DPP’s succession plans pulling down Malawi’s gains
Lilongwe – Research Associate of the London based Overseas Development Institute, Diana Cammack, has warned that Malawi risks failing to turn around the social and economic lives of its citizens if the Bingu wa Mutharika administration continues to centralize power into the hands of the president and pamper politics of patronage. Cammack, leader of the [...]
Maxwell Dlamini’s trial to finally begin?
Will the trial of Swazi student leader, Maxwell Dlamini, and his co-accused, Musa Ngubeni, finally be heard in court? The trial has been delayed since Dlamini and Ngubeni were detained in April, in connection with the biggest demonstrations for democracy and socio-economic justice in Swaziland in many years – the so-called “April 12 Uprising.” They were [...]
Petitioners from around the world call for the release of Maxwell Dlamini
The Free Maxwell Dlamini Campaign has started a petition for the release of Swazi student leader and political prisoner, Maxwell Dlamini. Dlamini was detained and charged with possession of explosives before the April 12 Uprising in Swaziland, was allegedly tortured and forced to sign a confession, and has been awaiting trial ever since. People from around [...]
Unionist from Malawi to head regional journalist body
Lilongwe – Maganizo Fly Mazeze president of the Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) has been elected president of the Southern Africa Journalists Association (SAJA) at the end of SAJA’s two-day regional congress held in the Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. In an announcement made by JUMA Secretary General George Mhango, Mazeze was elected into the position of [...]
Swazi student leader nominated for student peace prize
Maxwell Dlamini, President of the Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS), has been nominated for the 2013 Student Peace Prize, an award given every other year on behalf of Norwegian students to fellow students around the world who have “done important work to promote peace, democracy or human rights.” The Student Peace Prize attempts to shed [...]
Imprisoned Swazi political prisoner: don’t mourn over me
“It is very unfortunate that a brave young comrade like Maxwell Dlamini [President of the Swaziland National Union of Students] can be made to stay in prison while we need him outside to pursue the struggle of the Swazi people,” Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, President of the Students Representative Council at the University of Swaziland, tells Africa [...]
Civil society organisations call for action to stop land grabbing in developing countries
CHANGWON, South Korea (IPS) – Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity. Africa is one of the continents where corporations are flocking to lease or buy land for different projects such as mining, growing bio-fuel crops [...]
Indigenous crops: a solution to climate change
Lilongwe – Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Irrigation Friday organised a Seed and Food Fair that brought together policy makers and communities to deliberate on the need to conserve indigenous food crops and livestock in an effort to ensure sustainable food security and meaningful climate change mitigation and adaptation. Secretary to the ministry, Erica [...]
Lilongwe Wildlife Centre – A catalyst for exchange and exposure in Malawi
Lilongwe – Tourism investor Ton de Rooy has lauded Lilongwe Wildlife Centre as Malawi’s catalyst for exchange and exposure of the southern African nation’s cultural, wildlife and environmental beauty. He said a tourism project Lilongwe Wildlife Centre has recently been hailed in the Lonely Planet as the top visitor’s destination in Malawi’s central region. “Lonely Planet says [...]
Campaigning for Africa’s Research and Development
It is encouraging to hear these days the constant talks about research and development (R&D) in Ghana’s/Africa’s progress. Propositions of setting up high-level research and training institutes in crucial fields such as green technology, crop improvement, tropical medicine, deforestation, water supply and desertification are becoming daily issues not only in Ghana but in one part [...]
