Mwayi Mkandawire, Author at Malawi 24

Kamuzu Hospital CT scanner not working

Jun 17, 2019 0

The Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner at Kamuzu Central Hospital has been down for almost 10 months as it requires a replacement part that costs about K42 million. According to information reaching Malawi24, hospital authorities are… ...

Liwonde-Mangochi road now named after Mutharika

Jun 17, 2019 1

President Peter Mutharika has accepted chiefs’ request for the Liwonde-Mangochi road to be called the Peter Mutharika Highway. Traditional leaders from the Eastern Region made the request at a Democratic Progressive Party rally which Mutharika… ...

Chilima tells supporters to join June 20 demos

Jun 16, 2019 0

UTM president Saulos Chilima has urged the party’s followers to join the June 20 demonstrations which Civil Society Organisations have organised to force Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah to resign. Chilima made the… ...

Cashgate: Malawi Bureau of Standards buys 49 computers at K80 million

Jun 15, 2019 2

… One computer billed at K1.6million The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has come under fire for buying 49 desktop computers at K80 million. The bureau issued a notice in a local newspaper on June… ...

Ex-civil servant arrested over K19 million cashgate

Jun 13, 2019 0

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a former Procurement Officer at the Ministry of Tourism over K19 million cashgate. The man Oddoi Kamange was arrested on Tuesday in Lilongwe. The bureau says Kamange, in 2013,… ...

Malawi President Peter Mutharika swearing in ceremony

Mutharika wants Chakwera, Chilima petitions struck out

Jun 13, 2019 1

President Peter Mutharika has asked the Constitutional Court to remove Malawi Congress President Lazarus Chakwera as second petitioner and to strike out UTM leader Saulos Chilima’s petition in the Malawi election case. On Wednesday, Mutharika’s… ...

Amnesty urges Malawi to legalise homosexuality

Jun 11, 2019 1

A court in Botswana has decriminalised homosexuality and Amnesty International has called on Malawi and other African countries to do the same. In a statement today, the rights group said Gaborone High Court’s decision to… ...