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Breaking: Malawi Opposition members arrested for treason: Ulemu Msungama detained, Kabwila still on the run

Feb 21, 2016 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 346 &

One of the senior member of the opposition Malawi Congress Party, Ulemu Msungama, has been arrested and is currently detained at Kanengo Police Station. Ulemu Msungama posted on his facebook earlier without clarifying that he… ...

Kabwila on the run!

Feb 21, 2016 Luke Bisani 663 &

….her mother worried Police officers armed to the teeth stormed Jessie Kabwila’s house in Area 36 in Lilongwe on Sunday morning and turned the place upside down, trying to find the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)… ...

Mutharika out to silence critics

Feb 21, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 1,344 &

Reports reaching Malawi24 news desk indicate that Jessie Kabwila, spokesperson for opposition Malawi Congress Party, has been arrested for sedition over remarks she made during the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) stakeholders' conference which cited the… ...

PAC asks Mutharika to resign now

Feb 20, 2016 Joseph Dumbula 2,770 &

Religious groupings under the umbrella body Public Affairs Committee (PAC) have resolved that it is now time for Malawi President Peter Mutharika to resign saying the current woes haunting the nation are evidence that his… ...

MCP still pushing to impeach Mutharika

Feb 19, 2016 Luke Bisani 406 &

The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has vowed to oust the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) arguing that the party has failed to deliver good leadership for the country. Speaking to Malawi24, MCP spokesperson Jessie Kabwila… ...

Lilongwe chiefs rebuke MCP legislator

Feb 05, 2016 Martha Chikoti 14 &

Chiefs from Lilongwe Makuyu North Constituency have reproached their Member of Parliament (MP) for being unconcerned with the area’s development activities. The chiefs said Walesi Chipuwa, who is a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP never… ...

Kabwila – Chakwera honeymoon on its deathbed

Feb 01, 2016 Aubrey Makina 31 &

Malawi24 has been tipped that danger is looming in the opposition Malawi Congress Party following the souring of the relationship between party President Lazarus Chakwera and spokesperson Jessie Kabwila. According to sources, Chakwera has not… ...

MCP suspends anti-Chakwera members

Jan 30, 2016 Luke Bisani 55 &

As controversy continues in opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the party’s central region committee has suspended five district committee chairpersons. According to the regional committee, the five district chairpersons are CK Banda, Foloma Mwale, Chisenga,… ...

Trouble in MCP, Kabwila tears Chakwera apart: ‘we are being undemocratic and unconstitutional’

Jan 29, 2016 Aubrey Makina 145 &

The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is failing to have its house in order. This is after media reports have quoted the Party’s spokesperson Jessie Kabwila as saying that the party has stopped following its… ...

John Tembo named in Cashgate scandal

Jan 27, 2016 Joseph Dumbula 271 &

…Kasambara ‘forcefully’ implicated In the ongoing probe into the Cashgate scandal, jailed Oswald Lutepo has confessed in court that he was given money by former Malawi leader, Joyce Banda, meant to fund John Tembo's campaign at the… ...

MCP blasts DPP for telling hospitals to grow maize

Jan 22, 2016 Archangel Nzangaya 260 &

Malawi's main opposition party, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has blasted government for suggesting through the minister of information that hospitals in the country have to be growing crops to feed their patients. The party's spokesperson… ...

“Politicians who dump their parties are greedy”

Jan 19, 2016 Archangel Nzangaya 31 &

Former minister Ziliro Chibambo says politicians who dump political parties without any proper reasons are motivated by greed. Chibambo, who once served as a cabinet minister in former president Bakili Muluzi’s administration said the politicians… ...