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Malawi researchers to tap into GSK’s £4m for cancer, diabetes

November 14, 2014 Global Authorcancer Research, Dr. Mike Strange, Malawi

Health researchers from Malawi are in line to tap from a £4m first round of funding that one of the world’s leading pharmaceuticals firms GSK has made available for eight African countries to research into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. GSK said on Friday it has launched the first call for proposals for its... Read More

Lesotho Chieftainship Case Goes to the African Commission

September 9, 2014 Global AuthorAfrican Commission, Chieftainship, Lesotho, Masupha, SALC

9 September 2014, Maseru–Today, Senate Masupha, the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Lesotho) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) submitted a complaint to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) challenging a law providing for male-only succession to chieftainship in Lesotho. Masupha, the first born child of a chief, is challenging section 10 of the Chieftainship Act,... Read More

Malawian Man arrested for cutting off wife’s ears over a domestic dispute

September 1, 2014 Global AuthorFamily Violence, Malawi

DEDZA, MALAWI (AGV)--Police in Malawi's central district of Dedza have arrested a 24 year-old man for allegedly cutting off the ears of his wife following a family squabble. The man, identified as Gama Bano from Bunya village in Traditional Authority Kamenyagwaza in the district has been remanded to Dedza prison. . Read More

Malawi’s outspoken MP Jessie Kabwila wants Mutharika to fire greedy Ministers

August 28, 2014 Global AuthorGeorge Mkondiwa, Jessie Kabwila, Malawi, MCP, Peter Mutharika, Willie Samute

(AGV)—Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Jessie Kabwila has asked president Peter Mutharika to fire his cabinet ministers for proposing a 583 percent pay hike which would see them carting home K3.5 million a month. According to Kabwila, the ministers’ proposal is a clear sign that they are insensitive and extravagant; as such they cannot be trusted with the country’s limited... Read More

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima to tee-off in support of ailing journalist Limbani Moya

August 27, 2014 Global AuthorAnthony Kasunda, Limbani Moya, Malawi, Saulos Chilima, South Africa

Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima has joined hands with Friends of Limbani, a taskforce of professionals in various fields, to raise funds in support of ailing veteran journalist Limbani Moya. Moya was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2012 and has since then been undergoing treatment at various hospitals in the country and South Africa. He currently goes for dialysis at... Read More

Continuing Clamp Down on Free Speech in Swaziland

August 27, 2014 Global AuthorBarack Obama, Barnabus Sibusiso Dlamini, Freedom of Press, Ncongwane, SALC, Sipho Gumedze, Swaziland

Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) expresses its deepest concern at reports from Swaziland that Vincent Ncongwane, the secretary general of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), was prevented from speaking at a gathering in Matsapha yesterday. Read More

Malawians react with anger at ministers’ proposal to hike salary to K3.5 million

August 26, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, Malawi, Peter Mutharika

BLANTYRE, Aug 26: Ordinary Malawians contacted by our reporters have reacted angry to a proposal that ministers to hike their salaries, describing it as “pure madness” by some and “daylight robbery” by others. The ministers, through a memo written by acting chief secretary Willie Samute to President APM, sought to raise the salary of a minister from K600 to K3.5... Read More

Joyce Banda lost elections because she took people’s goodwill for granted

August 20, 2014 Global AuthorJimmy Kainja, Joyce Banda, Malawi Elections, Mutharika, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki

William Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC Recently wrote a piece for The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” on why he thinks “ Obama has let Africa down.” Unfortunately, there is still a section of Africans who think Obama owes the continent something simply because his father was from Kenya. Yet, Obama is... Read More

Malawi’s Mutharika rules out war with Tanzania over disputed lake but insists ‘lake issue is non-negotiable’

August 12, 2014 Global AuthorJoyce Banda, Kikwete, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Peter Mutharika, Tanzania, United nations

Blantyre, Malawi, Aug. 12 (Raphael Tenthani/AGV) _ Malawi President Peter Mutharika Tuesday ruled out going to war with neighbouring Tanzania over the disputed border over Lake Malawi but insisted the issue of the lake, Africa's third largest fresh-water lake, is non-negotiable. Read More

In Malawi mysterious fire guts electoral body warehouse as recount fight rage on

July 15, 2014 Global Authorlilongwe, Malawi, Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Malawi Electoral Commission, MEC, Paul Kagame, Peter Mutharika, Willie Kalonga

Blantyre, Malawi, July 15 (AGV) _ A mysterious fire in the wee hours of Tuesday gutted a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in the capital, Lilongwe, reducing to ashes millions worth of electoral materials. Crucially, some of the destroyed materials were ballot papers which were subject for a recount in a disputed parliamentary result in one of the constituencies in... Read More

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