Month: August 2016 Posts

MCP fights for poor Unima students

Aug 01, 2016 Luke Bisani 72 &

The Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has advised authorities to make sure that students in the country are able to access public universities arguing that there is need to approach the fees hike issue with… ...

Mr President, in Malawi, hyenas exist in both high and low places, arrest them all

Jul 29, 2016 Wise One From the East 53 &

In Malawi, just in the past two weeks forty eight people have been arrested. Sixteen were students from the Chancellor College, the Polytechnic contributed fourteen, and the Kamuzu College of Nursing’s quota was seventeen, all for… ...

Mutharika given 5-day ultimatum over fees hike

Jul 28, 2016 Timothy Kachedwa 97 &

Students from Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN) have given President Peter Mutharika five days to make a decision on the recent University of Malawi fees hike, Malawi24 can confirm. The students made the demand after… ...

Chakwera meets with UNIMA students: says Fees must fall

Jul 27, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 326 &

Opposition Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera has joined the chorus of University of Malawi students and other commentators in advocating for the fall of the University of Malawi fees which were raised to a… ...

University students finger Police in Chanco fire

Jul 27, 2016 Luke Bisani 8 &

Students from University of Malawi (Unima) have accused the police of damaging property during the Chancellor College demonstrations arguing that the cops’ acts were 'senseless'. The development comes at a time when the University council… ...

Fees must fall: CoM students to protest against fee hike

Jul 26, 2016 Luke Bisani 133 &

Students from College of Medicine (CoM) a constituent college of University of Malawi (UNIMA) have disclosed that they are next to be teargased as they plan to demonstrate against fees hike. Being under one name,… ...

Update: Seven KCN Students arrested

Jul 25, 2016 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 50 &

...as 14 Poly students get bail Police in Lilongwe have netted up to seven students from the Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima) during the protests the students held… ...