Henry Mhango

A controversial Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Jane Ansa,  made her first public appearance on Monday amid tight security, when she opened an Annual General Conference for the Electoral Commissions Forum for SADC countries, being held in Blantyre a commercial city in southern Malawi. Ansa who is the central cause of the post […]

Malawians living in Karonga and Chitipa districts on the border with Tanzania have been engulfed with fears and panic following the Ebora outbreak in neibouring Tanzania. A person is reported to have died of Ebora and two others affected by the virus  in the Tanzanian capital Dar es salaam, but the country’s authorities are reported […]

There was a commotion in Lilongwe capital city, Malawi when security team for members of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition who are coordinating post-election protests, captured a suspected Malawi National Intelligence Officer, alleged to have been taking part in the petrol bombing of the coalition members property. The coalition members and some opposition politicians have […]

President Arthur Peter Mutharika has commended World Bank for its continued support towards Malawi’s economic growth for the past 50 years. President Mutharika said this at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre on Wednesday during an audience with high-level World Bank delegation. The president said the support that World Bank has been rendering in Malawi is a […]

Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has said he would intervene the country’s escalating political tension after court’s decision on a case where opposition parties are challenging the May elections results. The Southen African nation has seen political unrest since the announcement of the May 21 elections results, where Mutharika was re-elected for a second term. Some […]

One of the giant entrepreneurship companies in Malawi, PIM , has urged the government and it’s critics to come together and find a lasting solution to the country’s political impasse which he says, has greatly affected the private sector in the sub-Saharan country. Malawi has been locked up into political unrest since the announcement of […]

Amnesty International has demanded the unconstitutional release of a Tanzanian Investigative Journalist Joseph Gandye who published an investigative piece on police brutality in Iringa, central Tanzania. Responding to the arrest of journalist Joseph Gandye, who had been investigating allegations of brutality by the Tanzanian police, Amnesty International’s Director for East Africa, the Horn and the […]

Malawi Police have arrested their most wanted Chinese suspected wildlife criminal. Yunhua Lin was arrested by the police in Mzuzu city in the south-east of the country’s biggest Nyika National Park, in northern Malawi. Thomeck Nyaude, the Deputy Spokesperson for Malawi police Service said the suspect was found in possession of pangolin scales, rhino tooth, 10 KG […]

Protestors of the Malawi election results have promised they would next week close the country’s borders and airports as a next move to force the Electoral Commission chairperson Jane Ansa to step down. Jane Ansa who is accused by the protesters of mismanaging the elections has challenged not to resign. Protest Organisers, Human Rights Defenders […]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Zimbabwean government’s cracking down on peaceful protesters, as souring economic woes continue to affect millions of the once “milk and honey” nation. Police dispersed thousands of citizens gathered in the capital Harare this morning, to protest against the economic woes, following a High Court decision […]

Malawi’s Former Vice President Khumbo Hestings Kachali, has asked President Peter Mutharika to wake up and provide solutions to the country’s political impasse before the situation goes out of hand. The former Vice President concerns follow Mutharika’s silence on continued post-election protests in the country. Some Malawians have been protesting against management of the May […]

Malawi’s Lands, Housing and Urban Development Minister, Symon Vuwa Kaunda has warned to fire the Ministry’s officials involved in corruption in land sale, as the country’s President Peter Mutharika challenges to end the vice within his last five years term. Mutharika has recently claimed that corruption is one of the main evils retarding the sub-Saharan […]

Malawi government through it’s Attorney General has applied for an injunction to stop post-election protests against the Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission, Jane Ansa. The Sub Saharan nation has seen political unrest since the announcement of the May 2019 elections results where President Peter Mutharika, was declared a winner. The demonstrators led by Human […]

Malawi’s First Lady Getrude Mutharika is facing pressure to refund an estimate of £80 000 taxpayers money used for her trip to Britain to attend her son’s graduation. The Malawi President’s wife is reported to have been accompanied by a large group of aids to the UK and was sleeping in expensive hotels booked by […]

Political and social scientists in Malawi have asked President Peter Mutharika to intervene in the southern African nation’s political standoff before the situation goes out of control. Malawi has been on fire since the announcement of the May 21 general elections results where Mutharika was declared a winner. While human rights activists and other quarters […]

Mediation talks between Malawi’s Former President Bakili Muluzi and leadership of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition to find a civil solution on the country’s political unrest have failed to bear fruits, after the coalition members maintained to continue holding protests untill Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Jane Ansa resign. The country’s first multiparty […]

Unknown people have petrol bombed an office for the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in the Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre, an incident analysts say will just fuel the post election instability that has characterised the country. The party’s President Lazarus Chakwera who is challenging President Mutharika’s legitimacy in court implicate Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party […]

Police in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe have arrested 15 people  allegedly being involved in violence during the post elections protests held across the country on Friday but left out the ruling party supporters beating up protesters in Blantyre City. Thousands of Malawians led by human rights activists took to the streets of major cities in the […]

Thousands of Malawians on Friday, took to the streets for another protest against their government, and force Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Jane Ansa to resign who for allegedly failing to properly manage the May 21, 2019 general elections. The protesters led by a grouping of Human Rights Activists known as Human Rights […]

Malawi’s two main opposition political parties challenging the May 21, general elections’ results have indirectly embarked on campaign trail in anticipation of a “re-run” as the public is anxiously waiting for court ruling in a case in which the two parties want the results nullified. Lazarus Chakwera, the President of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and […]