Civil society in Malawi have reacted to recent xenophobic attacks to foreign nationals in South Africa,with a call to South…
Bon Kalindo Goodwill Zwelithini, Lindiwe Zulu, Malawi, SouthAfrica, Timothy Mtambo, XenophobiaPosts by tag: Malawi
Hope for young girls like these have been dashed with the passing of this bill (photo by Kelvin Tembo) The…
Brussels Mughogho, Child marriages, Malawi, Mwiza Nkhata, Thandi Kalima, Traditional Authority Chowe
After Malawi was hit by unprecedented flooding in January this year,several local and international organisations responded with various relief…
Chikwawa, floods, Malawi, Mchenga, Ngabu
The year 2014 marked fifty years of Malawi´s independence, twenty years of democracy and a return of local government councillors…
Chashgate, corruption, Malawi, Mutharika, Ostafrika, Peter Mutharika
President Peter Mutharika, has declared Malawi a state of disaster following the flash floods that mainly hit the southern part…
flash flood, floods, help, human aid, international help, Malawi
Government of the republic of Malawi has been given a 100 days ultimatum by civil society organizations CSO’s in the…
Civil Society, Malawi, petition
Continuous heavy rains hitting Malawi since last Saturday have caused severe flooding in 17 administrative districts with reported deaths of…
Chikwawa, East-Africa, flood, Malawi, Ostafrika, Überschwemmung
Der junge Filmemacher Manuel Rees aus Deutschland und der junge Elektroingenieur Chipiliro Masina aus Malawi haben gemeinsam einen Dokumentarfilm produziert,…
Documentary, Germany, Malawi
By Deogracias Benjamin Kalima, Blantyre Richard Msowoya of the opposition Malawi Congress Party has been elected Speaker of Malawi National…
Deogracias Benjamin Kalima, elections, Malawi, Malawi National Assembly, presidential elections, Richard Msowoya
Arthur Peter Mutharika of Democratic Progressive Party was sworn in as Malawi’s fifth president on Saturday morning following the official…
Banda, elections, Malawi, Mutharika
With defeat on the horizon and her main rival about to win, President Joyce Banda has announced the nullification of…
Joyce Banda, Lazarous Chakwera, Malawi, Peter Mutharika, presidential elections
Malawi’s first tripartite polls were generally peaceful but in some areas violent protests overshadowed the elections. Voters were infuriated by…
Atupele Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre, DPP, election, Joyce Banda, Lazarus Chakwera, local council, Malawi, MCP, National Assembly, parliament, Peter Mutharika, PP, UDF
20 year old Funsani Kwanki from Chiru Village in Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, is gaining fame for his bawo prowess….
Bao, chess, football, Kwanji, Malawi, Netball, professional sports
Malawi is a booming mobile telecommunications market. From about 300.000 subscribers a decade ago, the subscription has rapidly grown to…
Airtel, Malawi, Mobile, Technology, TNM
According to Nyasatimes and one of Malawi’s most famous musicians, Lucius Banda, Lucky Dube’s famous One People band will be…
Johannesburg, Lucius Banda, Lucky Dube, Malawi, nyasatimes, One People Band
Most people know Malawi because of the famous Lake, which covers nearly a third of the country. But few know…
africa, athletes, Kandawire, LOCOG, MADISA, Malawi, Ministry of Sports, MPC, Pralympics, Sports
About one week ago, civil servants probably did not expect the situation to escalate as it did during past Thursday…
airports, anti-Banda, Blantyre, civil servants, clashes, devalutation, economy, foreign Donors, government, Lilongwe, Malawi, protests, recession, wage strike
Warum Malawi nach den Erfolgsmeldungen der letzten Jahre aktuell wieder Hunger droht, welche Schlüsse die Afrikanische Union zieht und wie…
AU, Banda, Hunger, IWF, Malawi, Mutharika
Malawi gilt als beliebtes Transitland für Flüchtlinge auf dem Weg nach Südafrika. Nachdem im vergangenen Jahr 49 Flüchtlinge aus Äthiopien…
Joyce Banda, Lake Malawi, Malawi, refugeesThe Malawi netball team’s participation at the newly introduced 3-day Fast5 Netball World Series has seen two record-breaking wins against…
Australia, Commonwealh, England, Fast5 Netball World Series, IFNA, Malawi, Netball, New ZealandDaily urban life in Lilongwe, Balaka and Zomba, Malawi In its fifth episode the Eufrika Photo Report illustrates some street…
Balaka, Central region, Daily urban life, Lilongwe, Malawi, photo report, ZombaThe 2012/13 academic year at Chancellor College in Zomba, part of the University of Malawi, is delayed due to complications…
Chancellor College, Fight for Academic Freedom, Lilongwe, Malawi, protests, salary increase, State House, Strike, university fees, University of Malawi, ZombaAs reported last month, Tanzania and Malawi were trying to find an agreement over the position of the water border…
border dispute, Lake Malawi, Malawi, TanzaniaThe Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) early this week announced a hike in petrol, diesel and industrial paraffin prices effective…
Fuel, Joyce Banda, Kwacha, Malawi, Malawi KwachaMalawi’s current president Joyce Banda addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York for the first time…
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Malawian journalist Terence Mwamlima investigates the actual presence of child labor in two market scenes in Malawi’s economic capital Blantyre….
Blantyre Market, Child labor, Limbe market, Malawi, rural areas, tea and tobacco estates, Terence Mwamlima, urban areas, urbanization(eufrika) – For over 50 years there has been a dispute over the border between Malawi and Tanzania. Attempts from…
border dispute, Dar es Salaam, International Court of Justice, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Mzuzu, oil exploration, TanzaniaNach einem Besuch der parlamentarischen Staatssekretärin Gudrun Kopp, sicherte die Deutsche Bundesregierung der malawischen Führung unter Joyce Banda am vergangenen…
Deutsche Bundesregierung, Economy, finanzielle Unterstützung, Gudrun Kopp, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, State HausTimveni is to become the first child-run TV-station worldwide. In Malawi, the project has now been granted a license to…
child and youth journalism, license, Lilly Omondi, Malawi, Plan Malawi, Plan Sweden, Timveni, TV station, UNICEFMalawian designer Lilly Alfonso recently shared with Urban Life Malawi how from the young age of six she has grown…
Fashion, Malawi“Nyasa Times” reported the arrest of Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Alexius Nampota. Fiscal police units arrested him on…
abuse of office, Alexius Nampota, Anti Corruption Bureau Malawi, arrest, Blantyre, Commonwealth Network, fiscal police, Malawi, Office of the President and CabinetIn an extensive interview with the news channel Al Jazeera, Malawi’s new Hon. President Joyce Banda talks about the future…
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It is not a totally new way of food production. Aquacultures were already used by several ancient populations for…
aquaculture, biodiversity, cameroon, Egypt, environmental protection, FAO, Kofi Annan, Malawi, Nigeria, overfishing, productivity, small scale farmers, Stavanger, sustainability, Uganda, World Business Conference on AquacultureAfrica’s Head of States were supposed to come together for the 19th AU Summit in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe from…
19th AU Summit, Addis Ababa, arrest warrant, Ethiopia, foreign Donors, ICC, Joyce Banda, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Malawi, Omar al-Bashir, relief funds, SudanOfficials of the International Monetary Fund have visited Malawi from May 23 until June 6 2012. The mission came together…
Bingu wa Mutharika, boost, Commonwealth, dependence, ECF arrangement, economy, foreign Donors, IMF, Joyce Banda, Karmalesh Sharma, Lilongwe, London, Malawi, Queen Elizabeth II., SAPs, World BankAfter the devaluation of Malawi’s currency by the National Bank about two weeks ago, the launch of the new 1000…
De La Rue, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Dr. Perks Ligoya, Inkosi Ya Makhosi Gomani II, Inkosi ya Makhosi M’mbelwa, James Frederick Sangala, John Chilembwe, K100, K1000, K20, K200, K50, K500, Malawi, Malawi Kwacha, NAC, Nyasaland, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), Rhodesia, Rose ChibamboThe news reports of the last days in Malawi concerning the Shire-Zambezi Waterway are highly contradictory. While People’s Party (PP)…
African Development Bank, Armando Guebuza, Bingu wa Mutharika, compensation, Jerry Jana, Joyce Banda, Land Grabbing, Lilongwe, Malawi, Maputo, mozambique, Nsanje Inland Port, PP, Shire-Zambezi waterway, ZambiaMalawi has announced a sharp, 33% devaluation of its currency, the Kwacha. The move follows pressure for the Southern African…
Bingu wa Mutharika, IMF, Joyce Banda, Kwacha, MalawiHalf a year passed since Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir last came to Malawi. By then late president Bingu wa Mutharika…
arrest warrant, AU, AU-summit, Bingu wa Mutharika, ICC, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, MCC Programme, Omar al-Bashir, Rome Statute, SudanThe Malawi government on Thursday, 26 April announced the formation of a new cabinet. This follows the sudden demise of…
Atupele Muluzi, Cassim Chilumpha, Joyce Banda, Malawi, parliamentAfter Zambia sent five million liters of fuel to Malawi last week, South Africa joins and furhter provides Malawi with fuel which lasts…
fuel support, Jacob Zuma, Joyce Banda, Malawi, South Africa, Thombile Mabude, ZambiaLast week Friday, Zambian energy minister Christopher Yalume announced a fuel support for Malawi. According to his statement, Zambia would…
Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel assistance, fuel shortage, funeral, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Malawi, mode of payment, Sata, ZambiaTies between politics and fuel imports in the Southern African state of Malawi continue to determine the consumption of the…
Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel assistance, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, MalawiOn 5 February 2012, Nigerian leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations Temitope Balogun Joshua (popularly known as T.B….
audience, Bingu wa Mutharika, death, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Michael Sata, prophecy, Robert Mugabe, statement, T.B. Joshua, Zambia, ZimbabweAfter Malawi’s President Hon. Bingu wa Mutharika suddenly died last Thursday, one of his most important critics, oppositional Joyce Banda…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawian ConstitutionBingu wa Mutharika (2008) Bingu wa Mutharika, president of the Republic of Malawi, has died on thursday at the age…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda, MalawiOn last weekend’s Saturday Malawi’s top Human Rights activist John Kapito got arrested in Lilongwe, accusations: Possession of guns, seditious…
arrest, Atupele Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Dave Chingwalu, Dr. Bakili Muluzi, forex, Geneva, Human Rights activist, illegal possession, International Coordinating Committee National Human Rights Institutions, John Kapito, Ken Ndanga, Malawi, Malawi Human Rights Commission, National Bank, Police, Switzerland, UNDP, United Democratic Front (UDF)Several media institutions have been accused of reporting too negatively about current developments in Malawi politics. Intentions were among others…
Alfred Ntonga, Anthony Kasunda, Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre Newspaper Limited (BNL), Brian Ligomeka, DPP Director of Youth, Frank Mwenefumbo, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Fuko, Health and Population Minister, Jean Kalirani, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawian Constitution, MISA, MISA-Malawi, Nation Newspaper, Nation on Sunday, National Publication Limited (NPL), Nyasa Times, State House, The Weekend Nation, threatsThe words were dropped last Sunday in Thyolo district in the South of Malawi. President Bingu wa Mutharika ceremonially opened…
Bingu wa Mutharika, demonstrations, DPP, DPP Youth Cadets, economic crisis, Fergus Cochraine-Dyet, foreign Donors, forex, fuel shortage, Gomile-Chidyaonga, Great Britain, hate speech, HRCC, Human Rights groups, IMF, London, Malawi, NGOs, protestsRalph Kasambara ist auf freiem Fuß – wieder nur vorerst, wie viele Beobachter befürchten. Der ehemalige malawische Generalstaatsanwalt, der als…
Amnesty International, Malawi, Mutharika, Polizei, Ralph Kasambara, VerhaftungIn October 2010 Nsanje Inland Port was ceremonially presented to the world. Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Zambia’s then president Banda showed…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Fortunato Albrinho, Malawi, mozambique, Nsanje, Nsanje Inland Port, Shire River, Shire-Zambezi waterway, Zambezi RiverAfter the Lilongwe Vendors Association in cooperation with the Malawian police last week launched a campaign to clean the city’s…
anti-riot police, Lilongwe, Lilongwe Vendors Association, Malawi, street clashes, street vendorsLast year Madonna and her charity Raising Malawi still cancelled their ambitious plans of building a girls academy for at…
BuildOn, Madonna, Malawi, Raising Malawi, the Associated PressThe incidents occurred for the first time on this week’s Tuesday in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe: Supposed young street vendors…
Blantyre, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, Mzuzu, nyasatimesIn recent times political observers, civil societies and newspapers from both Zimbabwe and Malawi recognized a systematic deterioration of circumstances…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Burkina Faso, Civil Society, foreign currencies, fuel crisis, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, Malawi, Robert Mugabe, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe
Nach Kenia ist Malawi der größte Teeexporteur Afrikas mit einem Exportertrag im vergangenen Jahr von…
2012, Atu Kalinga, Bloomberg, Export, Malawi, Taml, TeeernteNew York, London, Franfkurt, Madrid, Rome, Sydney, Hongkong – and from Monday Novemeber 28th on Malawi’s capital Lilongwe as well?…
Ben Chiza Mkandawire, Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel crisis, Lilongwe, Malawi, National Assembly, nyasatimes, Occupy Movement, Wall StreetWith the launch of the Twinning Programme Brain Trust in South Africa, a new project of news-cooperation enters its next…
Alpha Media Holdings Zimbabwe, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, BNL, Larry Kilman, Malawi, Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme, Nation Publications Limited, Sida, WAN-IFRA, ZimbabweIn last year’s May, East China Normal University’s chancellor Zhang Jishun and president Yu Lizhong welcomed a Malawian delegation lead…
Bingu wa Mutharika, East China Normal University, Malawi, malawidemocrat, Unima, University Council, University of MalawiWho would have thought that when Germany’s newest party the Pirates entered the political stage in Berlin and managed to…
Germany, Malawi, Pirate Party, PoliticsLast year in October the Malawian government made an announcement public wherein it asked international oil drilling companies to apply…
Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy, Chris Pitman, Goodall Gondwe, Lake Malawi, Malawi, reuters, Surestream PetroleumThis Thursday the Malawian government welcomed the current president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. He attended a state summit of the…
African Union, Amnesty International, Bingu wa Mutharika, European Union, International Crime Court (ICC), Malawi, Omar al-Bashir, SoudanMalawi, September the 24th, Robert Chasowa, vice president of Youth for Freedom and Democracy (YFD) was found dead on the…
Bingu wa Mutharika, DPP, Joyce, Lilongwe, Malawi, Polytechnic, Robert Chasowa, The Weekly Political Update, UDF, YDFSince people started organizing themselves in activist and human rights groups and carried their dissatisfaction with the current government to…
Bingu wa Mutharika, DPP, Fight for Academic Freedom, Malawi, Malawi Human Rights Commission, Polytechnic, UDF, University of MalawiIt is still not quiet in Malawi. July 20 anti-governmental demonstrations turned out violent, 19 people died. During those days…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Fight for Academic Freedom, Malawi, Malawi civil societyMittwoch Morgen wusste niemand, ob es tatsächlich zu den im Voraus angekündigten regierungskritischen Demonstrationen in Malawi kommen würde. Doch schnell…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre, Demonstrationen, Lilongwe, Malawi, MzuzuIn rot gekleidete Demonstranten. Leergefegte Straßenzüge. Große Polizeiaufgebote in den Städten. Geschlossene Geschäfte. Am heutigen Morgen begannen die von der…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre, Demonstrationen, DPP, Lilongwe, Malawi, MzuzuEs ist Mittwoch, Tag der großen Demonstrationen in Malawi. Seit Tagen kursieren landesweit Aufrufe zum Protest gegen die aktuelle Politik…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre, Civil Society, Demonstrationen, DPP, Lilongwe, Malawi, Mzuzu, OppositionNachdem neue Aufrufe kursieren, sich an den morgigen “Red Army-Demonstrationen” gegen die Regierung unter Malawis Präsident Bingu zu beteiligen, spitzt…
Blantyre, Demonstrationen, DPP, DPP-Cadets, MalawiAls hätte das kleine Land im Südosten Afrikas nicht schon genug mit einer Monate andauernden Benzinkrise und Wirren um die…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Demonstrationen, DPP, Joyce Banda, Malawi, OppositionSeit nunmehr drei Monaten boykottieren Dozenten und Studenten den Universitätsunterricht in Malawi, um gegen Suspendierungen von Dozenten und Einfrieren von…
Akademische Freiheit, Bingu wa Mutharika, CCASU, Fight for Academic Freedom, Malawi
Sind Artenschutz, Bestandsregulierung und Nachhaltigkeit mit Wirtschaftlichkeit und Nahrungssicherheit vereinbar? Malawi experimentiert mit alternativen Aquakulturen.
Aquakulturen, Fischerei, Malawi, ÜberfischungLaut einer Erklärung des malawischen Präsidenten Bingu wa Mutharika von Anfang Juni sollen die beiden geschlossenen Universitäten Polytechnic und Chancellor…
Akademische Freiheit, Bingu wa Mutharik, Education, Fight for Academic Freedom, MalawiAnfang Februar wurde ein Dozent für Politikwissenschaften am Chancellor College in Zomba, Dr. Blessings Chinsinga, von der Universität suspendiert. Er…
Akademische Freiheit, Bingu wa Mutharika, Education, Fight for Academic Freedom, MalawiEnde Oktober letzten Jahres wurde der Nsanje World Inland Port feierlich von Malawis Präsidenten Bingu wa Mutharika eröffnet. Neben Bingu…
MalawiIn den vergangenen Monaten kam es in Malawi zu einer Kette von Ereignissen, die mittlerweile in eine Diskussion mündete, die…
Akademische Freiheit, Malawi, StudentenprotesteMalawi wird laut einem Bericht von Africa News mit Verweis auf Angaben staatlicher Institutionen auch in diesem Jahr eine gute…
Ernte, Malawi, NahrungsmittelversorgungIm Rahmen eines Austauschprogramms der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) will Bundespräsident Christian Wulff am Mittwoch je 13 deutsche und…
Austauschprogramm, bpb, Bundespräsident, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Ghana, Go Africa, Go Germany, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Simbabwe, Stipendium, Südafrika, Wulff, ZambiaDer deutsche Außenminister Guido Westerwelle wird am 22. Juli nach Angaben des Auswärtigen Amtes am Gipfel der Afrikanischen Union (AU)…
Afrikanische Union, AU, Germany, Kampala, Malawi, Uganda, Westerwelle