Luciano arrives Friday
Jamaican reggae singer Luciano, popularly known as Jah Messenger, is expected to leave Jamaica Wednesday ahead of his African tour. Born Jepther McClymont, the artist was initially supposed to tour the...
View ArticleGoodal Gondwe happy over IMF funding
Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe today said IMF’s resumption of aid to Malawi was pleasing because it shows that the country has passed the test on its ability to manage its affairs. “Of course they...
View ArticleNo harm caused by Kayerekera
The Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining has moved in to assure the nation that a spillage incident at Kayerekera Uranium Mine on January 5 2015 caused no harm to water bodies. Some...
View ArticleLesson number 3:
Everything has a shelf life We are back in Kasungu and at the Inn the great Ngwazi bequeathed to us. We left Blantyre three days after interring Edward Henderson Chitsulo, also known as Honourable K.L...
View ArticleFAM to rule on violence
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) is next week expected to release a verdict on the violence that marred the launch of Mighty Wanderers’ Be Forward sponsorship at Kamuzu Stadium last Sunday....
View ArticleTama asks China to buy more tobacco
Tobacco Association of Malawi Executive Director Graham Kunimba has urged China to increase the amount of tobacco it purchases from Malawi as that would help increase the prices at the Auction Floors....
View ArticleShould March 3 victims be compensated?
The idea that human beings are entitled, as a matter of right, to an effective compensation has got a turbulent, controversial and incomplete background. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
View ArticleKusanthula mitundu ya adzukulu pamaliro
Nthawi zambiri pazovuta anthu akamva dzina lakuti adzukulu amaganiza za anyamata okumba manda, komatu akuti liwuli ndi ulemu womwe umaperekedwa kwa anthu omwe amapatsidwa maudindo osiyanasiyana...
View ArticleZipolowe kumpira ayi
Ku mpira wa Silver ndi Mighty Be Forward kudatsotsomoledwa miyala uko apolisi akufukiza utsi wokhetsa misozi. Lero tikumva kuti si masapota a matimu awiri amasewerawo koma okonda timu ina amene...
View ArticleRemove thugs from the game
It appears the nauseating thuggery acts that belong in the crime world are slowly being imported to football and no one seems to care enough to get to the root of the problem. I am all for passion of...
View ArticleDykes can be solution to floods—Malemia
Senior Chief Malemia of Nsanje has called upon government and all stakeholders working on supporting flood victims in Chikwawa and Nsanje to consider constructing dykes as a long-term solution to...
View ArticleVolunteerism is alive in Malawi
Our Lilongwe Bureau Chief, SAMUEL CHUNGA, talks to the Country Director of the United States Peace Corps in Malawi, CAROL SPAHN, who reflects on what volunteers and their Malawian hosts have achieved...
View ArticleDo we need ‘beef’?
The East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry in the United States of America in the 1990s is arguably one of biggest musical rivalries in history. The feud was between artists and fans of the East Coast...
View Article‘We trust no one’
People living with albinism have suffered discrimination for a long time, but the recent spate of killings and abductions has taken matters too far. PAIDA MPASO spoke to BONIFACE MASSAH, executive...
View ArticleMdima wanyanya m’makhonsolo
Zomwe anena a makhonsolo a mizinda ya Lilongwe Blantyre ndi Mzuzu zikusonyeza kuti vuto la mdima m’misewu ya mizindayi litenga nthawi kuti lithe kaamba koti, ngakhale akuyesetsa kuti akonze zinthu,...
View ArticleMark my words, that addiction will rob you big time!
When I was working in government some years back, there was one senior economist who used to drink his head off. He got so bad that he could only pop-in at the office when the pay days were around the...
View ArticleMsb sale saga refuses to die
The controversy surrounding the sale of majority stake in State-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) refuses to die, with opinions from legal practitioners clashing as the government moves to move on with...
View ArticlePro-gay NGOs pen APM over marriage law
As the nation awaits President Peter Mutharika to assent to the recently passed Marriage Bill, several local and international civil society groups have ganged up to express their concerns, through the...
View ArticleKandoje out on K5m bail
The High Court in Lilongwe has granted bail to the former accountant general David Kandoje on a cash bond of K5 million after he was charged on two counts of abuse of office and theft by public servant...
View ArticleCare procures shelter kits for flood victims
Care Malawi, with support from European Commission (EC), at the weekend received a consignment of 2 000 tents destined for flood affected families in Nsanje District. Care Malawi country director...
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