National News

Canada applauds JB on repealing bill targeting gays, lesbians

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has been very outspoken in condemning countries, particularly those in Africa, who have sought to limit […]

Ligoya now Malawi’s High Commissioner to India

Barely few weeks after he was fired as central bank chief, Dr Perks M Ligoya can now start mastering diplomacy […]

Lack of space worsens in Malawi prisons, worries authorities

Authorities have bemoaned over-crowding in prisons which they say is responsible for many communicable diseases. Prisons’ Commissioner for Operations Kennedy […]

Court frees G4S guards who insulted Bingu wa Mutharika

A court in Lilongwe has freed five guards working for Group Four Securicor Company (G4) from state claims that they […]

Govt hires Malawi News Editor Steve Nhlane as Presidential Press Secretary

President Joyce Banda has hired Malawi News Editor Steve Nhlane as Presidential Press Secretary. Nhlane will also combine the role […]

Mixed reactions over Malawi’s plan to repeal anti-gay law

Repealing a colonial-era ban on homosexuality may please foreign donors, intent on protecting democratic rights of minorities. But it causes […]

Chief Justice Munlo denies being part of coup plot

Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo, through his lawyers Patrice Nkhono and Samuel Tembenu, has dared critics to formally lodge and substantiate […]

Airtel Malawi hands over first pick-up in Yabooka promotion

50 year old Clement Mukhumbwa, retired secondary school teacher at Chitipa Boma on Friday became the first recipient of the […]

Joyce Banda to reinstate good political and economic governance

President Joyce Banda on Friday addressed Parliament for the first time since assuming office spelling out her dream for a […]

Lesbians engage in BT, immune to arrest as Mw Penal Code only prohibits gays

Malawi police are likely to arrest two lesbians who engaged in Blantyre recently, a second development in three years after […]