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Govt orders AG to stop payouts to dismissed top government officials

The government has ordered the Attorney General (AG) to review all cases, where it agreed to pay out millions of […]

MPs trying to blackmail Joyce Banda – state house

The State House has complained that Members of Parliament are blackmailing President Joyce Banda by stalling parliamentary deliberations in order […]

Maize smugglers thrive as desperation deepens

For as little as K100 (28 US cents), some police officers are selling their souls and that of hungry Malawians […]

Malawi not happy with Tanzania official in Lake Malawi dispute

MALAWI has expressed its displeasure that the executive secretary of the Forum for Former Heads of State, which is currently […]

Malawi to have a heroes acre

President Joyce Banda on Sunday announced plans to set up a Heroes’ Acre in Nkhata Bay as a way of […]

Ntaba and five others sue govt for unfair dismissal

Government may cough millions of tax-payers’ money if five aides of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika succeed in their […]

President Joyce Banda, Finance Minister Ken Lipenga In MK52 Billion Corruption Scandal

As Malawi’s civil servants were parading in various streets of the country crying for their pay-hike, some cabinet ministers were […]

HIV Cure Found: Child born with HIV cured by US doctors

Medical history made with first ‘functional cure’ of unnamed two-year-old born with the virus but now needing no medication. A […]

Malawi legalises abortion

Members of Parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed the Gender Equality Bill into law, which seeks, among other things, to empower […]

Living on dog, human, horse meat

If ever this country’s leadership has given us, plebeians, a raw deal, it can be argued that it cannot be […]

ESCOM to connect 18,000 applicants

Malawi’s sole electricity provider Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is yet to provide electricity to over 18,000 applicants some […]

Malawi govt to refurbish prisons’ kitchens

Prisoners in Malawi are expected to be receiving their daily meals on time following the government’s decision to refurbish kitchens […]

4 arrested for selling ARVs illegally

Police in Blantyre are keeping in custody four men for illegal selling of Anti-Retroviral drugs. The four were allegedly found […]

Malawi president beamed live on National TV falling down

It was sad for viewers who were watching a live broadcast of President Joyce Banda’s rally in Mzuzu who was […]

Of Prof. Peter Mutharika boarding a minibus

Finally the campaign has started. Pointers are all there that we are in for a ‘brutal’ campaign for the 2014 […]

All set for Blue Night in Lilongwe

All roads lead to Area 18 Lodge in Lilongwe tonight where the Friends of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have […]

Mixed views on Gender Bill

The Gender Bill, which was passed into law on Wednesday, has drawn mixed views with a legal activist doubting that […]

Government worsening kwacha plunge

Over-expenditure in government has been blamed for worsening the depreciation of the Malawi kwacha whose rollercoaster fall saw it slipping […]