Consumers have a right to fuel and forex black market in Malawi
LILONGWE (IPS) – The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market. Since September 2010, there has been an erratic [...]
Army asked to evacuate flood victims in southern Malawi
Lilongwe. The Malawi Defence Force has despatched helicopters and marines to vacuate thousands of villagers who are stranded in Malawi’s flooded villages in the Lower Shire Valley district of Nsanje. Rodney Simwaka Nsanje District Commissioner says heavy rain down pours that have hit highland areas since last week have burst the country’s longest, Shire and another [...]
Malawi Law Society in solidarity with striking court workers
Lilongwe – About 35 lawyers under the banner of the Malawi Law Society Monday morning marched to the Lilongwe High Court to show their solidarity to the junior judiciary members of staff who have down tools since January 9, 2012, in a bid to force government to implement a salary increment duly approved by the [...]
Black-market intelligence driving Malawi police
Lilongwe – Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) chief strategist Humphreys Mvula has condemned the Malawi Police Service for depending on ‘black-market intelligence’ to perform their duties. He was reacting to his summoning together with renowned human rights lawyer Ralph Kasambara for questioning over alleged plans to incite the public against government. Mvula said Southern [...]
Mining rush kneads Malawi’s economy
Lilongwe – Faced with a declining tobacco industry, which accounts for 70 per cent of Malawi’s foreign exchange earnings, the mining sector looks set to take over as the country’s leading economic life line. According to the department of Mining and Geological Survey, a state campaign to attract mining investors is paying off some dividends [...]
Malawi’s People’s Party cashing in on inter-party squabbles
Lilongwe – Estranged Malawi state Vice President Joyce Banda’s People’s Party (PP) says it is cashing in on the inter-party disputes prevailing in most of the country’s leading political parties to strengthen its structures and consolidate itself. PP spokesperson Steven Mwenye said while members of the country’s major political parties including the ruling Democratic Progressive Party [...]
UDF foresees increased poverty and misery for Malawians
Lilongwe – Malawi’s former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) president Friday Jumbe has predicted that the country is headed for increased poverty, deaths and misery if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration does not put together a fine-tuned fiscal act following the implementation of a national Zero Deficit Budget last June. The DPP last year [...]
Women’s education – The path to the Presidency in Malawi
BLANTYRE, (IPS) – On an elegant veranda adorned with a red carpet, Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda recalls how her childhood friend Chrissie Mtokoma was always top of their class and how she struggled to beat her. But now decades later Banda is a likely contender for the country’s presidency in 2014, while Mtokoma lives [...]
ICC takes Malawi to UN Security Council over Al-Bashir
Lilongwe – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has referred Malawi to the UN Security Council for refusing to arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir when he visited Malawi during the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) in October. Al-Bashir is the first sitting African president to be indicted by the ICC. He is wanted [...]
Malawi’s climate data services underutilised
Lilongwe – Malawian scientists have said that the status and utilization of climate data around Malawi’s southern region bird wetland drainage lake, Lake Chilwa, are very low and show a lot of gaps and inconsistencies that if not resolved, would present challenges to decision making on climate change adaptation by local communities. According to the [...]
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