Political Index Feature
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Rapist in police uniform
On December 12, three teenagers from the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre set off for overnight prayers in Bvumbwe just…
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Reflections: One year on
The economic and social situation in Malawi is not in intensive care and governance is not at its worst situation.…
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Rewards or muting critics?
Is the deployment of human rights defenders to diplomatic missions a reward for mass protests that took down Peter Mutharika’s…
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A Canaan too far
Tthis week, President Lazarus Chakwera and his nine-party Tonse Alliance spanned a year in power. The rise of Africa’s first…
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Malawi needs fairer, humane refugee policy
MICHAEL KAIYATSAHuman Rights Activist In a few days, the government’s ultimatum for all refugees scattered across the country to return…
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Opposition to abortion bill is foreign-backed
Local Catholic bishops received money from their US counterparts to lobby Parliament to reject a proposed law that would allow…
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Who will save the women?
They know women are dying in large numbers due to backstreet abortion which the Ministry of Health wanted ended when…
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The key is with APM
Q : What do you make of the new turn in the DPP wrangles? Thindwa: Unfortunately he does not want…
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Covid-19 rules haunt the poor
In 2017, a vendor moved the Constitutional Court to scrape a colonial law made by Britain in 1924 that empowered…
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Inside Malawi’s new vision
More precious than our children are the children of our children, so goes an Egyptian saying. Despite all the global…
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African agenda in 2021
The past year will, of course, be remembered for the Covid-19 pandemic. Many African countries have handled the public health…
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Pandemic of human rights abuses
This year will be forever associated with one story that affected every single country in the world: the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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Peak at Ziyaye and politics
May 5 2001. Limbe Cathedral, Blantyre. A sunny afternoon it was when Archbishop of Blantyre Tarsizius Ziyaye was consecrated to…
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Checking accountability in civil society
Malawi has at least 500 registered non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) most of which are funded by…
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From Mangochi with love
The difference between the DPP’s vanquished misrule and the current experiment—for its too early days to call it anything else—is…
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DPP rebirth or death
Since Peter Mutharika lost the June 23 repeat presidential election, his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been a house at…
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Politicking with wombs
In Malawi, mentions of abortion spark a fierry religious backlash.Recently, religious leaders have been rallying ‘God-fearing Malawians’ to warn their…
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Chaos in cities
Street vending has returned to your city with unmitigated force 14 years after the demolition mission code-named Operation Dongosolo. Our…
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Why Sadc isn’t Ecowas
Why is Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) slow to tackle political crisis among its member States? A Peace and Security…
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Tackling Covid-19 ills
Senior Chief Kachindamoto of Dedza has ordered village chiefs to dissolve all the child marriages that took place since the…
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