Month: May 2016 Posts

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… ...

‘I wasn’t sleeping,’ sleeping George denies napping through Mutharika’s address

May 22, 2016 Aubrey Makina 210 &

Leader of the house in Malawi Parliament and likely successor to be of Malawi President, George Chaponda, has denied sleeping in Parliament although pictures of him sleeping are in the public domain. In an interview… ...

Sleeping George Chaponda breaks the internet

May 21, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 396 &

He may perhaps not have slept well enough in preparation for the opening of the parliament on Friday but newly appointed leader of the House, George Chaponda has seen his images which show him in deep… ...

Mutharika’s speech in Parliament was boring – Chaponda

May 20, 2016 Aubrey Makina 69 &

Malawi President Peter Mutharika's choice of a Leader of the House in Parliament to take over from Francis Kasaira could never have been any worse. The Malawi leader announced ahead of the 2016/17 Parliamentary budget… ...

Mutharika repositions Chaponda as DPP’s 2019 presidential candidate

May 19, 2016 Luke Bisani 120 &

President Peter Mutharika has placed Minister of Agriculture George Chaponda in a good position to become Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate in the 2019 elections. Mutharika has appointed the DPP Member of Parliament as… ...

Malawi government to procure solar pumps

May 05, 2016 Victoria Milanzi 21 &

In a bid to ensure food security Malawi, government says it has plans to buy and install solar pumps in various areas in the country. Minister of agriculture, irrigation and water development George Chaponda said… ...

Trouble! Malawi hunger worsens

May 05, 2016 Luke Bisani 26 &

Reports reaching Malawi24 reveal that nearly half of Malawi’s population is to be food insecure following persistent dry spells that will lead to low yields in most districts of the country. A report released last… ...