Politics Posts

Nkhata Bay District Council approves K8 billion budget

Feb 09, 2024 Ephraim Mkali Banda 0 &

Nkhata-Bay District Council has approved a proposed K8 billion annual budget for the 2024/2025 financial year. Presenting the budget at a Full Council meeting, Chairperson for the Council’s Finance Committee, Acran Chenya said the budgeted… ...

UK nationals no longer require VISA to enter Malawi

Feb 08, 2024 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has removed VISA restrictions for nationals from 79 countries including United Kingdom, China, United States, Russia and Germany as well as nationals from Southern African countries excluding countries which subject Malawians to… ...

DPP denies appointing Mary Navicha as leader of opposition in Parliament

Feb 08, 2024 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 0 &

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has abandoned George Chaponda and has now opted for Mary Thom Navitcha as the Leader of Opposition in Parliament. The long serving DPP member Navitcha who is Thyolo Thava constituency… ...

SRWB to plant 100,000 trees in the current Forestry Season

Feb 08, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

The Southern Region Water Board (SRWB) is geared to plant 100,000 trees within its service jurisdiction in the current forestry eason. This was disclosed at Mulunguzi dam in Zomba when Deputy Minister of Water and… ...

Did the 2020 Concourt judgment make any formidable  impact in Malawi’s political landscape?

Feb 08, 2024 Rick Dzida 0 &

On 3 February 2020, the  High Court sitting as a constitutional court in Lilongwe, nullified the 2019 presidential  election which was won by Peter Mutharika. This verdict was arrived at following massive electoral irregularities although… ...

There Are No Half Measures in Fighting Corruption

Feb 08, 2024 Chisala Maxwell L 0 &

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) recently celebrated twenty-five years of its existence.  Coincidentally, this is the time it took the former British Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency (ACA) to successfully turn its country from ‘the most corrupt… ...

Persecuting whistleblowers like Gregory Gondwe is a political suicide

Feb 08, 2024 Rick Dzida 0 &

It is disappointing that the Tonse Alliance administration has started war against those who have patriotically spent their energy to fight corruption. The pathetic development that  the ardent whistleblower, Gregory Gondwe, has gone into hiding… ...