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/ 18 December 2003
Malawi has failed to qualify for a share in a -billion package from the United States to fight Aids in Africa and the Caribbean because corruption in the country remains rife, the US envoy has said. ”Putting money where corruption is not controlled is a waste,” said the US ambassador to Malawi.
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/ 28 November 2003
When the Commonwealth heads of government gather in Nigeria next month for their bi-annual meeting, the agenda will probably be dominated by politics. But, if activist Julita Msanjama had her way, the leaders would spend most of their time discussing education.
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/ 31 October 2003
The gambling industry is making inroads on the African continent. If not closely monitored, it could bring with it a host of evils such as prostitution, money laundering and fraud — not to mention gambling addiction. These problems were discussed in Malawi recently at a meeting of industry regulators from around the continent.
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/ 22 October 2003
Local economists have welcomed Monday’s decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resume aid to Malawi, but warned government to keep its promise of fiscal discipline by cutting over-expenditure in non-priority areas such as foreign travel.
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/ 14 October 2003
Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has defended his numerous overseas trips, saying they benefit the impoverished southern African country. Muluzi, who has just returned from a three-week trip to Asia, told a press conference that his critics were ”ignorant” and that he needed to travel in order to ”engage people”.
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/ 10 October 2003
Alarmed by the dwindling numbers of a rare species of fish, locally known as chambo, the Malawi government has formulated a 10-year plan to restore the fish in Lake Malawi, and its largest outlet, Shire River. Lake Malawi is Africa’s third largest fresh water lake.
Malawi’s High Court has nullified a section of the country’s constitution that limits the freedom of association for lawmakers, describing it as an ”oppressive monster”. The clause in the constitution restricted lawmakers and politicians from participating in political groupings other than their own parties.
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/ 22 September 2003
Up to half of Malawi’s professional workforce could die of HIV/Aids by 2005, the World Bank has said in a report timed to coincide with the opening of a major conference in Kenya on the pandemic in Africa. An estimated one million Malawians are living with HIV, out of a total population of 11-million.
Many Malawians stayed up late on Monday to watch the return of Big Brother Africa on the country’s only television station after the High Court quashed a ban imposed over the show’s sex scenes.
A Malawian journalist has been sacked from an Islamic radio station for broadcasting an interview with wives of five alleged al-Qaeda members deported last month from the southern African country under US orders, a radio official said on Thursday.
Amnesty International says it is increasingly concerned about America’s attitude to human rights in the wake of this week’s arrest of five suspected al-Qaeda operatives and their secret removal from Malawi.
Five suspected al-Qaeda members, whose extradtion had been blocked by the high court here, have now left Malawi for an undisclosed location, a government official said on Wednesday.
Malawi’s high court has barred the deportation of five foreigners suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda terror network, their lawyer said on Monday.
Impoverished Malawi will have to wait till next month to hear whether millions in much needed aid will be made available, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Monday.
One man has been killed and several others injured in violent clashes between landless peasants and security guards at a tea estate in the southern Malawian district of Mulanje, police said on Thursday.
Just a year before he leaves office, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has broken all records and appointed the tiny southern African country’s largest cabinet in 39 years of independence.
President Bakili Muluzi who earlier this week named his successor fired his entire cabinet on Wednesday, according to a statement from his office.
President Bakili Muluzi on Thursday became the first sitting Malawi president to appear before a court of law in the country’s 39 years as an independent state.
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/ 25 February 2003
Foreigners have complained to the Malawi government about the controversial land policy which bars all non-Malawians and foreign firms from owning land, the land minister said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 February 2003
Malawi’s government has barred demonstrations planned for Monday in protest against President Bakili Muluzi’s bid to stand for a third term in office, Justice Minister Henry Phoya said.
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/ 13 February 2003
Cholera has killed 28 people in Malawi since the onset of rains in October last year, a health official told AFP Thursday. Habib Somanje, controller of preventive health services said the death toll from the infectious water-borne disease had risen by
nine in one month.
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/ 10 January 2003
A senior ruling party official was recovering in a hospital on Thursday after being stoned by an angry mob who believed rumours he was harbouring vampires.
Floods and heavy rains caused by a tropical cyclone that hit Malawi last week have hampered relief food distribution in the famine-stricken south of the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.
A group of lions that escaped from a national game park have killed three people in central Malawi, police said on Monday. Police say the lions crawled through a break in the fence at the Kasungu National Park.
Floods in Malawi have left four people dead and more than 15 000 people homeless while causing extensive damage to desperately-needed maize crops, relief officials said on Sunday.
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/ 12 December 2002
Three Roman Catholic priests were assaulted and taken hostage for a night in southern Malawi by angry villagers who accused them of trying to steal their blood, a priest said on Thursday.
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/ 11 October 2002
A Medecins sans Frontieres pilot project operating in southern Malawi to promote Aids awareness and HIV testing has had an almost 100% success rate in its mother-to-child transmission prevention programme.
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/ 27 September 2002
Elias Nkawa worked at High Short Farm, 75km north of Harare, for many years. He claims to originate from the southern Malawi district of Machika but cannot recall for how long he lived there. He has nothing to feed his family and lacks shelter since his former employer fled his farm.
MALAWI police said on Friday they had arrested a fugitive member of
parliament (MP) wanted on charges of killing his driver and possibly also
his wife, after a five-week manhunt.
ELEPHANTS and hippos have destroyed up to 10 000 hectares of crops in
hunger-stricken Malawi’s southern lakeshore district of Mangochi, a local
lawmaker said on Saturday.
About 50 opposition supporters went into hiding following clashes with militant youths apparently aligned with the ruling party.
Britain will be a major sponsor of this year’s programme to distribute free maize seeds and fertiliser to farmers in famine-hit Malawi.