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MPs pocketing allowances without attending plenary
A growing number of legislators have been absconding sittings of Parliament in the ongoing budget meeting despite pocketing allowances for nine…
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Malawi electoral reforms target next House meet
Scrapping off the first-past-the-post electoral system and other reforms aimed at improving legitimacy of the country’s election system and the…
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Department of Statutory Corporations toothless—MP
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ntchisi North Boniface Kadzamira (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has said the Department of Statutory Corporations lacks…
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Malawi lawmakers pass K36bn floods loan
Malawi Parliament on Tuesday authorised government to obtain a loan from the World Bank amounting to K36 billion (about $80…
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Business News
Taml donates tea to MPs
Tea Association of Malawi (Taml), a representative body of tea estates, last Wednesday gave 50 kilogrammes (kg) of tea to…
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Malawi Budget 2015: MPs ambush Goodall on MSB sale
Opposition members of Malawi Parliament (MPs) today ambushed Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe to explain developments…
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Business
Style versus substance as Chakwera responds to Mutharika’s major speech
As expected, President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday delivered his second State of the Nation Address as he opened the fourth…
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Malawi Budget 2015: Chakwera brands APM ‘babysitter’
…Punches holes into his State of the Nation Address Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera yesterday launched a scathing…
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UDF respects Lucius’ decision
United Democratic Front (UDF) says it will not take any action against its leader in Parliament, Lucius Banda, over his…
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UDF MPs move to govt benches
There is nothing wrong, says Speaker Finally, United Democratic Front (UDF) members of Parliament (MPs) have been given the go-ahead…
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Exclusive Interview: MPs should not represent their own interests–Kasaila
Leader of the House FRANCIS KASAILA talks to Weekend Nation on next week’s budget sitting and other issues expected to…
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Development
Of women’s performance in politics
With mixed feelings, I keep reading the news that women did not do well in the May 2014 Tripartite Elections,…
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Parliament staff reject 18% pay hike offer
Parliament Secretariat staff yesterday disrupted business on the second day of the Mid-Term Budget Review meeting when they staged a…
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Opposition parties talk tough on budget review
As the Malawi National Assembly resumes sitting today to review the first six months of implementing the 2014/15 National Budget,…
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Parliament cracks whip on ministers, MPs in illegal timber trade
Some of the latest and most robust cutters and saws are frantically found in forest reserves across the country as…
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Parliament rejects govt pay offer
As the public sector salary hike demand craze spreads like wildfire, employees of Parliament Secretariat have rejected government’s proposed increment…
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Health Ministry decries funding shortfalls
The Ministry of Health has decried the shortage of funding for the health sector to provide all medicines and medical…
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Parliament’s PAC brands FIU toothless
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has described the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as toothless in its approach to…
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Katopola’s K423m smile
Government has stopped paying embattled Clerk of Parliament (CoP) Matilda Katopola the salary she was receiving while on leave and…
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Treasury grasps straws as Parliament staff demand pay hike
From the look of things, it never rains, but pours for Treasury as at the time it is agonising over…
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