Tag: Lilongwe

Promoting disability rights in Malawi

Published on July 25, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

People with hearing impairments in Malawi bemoan the failure to include the use of sign language on state-owned TV. People […]

Malawi on the road to recovery – but the hard part’s just beginning

Published on July 24, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

In just a few months, Malawi’s new president has undone much of the damage caused by her predecessor by implementing […]

Peter Mutharika apologises for DPP’s crimes against the media

Published on July 24, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president, Peter Mutharika, has apologised for the mistakes the party made when it was in […]

IMF to table US$157 million credit to Malawi

Published on July 23, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

International Monetary Fund (IMF) is today expected to table a US$157 million credit to Malawi under a three-year Extended Credit […]

Rape cases on the rise in Malawi

Published on July 23, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The wave of crime that has terrorised Malawi’s cities has not spared girls as 23 girls between the ages of […]

Malawi aid champions Joyce Banda’s agenda

Published on July 23, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Erieka Bennett, head of the AU Diaspora Forum, says Malawi’s Joyce Banda represents the type of leadership that Africa needs […]

Kamuzu College of Nursing students call off hunger strike

Published on July 23, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Students at Kamuzu College of Nursing in Lilongwe have resumed taking food after they went without it on Saturday to […]

President Banda warns on passport fraud

Published on July 23, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi’s Immigration Department must walk its talk about sealing the loopholes that have allowed foreigners to acquire the Malawian passport. […]

Govt gives illegal entrants 12 months to leave

Published on July 22, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

In greeting to several concerns from a ubiquitous public, supervision skeleton to impulse a whip on bootleg entrants by deporting […]

Joyce Banda ready to part ways with the luxurious jet, flies in Air Malawi’s ATR

Published on July 21, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

President Joyce Banda yesterday flew on a scheduled Air Malawi ATR 42 flight from Blantyre to Lilongwe, a move that […]

Minibus owners questioned for charging high fares despite fuel price reduction

Published on July 21, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Minibus passengers in Lilongwe have accused the leadership of the Minibus owners association of Malawi for continuing to charge old […]

Lilongwe vendors cause riot

Published on July 20, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

A joint operation by Lilongwe City Council and Vendors Association officials to stop business people from selling their merchandise along […]

Mutharika appears before Robert Chasowa Inquiry

Published on July 20, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president Peter Mutharika on Thursday appeared before the Commission of Inquiry set up to get […]

‘The economy has improved’ – Lipenga

Published on July 19, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Finance Minister Ken Lipenga says the country’s economy has improved, citing increased foreign currency reserves and steady supplies fuel as […]

Canadians transform lives of Malawian girls

Published on July 18, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Hidden in a rural and poverty stricken area 30 kilometres north west of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, is a Canadian sponsored […]

NGOs fault Joyce Banda’s govt 100 days

Published on July 18, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Some NGOs have expressed worry that Malawi President Joyce Banda’s administration has taken the same path of using the Anti-Corruption […]

Eunice Chipangula speaks on measures to cushion Urban Migration

Published on July 18, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi has called for measures to cushion the effects of urban migration that piling pressure on land resource as more […]

DPP’s Peter Mutharika trashes coup plot

Published on July 16, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Acting President for the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Peter Mutharika has described as untrue reports that there were […]