Politics Posts

Kachere residents get rude awakening

May 24, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 29 &

Kachere residents in Blantyre today had a rude awakening after a bulldozer demolished their houses and structures. According to reports, there was heavy police presence in the area when a Mota Engil bulldozer went about… ...

Chaponda grilled in Parliament!

May 24, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 5 &

Malawi Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda failed to sleep in Parliament today as he faced a barrage of questions from members regarding the country’s food security situation. Among other questions, the… ...

Govt maintains nobody died of hunger

May 24, 2016 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 65 &

The Malawi government has stuck to its stand that no one died of hunger in the country, and has challenged those with evidence of the deaths to come forward and prove it. When making his… ...

Uladi resurfaces with calls for Mutharika to step down

May 24, 2016 Joseph Dumbula 204 &

...tells APM to consult him The calls for President Peter Mutharika to step down over what the opposition said is 'failure' by the Malawi leader to rule the nation did not just die down, Uladi… ...

Mutharika urged to trim number of aides

May 24, 2016 Luke Bisani 31 &

People’s Party (PP) acting President Uladi Mussa has urged President Peter Mutharika to reduce the number of his advisors. Mussa was speaking in Parliament on Monday after he was given a chance to comment on… ...

Exit orange enter blue vehicles at BCC

May 24, 2016 Luke Bisani 23 &

It has been a tradition in Malawi that city councils change colours of their equipment basing on the colour that the ruling party uses. For the two year period under Peoples Party (PP) leadership, Blantyre… ...

Man gets eight years for human trafficking

May 24, 2016 Baxter Mkumba 35 &

A court in Ntcheu district has sentenced 20 year-old Abdul Yasin to 8 years imprisonment with hard labour for human trafficking. Yasin was caught last week trafficking 26 people using unchartered routes in Ntcheu. It… ...