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South African Minister Circulates Warning to Rwanda

March 12, 2014 Global AuthorKagame, Karegeya, Kayumba, Nyamwasa, Pretoria, Rwanda, South Africa

Pretoria, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) South Africa warned today that this country would prevent by all means illegal activities on its national territory by any foreign Government, a statement interpreted by the media as a warning to Rwanda. Diplomatic relations between both African countries have been tense since the past week, when Pretoria and Kigali decreed reciprocal expulsions of diplomats,… Read More

Our Malawi our economy: The road to recovery, Stability and sustainable self-reliance[2014 and beyond]

March 12, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, IMF, Malawi, Malawi's Economy

Malawi as a nation is wallowing in economic dire-straits and is in a crisis situation that needs ingenious and judicious policy reform to avail itself. The IMF and the international community of western donors have injected their infamous so called recovery ‘bitter pills’ but the million dollar question that crops to mind when we reflect upon our situation remains whether... Read More

For Malawi’s President Joyce Banda the plane nightmare that will never go away

March 12, 2014 Global AuthorBilly Mayaya, Bingu Plane, Brown Mpinganjira, Cashgate, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Malawi Graft

BLANTYRE --More pressure is piling on President Joyce Banda and her People's Party led government with human rights activists threatening to engage the Stolen Asset Recovery Unit of (StAR) of the United Nations if government fails to take back the Presidential Jet it traded off in two weeks. This follows similar calls from the Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) on... Read More

Rwanda-SA diplomatic stand-off enters fifth day

March 11, 2014 Global AuthorDiplomatic relations, government, Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, Zuma

Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/CHRIS JACKSON THE US on Monday urged Rwanda to leave exiled opponents in peace as a diplomatic stand-off about attacks on Rwandese in South Africa went into a fifth day. South Africa’s cluster of security ministers was understood to have met for several hours on Monday to weigh a measured response to the… Read More

Women journalists harassed and abused, often by colleagues – survey

March 11, 2014 Global AuthorJournalists, Media, sexism, violence, Women

A member of the local media records a fire at the Comayaguela market in Tegucigalpa February 18, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It’s not news that women journalists are groped and threatened while covering protests and conflict, but often they face this abuse at work, and when they complain, they are told to “grow up”.… Read More

Malawi Finance minister Mkwezalamba contradicts his boss President Joyce Banda on Jet proceeds

March 7, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Malawi Graft, Malawi Prez Jet, Maxwell Mkwezalamba

BLANTYRE(MaraPost)—Malawians are yet to know the truth as to how the proceeds were used as government officials continues giving conflict information with latest being the minister of finance dismissing Joyce Banda’s information that some of the money realized from the Jet sale were used to fund Farm Input Loan Programme (FILP). Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday in the afternoon, President... Read More

African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws

March 7, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica Civil Society, Anti-Gay Measures, Nigeria, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni

As African civil society organisations whose members live and work to improve the lives of all Africans, we condemn in the strongest terms, the disturbing increase in sexuality and gender-related rights violations and abuses, especially those aimed at women and gender non-conforming people, and people in same sex relations including lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identifying African people. Specifically, we condemn... Read More

Rwanda opposition moves to form wide coalition

March 4, 2014 Global AuthorFDU, opposition party, Rwanda, Twagirimungu, Victore Ingabire

. View photo Former Rwanda Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu in Kigali, Rwanda, on August 26, 2003 (AFP Photo/Marco Longari) Brussels (AFP) – Seven Rwandan opposition parties, including former rebels operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, met in Brussels on Saturday in moves to create a broad coalition, former prime minister Faustin Twagiramungu said. “We hope to set… Read More

Convene Parliament or step down, PAC tells Malawi President Joyce Banda

February 26, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, Chimunthu Banda, Dr. Maxwell Mkwezelamba, Fahad Assani, Governor Charles Chuka, Joyce Banda, Malawi

BLANTYRE (AGV)--Public Affairs Committee's (PAC) all-inclusive stakeholders conference ended on Wednesday with delegates unanimously demanding for the convening Parliament by March 10 to discuss the forensic audit report, the sale and whereabouts of proceeds of both the Presidential jet and 'rotten maize'. Delegates were earlier told by Justice Minister Fahad Assani and Finance Minister Dr. Maxwell Mkwezelamba that Parliament would... Read More

Malawi finance minister doesn’t have documented evidence of Presidential Jet sale

February 26, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, Joyce Banda, Malawi Jet, Maxwell Nkwezalamba

BLANTYRE(MaraPost)—Malawi’s Minister of Finance Dr. Maxwell Nkwezalamba proved to the public that what he has been commenting on media about the presidential Jet is just an attempt to defend the People’s Party administration from facing embarrassment as he failed to give evidence to show that government received the money at Public Affairs Committee's (PAC) all-inclusive conference held in Blantyre. . Read More