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Bring federalism – Chakwera

Jun 27, 2016 Luke Bisani 138 &

Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President and leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera has urged the country to have federal system of government arguing that the current leadership is continuing misplacing priorities. Speaking at political rally in… ...

Cost of living to go up in Malawi

Jun 27, 2016 Luke Bisani 77 &

From a reverse of the trend that the cost of living was supposed to go down at this time as the harvest period still has its benefits in place, Malawians are expected to dig deeper… ...

More love for KCH: Chilima raises K27 million for the hospital

Jun 27, 2016 Bright Malenga 18 &

Days after a team of volunteers walked from Lilongwe to Blantyre under the Beyond You initiative to raise funds for a children’s ward at the Kamuzu Central Hospital, Vice President Saulos Chilima led a team… ...

Our ‘Me-First Nation-Later’ MPs

Jun 26, 2016 José Safarao 12 &

Business was crippled in parliament this week because the majority of MPs chose to pocket allowances with no intention of attending deliberations. And even after pocketing those allowances, they decided that national business should cease… ...

DPP cadets hunt Winiko

Jun 26, 2016 Luke Bisani 130 &

He was seen to be a joker like the rest of his friends, having fun and not caring about the consequences in his blue team and now Bon Kalindo now claims that his life is in… ...

Malawi govt. poverty: no allowances for College students for 6 months

Jun 26, 2016 Luke Bisani 36 &

Malawi24 can confidently reveal that following the tough economic times that the country is going through, the Malawi government has been forced to default paying allowances to students in Teachers Colleges for a period of… ...

MPs under attack for their love of money

Jun 26, 2016 Archangel Nzangaya 9 &

The stand by the Members of Parliament last week to suspend Parliament owing to their demand of loans and other financial benefits has come under attack. One of the country's well known political experts, Humphrey… ...

UK’s EU exit has no impact on Malawi

Jun 26, 2016 Luke Bisani 12 &

The decision by a section of citizens of the United Kingdom to break way from the European Union does not have any impact on Malawi or the relationship that Malawi enjoys with the United Kingdom.… ...

Man slapped with 7 years for K58 million worth of ivory

Jun 26, 2016 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 33 &

The chief resident magistrate in Machinga district on Friday sentenced 38 year-old James Mwera to seven years imprisonment for killing elephants and selling ivory. According to state prosecutor Dickens Mwambazi, police were tipped that the… ...

Chilima is not DPP

Jun 26, 2016 Aubrey Makina 128 &

Vice President Saulos Chilima might be in a relationship with Peter Mutharika like the one that Joyce Banda had with Bingu wa Mutharika in their last days. A social commentator has said that the signs… ...

Malawi24 special report: DPP knows something on the murder of albinos

Jun 26, 2016 Aubrey Makina 278 &

A section of Malawians has expressed thoughts that Politicians from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party might be the force behind the violence targeted at people with albinism. The comments have come following the comments made… ...

DPP disowns Winiko

Jun 25, 2016 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 360 &

Member of Parliament for Mulanje South Bon Winiko Kalindo might have gained prominence for leading a semi-naked parade against the killing of people with albinism but the political party for which he is a member… ...

Mutharika turns useless rally into an English classroom

Jun 25, 2016 Aubrey Makina 172 &

…says Kamuzu only fed people to crocodiles Malawi leader Peter Mutharika turned a rally he addressed at Limbuli in Mulanje into an English classroom apparently indicating how much he has the colonial hangovers. Speaking at… ...

Tiwonge Chimbalanga & Steve Monjeza are a gay couple who were arrested and jailed to 14 years in Malawi

Being bisexual in Mulanje

Jun 24, 2016 Samuel Majamanda 63 &

Sitting there with them felt like committing a mortal sin; and listening to their nonsense somehow made this reporter feel uneasy, being born and raised in a nation termed ‘God-fearing’. But for whatever it was;… ...

Trouble at Prime Insurance!

Jun 24, 2016 Luke Bisani 4 &

Weeks after Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) announced that it will take over administration of Prime Insurance, sheriffs have impounded property at the insurance company’s Mzuzu branch over an outstanding balance to its clients. Confirming… ...