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Malawi govt. warns Chinese managers against abusing local workers

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BLANTYRE (AGV)-- Following The Daily Times' story that a Chinese company, which is constructing a national stadium in Lilongwe, is abusing local workers at the site, Malawi government has warned that it will not tolerate such acts. Government through the Ministry of Labour has since given the management of the company several recommendations and stressed on the need for the... Read More

Malawi vendors escalate maize shortage in Admarc depots

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Blantyre--As Malawians are still struggling to access maize in many Agricultural Development Marketing Cooperation (ADMARC) depots, it has been established that the situation is being escalated by vendors. A snap survey by Maravi post in Ntcheu and Balaka districts has found that despite the rationing of maize sales to 10 Kilogrammes per customer by Ministry of Agriculture, vendors are still... Read More

Moral Mondays Come to Atlanta, Georgia : Africa can learn !!!

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ATLANTA - The Moral Monday protests that began in North Carolina in 2012 in response to extreme right-wing policies are spreading to Georgia. Over the past year, droves of activists in North Carolina have descended on the state legislature building to demand that lawmakers reverse some of their more brutal policies such as cutting unemployment benefits, refusing to expand Medicaid,... Read More

Lightening kills 8 church-goers in Malawi

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Blantyre, Malawi, Dec. 29 (Raphael Tenthani/MaraviPost) _ An extended prayer service ended tragically in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, when a bolt of lightening struck a congregation, killing at least eight people, including one child, police confirmed Sunday.Police spokesman Kingsley Dandaula told maravipost members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the capital's high density Area 36 were attending an extended... Read More

How A Shooting Exposed The Plunder Of Malawi’s Treasury

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On the night of Friday September 13, 2013,  Paul Mphwiyo, Budget Director in Malawi’s Ministry of Finance, was shot. Armed men were lying in ambush just outside the gate to his home, and fired at the 37-year-old as he drove in. Mphwiyo’s family rushed him to the Area 43 MASM Clinic. It was 11:30 p.m. I happened to be at… Read More
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Malawi Pres Joyce Banda: ‘Competitive primary elections must not divide us’

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BLANTYRE—With only few months to 2014 May tripartite elections, Malawi’s President Joyce Banda says her governing People’s Party (PP) will allow its members to elect candidates considered the best to propel the party’s ideologies of togetherness, equity and fairness, among others. Read More

State House compares Malawi pres. Joyce Banda with Barack Obama

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BLANTYRE(MaraPost)_ Kamuzu Palace, the official home of Malawi president Joyce Banda, says according to twitter analytics tool, Tweetreach, tweets which contained the hashtag #joycebanda alone gained over 1,649,702 impressions or opportunities to see during Banda's speech at former South African president Nelson Mandela’s state funeral on Saturday in Qunu. More than 2 million people were directly involved in the conversation... Read More

How Madiba influenced the arts

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BLANTYRE(MaraPost)--There could hardly be any other contemporary icon from the arts to politics that every author, sculptor, film producer or musician wants to do something about than Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who died aged 95 on December 5 in the leafy Houghton suburb of Johannesburg and is scheduled to be interred in his homeland on Qunu in the Eastern Cape Sunday.... Read More

Malawi Pres. Joyce Banda’s eulogy at Mandela’s burial in Qunu

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  I stand before you today to join you, the people of South Africa, and the world, to mourn the loss of a great leader: Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela. I join you, the people of this rainbow nation, to celebrate a life of one of Africa’s unique leaders who gallantly fought for freedom and peace for this great country and the world. Read More

Arms firm link to charity that paid PR costs of Malawi president’s interview

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In email accidentally sent to Daily Telegraph, director of Africa's biggest arms firm instructs President Joyce Banda on how to handle media Questions have been asked over the role in Malawi of a charitable foundation linked to an African arms company whose director is running a PR campaign by President Joyce Banda to win back foreign donors following a corruption... Read More
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