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Category: Southern Africa

Southern Africa, southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Africa Southern Africa World Zambia 

Zambia’s former president Kenneth Kaunda dies aged 97

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , ,
– – Zambia’s former president, Kenneth Kaunda who was the first to serve as the country’s president after leading it to independence has died. He died on Thursday at the age of 97 after he was admitted to a military hospital in Lusaka. The former president was being treated for Pneumonia while on admission, according to the government. Kenneth Kaunda… Read More
Africa Mozambique Southern Africa World 

Mozambique’s female inmates forced into prostitution by prison staff

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , ,
– – Female prisoners in Mozambique are being forced into prostitution by staff of prison facilities, according to Anti-corruption organisation the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP). The group said for years prisoners from Ndlavela Women’s Penitentiary in the capital, Maputo, have been taken to nearby guest houses to work as prostitutes for wealthy clients. These details were revealed by investigative… Read More
Africa Namibia Southern Africa World 

Covid-19: Namibia’s capital Windhoek on two-week lockdown

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , ,
– – Namibia’s government has announced a two-week lockdown of the capital Windhoek to fight the spike in Coronavirus pandemic. The city has recorded more than half of the Covid infections in the entire country. On Tuesday evening President Hage Geingob announced tighter measures to limit the spread of virus after recent spike in infections and deaths. In a televised… Read More
Human Rights Zambia 

Zambia: The Disastrous 10 Years under The Patriotic Front (PF)

Village Reporter, ,
By Henry Kyambalesa The last 10 years can be summed up plainly as having been disastrous for our be-loved country and its people. The Patriotic Front (PF) assumed the reins of power in September 2011. To date, the ruling political party’s performance has not only been mediocre but shameful and inexcusable. According to the World Bank, our country ranks among… Read More
Africa Southern Africa World Zambia 

Zambia’s President doing well after collapsing at public event

Elwin Mandowa, , , , ,
– – Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has assured citizens that he is well after collapsing while attending a public event. He was presiding over the national defence day on Sunday when “he experienced sudden dizziness” in the capital, Lusaka. In a statement, the Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Miti indicated that the president “is well and has continued to discharge his… Read More
Leaders Malawi 

By Now Peter Mutharika is saying “I told you so” – Idriss Nassar

Village Reporter,
By Idriss Nassar Betrayal is when those that came to power through a revolution suddenly embrace and become comfortable in what they (seemingly) vehemently opposed not too long ago—grand theft, corruption, looting, cronyism, love of power for power’s sake, unexplained sudden wealth, primitive accumulation, hostility and intolerance toward opposing views, state capture by a coterie of dubious characters, hero worshipping,… Read More
Malawi Opinions 

Chakwera is leader without substance, presiding over a yet another corrupt Malawian regime – Professor Danwood M Chirwa

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Opinion by Professor Danwood M Chirwa The emerging revelations around NOCMA oil procurement scandal are deeply shocking but not unexpected.  NOCMA’s de facto CEO’s meticulous account and documentation of the interference by political agents in the procurement process brings to light the anatomy of corruption in Malawi. It shows that parastatals are not independent and the invidious position that management… Read More
Expelled Chrissie Kaponda Malawi OP-ED 

Talking Blues: Mr President, spare us from scandalous diplomats

Global Author,
By Mapwiya Muulupale “A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron” – Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. He transformed the Soviet Union from a peasant society like ours into an industrial and military superpower. However, his reign of terror killed millions of Russians. That… Read More
Malawi Opinions 

Opinion: Keeping Malawi’s Tripartite Elections Calendar Inviolable

Global Author,
By Maxwell Chisala Although Malawi’s constitutional-experiment survived its biggest test arising from the now-confirmed bungled 2019 Presidential election, Malawi’s ballot-box democracy experiment will continue smarting from Parliament’s self-serving legislative decision to extend its current tenure beyond the constitutionally prescribed five-year term, long after books on ‘widespread, systematic and grave’ irregularities and anomalies that seriously compromised the integrity of the results… Read More
Africa South Africa Southern Africa World 

37-year-old South African woman gives birth to 10 babies

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , , ,
– – A South African woman has set a new record by giving birth to 10 babies at a go on Monday night in Pretoria. Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37 thus sets a new Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé, who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month. Sithole gave birth to her decuplets, two more than… Read More