Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya has donated US$1 million (KShs 91 million) to Malawi flood victims, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho said. Sending the condolences to the victims and wishing a quick recovery to those affected, … Read More
Paul Mphwiyo Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Saturday former Ministry of Finance Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on ‘cashgate’-related charges. Mphwiyo was arrested alongside his wife, Thandizo. “The Anti-Corruption Bureau has on, October 18, 2014, arrested Mr. Paul Mphwiyo, the … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Although Malawi’s law does not specify that only lawyers should head the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau, having a legal mind at the corruption-busting body would be ideal, top Malawian legal activist Justin Dzonzi said. Dzonzi, executive director … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Over half a billion Malawi Kwacha (about US$1.25 million) was recovered in the wee hours last Thursday after a gang of smartly-dressed robbers burst into one of the major banks in the northern city of Mzuzu. … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – In Malawi, a magistrates’ court in the capital, Lilongwe, released on bail businessman Oswald Lutepo, the main suspect of the systematic looting of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’. Lutepo was re-arrested on Sunday after he confessed in … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Police in the central Malawi district of Kasungu arrested Sunday Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in the systematic plunder of government money, dubbed ‘cashgate’. This follows Lutepo’s allegations that senior government officials were behind the scandal in … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Africa’s second female President Joyce Banda, smarting from a crushing defeat at the hands of her predecessor’s younger brother, grudgingly conceded defeat Saturday after failing to nullify the electoral process. On the same day, Peter Mutharika … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will announce the results of last Tuesday’s closely-fought election on Friday. “The law requires the Commission to announce its determination of the national election results within eight days of … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Peter Mutharika, candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Tuesday’s Malawi presidential elections, could become the next president if unofficial exit polls hold, booting out his archrival President Joyce Banda. Unofficial results, monitored from the … Read More
Malemia, Malawi (PANA) – Voting has opened in Malawi’s fifth elections since the advent of multi-party politics in the country in 1994. Voting started at 6 a.m. (local time) in most polling centres but some centres delayed opening due to … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Malawi President Joyce Banda’s convoy came under attack Sunday when she took her re-election campaign to her main challenger’s area. Banda was in Goliati village in the tea-growing district of Thyolo where Peter Mutharika, presidential candidate … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – A British-funded forensic audit into the massive plunder of the Malawi government coffers has uncovered that over 13 billion Malawi kwacha (over US$ 30 million) was looted by politicians, business persons and civil servants. The audit, … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – The presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Malawi’s 20 May elections, Prof. Peter Mutharika, has picked marketer Saulos Chilima as his running mate. Chilima, 41, is the Managing Director of the mobile … Read More
President Joyce Banda PANA Blantyre, Malawi – The European Union (EU) delegation in Lilongwe and the Malawi mission to the EU in Brussels have denied reports that President Joyce Banda cancelled her trip to Brussels last week because she was … Read More
Priscilla Takondwa Semphere and author Chimamanda Adichie, Photo:chroniclesofagappie PANA, Raphael Tenthani Blantyre, Malawi – She’s is only 19 but she has just published a book. OK, several years ago Nigerian magical realist writer Ben Okri wrote his first book at … Read More
Malawi president Joyce Banda PANA ZOMBA, Malawi – Malawi president Joyce Banda on Wednesday registered as a voter ahead of the 2014 elections in her rural constituency of Domasi in the eastern district of Zomba, some 100 kilometres east of … Read More
