressive Party ... More About: Block , Ames , Lock , Blame , Lame
Refugees defecating in Lake Malawi
2007-06-20 00:00:00 As Malawi joins the rest of the nations in commemorating the World Refugee Day today, some people along Lake Malawi have threatened to deal with the asylum seekers who are accused of practising ‘unhygienic manners’. Some residents in Karonga and Rumphi allege that, the migrants have turned the fresh-water lake ... More About: Refugees , Fugees , Gees
Paladin, NGOs case fails
2007-06-20 00:00:00 A legal challenge over Pala din Africa Limited’s US$185 million Kayelekera uranium project in Karonga failed to take off today (Tuesday) at the Lilongwe High Court as legal teams for both sides were still finalising exchange of paperwork, Nyasa Times has learnt. Six non-governmental organisations (NGOs) sued the Australian firm and ... More About: Case
OPINION: Political gaffes of Malawi President
2007-06-20 00:00:00 When President Bingu Wa Mutharika opened the Budget Session of government recently, he carelessly took a swipe at the Judiciary claiming that they are corrupt. Everybody who is anyone knows that our Judiciary is one of the most respected in the world. During the former President Dr Bakili Muluzi era, there ... More About: Political , Opinion , Malawi , Poli
Malawi listed among failed countries
2007-06-20 00:00:00 The “Failed States Index” survey released today (Tuesday) by the US Foreign Policy magazine and Fund for Peace think-tank has passed a startling verdict on 177 countries in the world, classifying and ranking Malawi on position 29 worldwide and 14th in Africa. Count ries were ranked according to 12 ... More About: Listed , Alaw
Munlo appointed Chief Justice
2007-06-19 00:00:00 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has appointed Mr Lovemore Green Munlo to succeed Chief Justice Leonard Unyolo at the end of this month (June). According to a media statement from the Office of President and Cabinet, Munlo replaces Unyolo who retires on June 27. The Constitution of Malawi empowers the president to ... More About: Chief Justice
Political instability threatens poverty spending
2007-06-19 00:00:00 As President Bingu wa Mutharika's minority party faces the possibility of losing more seats in parliament, Malawi's civil society has expressed concern that this year's budget, expected to be presented next week, might be stalled. Last week, Malawi's Supreme Court granted powers to the Speaker of Parliament to ... More About: Political , Poverty , Spending , Poli , Stability
Malawi, UN sign micro finance pact
2007-06-19 00:00:00 Malawi and United Nations have signed an agreement for a micro financing project that will contribute towards poverty reduction by increasing access to financial services to the poor and low-income population groups. Speaking at the signing ceremony today (Tuesday), Malawi’s Minister of Finan ce , Goodall Gondwe, said deepening the financial sector ... More About: Malawi , Sign , Micro
Two bodies identified in Malawi plane Crash
More articles from this author:2007-06-19 00:00:00 Two of the six people who perished during a Saturday tragic plane crash in Rumphi district, northern Malawi have been identified, police have confirmed. Malawi Police spokesperson, Willie Mwaluka, said specialists succeeded in identifying the two bodies of a woman, Dawn Rollins, 45, and the Canadian pilot Christian Monpeth, 43. ... More About: Plane , Crash , Plan , Bodies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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