No Tune up games for Malawi Flames in readiness for Mali

BLANTYRE (EltasZone) – – Lack of adequate funding and time has forced the Flames not to have a tune-up match ahead of their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying match against Mali, Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has disclosed.  Malawi start their qualifier campaign on September 6 away to Mali and face Ethiopia a week later at Kamuzu stadium.... Read More

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni thinks there are lessons to be learnt from Malawi’s recent elections

A  three man delegation from the Uganda Electoral Commission spent a weeklong visit in Malawi to study voter education processes.  Inspite of flaws in the Malawi recents elections the Ugandans believe there are still positive lessons to be learnt. Uganda has less than two years to prepare for the next  national elections and this time, election officials say they want... Read More

AU summit opens with a Scathing attack on ICC policies Targeting African leaders

Addis Ababa - Ethiopia's foreign minister opened a special African Union summit Friday with a scathing attack on the International Criminal Court, blasting what he said was its “unfair” and “totally unacceptable” treatment of Africa. The special summit comes amid mounting tensions between The Hague-based court and Kenya, whose president and vice-president have been charged with committing crimes against humanity... Read More

African leaders to hold summit October 13 on Kenya’s ICC cases

ATLANTA - African leaders will meet in the Ethiopian capital on October 13 to take a common stance on whether to join Kenya's planned pull-out from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the prosecution of its leaders, officials said on Thursday.  So far there does not seem to be much support for it, but heads of state from the 54-member... Read More

Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete threatens Malawi over lake dispute

LILONGWE(AGV)--Speaking on Thursday during the country's heroes' day celebrations, Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete made a rumbling speech saying its armed forces were ready to protect the country against any foreign threat to its territory, raising the stakes in an escalating border dispute with Malawi. . Read More

Lake Malawi fossil could be oldest dinosaur ever found

LILONGWE: Fossilised bones unearthed by a British palaeontologist in colonial Tanzania in the 1930s may be those of the oldest dinosaur ever found, researchers reported on Wednesday. The bones are either those of the earliest dinosaur or of the closest relative of dinosaurs discovered to date, they said.A denizen of the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, the creature... Read More

Kenya beat Malawi to earn Cecafa semi-final spot

Kenya beat guest team Malawi 1-0 to secure a place in the semi-final of the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Uganda.Veteran striker Mike Baraza scored the only goal of the game 12 minutes after half-time. The Harambee Stars will play Zanzibar in Thursday’s semi-finals of the east and central African regional event.Hosts and defending champions Uganda take on Ethiopia in… Read More

Tanzania asks for mediation over Lake Malawi dispute

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania called on Saturday for an international mediator to resolve a long-standing border dispute with Malawi, conceding the latest talks over territorial rights to Lake Malawi and its potential reserves of oil and gas have failed. The call comes after Malawi accused its neighbour of intimidating its citizens, halting talks with Tanzania over the ownership of... Read More

Malawi, Tanzania Lock Horns Over Lake

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi and Tanzania are expected to hold a high level meeting August 20 on their standoff over oil and gas exploration in and ownership of Lake Malawi. The body of water - also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania - is the third-largest fresh water resource in Africa. The dispute escalated last year when Malawi’s late president... Read More

Malawi, Tanzania fail to Resolve Lake Malawi Oil exploring dispute

MZUZU--Malawi and Tanzania on Saturday announced that they had failed to resolve their dispute on the border of Lake Malawi and agreed to continue to push for a diplomatic and negotiated solution. "After frank and spirited discussions between the two countries, we have concluded that our differences still remain," Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe said at the end of a... Read More