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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.

Malawi President Banda pleads with Pastors to pray for peace to avoid Rwanda like Genocide

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BLANTYRE (AGV)--Malawi President Joyce Banda has urged Pastors fraternal to pray for peace of the nation as political parties are busy campaigning for tripartite election.  President Banda also said there is need to pray for the media in the country to only present stories not containing hate speeches to avoid inciting violence.  The Malawi leader spoke Wednesday evening at Kamuzu... Read More

Zimbabwe Supreme Court to rule on access to lawful abortion

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Harare, 24 March – On Tuesday 25th March, the Zimbabwe Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in a landmark sexual and reproductive rights case brought by the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA).  The ZWLA argued that the government should pay maintenance for a child who was born because the authorities failed to provide the mother – a rape survivor –... Read More

Court orders Botswana government to provide HIV treatment to non-citizen prisoners

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Gaborone, 18 March – In another important legal victory for human rights in Botswana, the High Court in Gaborone yesterday ordered the government to provide HIV treatment to all non-citizen prisoners.  Prior to the court order, the government supplied non-citizen prisoners with treatment for opportunistic infections but not for HIV – leading to a significant deterioration in their health. Non-citizen... Read More

SA deports Malawians for staying illegally as more wait at detention immigration centre

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BLANTYRE--Malawians who were staying in South Africa without valid travel documents have arrived in the country following the sweeping exercise which is taking place in richest African country.  Malawi’s Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala has confirmed the development. According to Mankhwala, the deportees were staying in South Africa without ‘valid work permits and travel documents. . Read More

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

Malawi’s Information Minister Brown Mpinganjira accuses foreign envoys of support for mass protests

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BLANTYRE(MaraPost)—Malawi’s Minister of Information and Civic Education, Evangelist Brown Mpinganjira, has accused some foreign envoys in the country of being behind the planning of the anti Joyce Banda administration mass protests slated for Thursday 27 February 2014. Minister Brown Mpinganjira told ZBS on Tuesday that s the reasons cited for the demonstrations scheduled for February 27 are not valid but... Read More

Major Boost for Free Speech in Zambia as Court aquits HIV activist

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Lusaka, 25 February – After a lengthy legal process, the renowned Zambian human rights and HIV activist, Paul Kasonkomona, was acquitted today by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court on charges relating to comments he made on television in support of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people – a ruling that provides a major boost to freedom of... Read More
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