Politics
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Clinton’s loud whispers
Why was Malawi, a country at the peripheral of global strategic importance, chosen to be among the seven African nations…
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Uladi Mussa
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, I would appreciate that there is an acute lapse of security in the…
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‘Councillors crucial to development’
Some people have argued that the country would be wasting money holding Local Government Elections because the work of councillors…
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Assests: To declare or not
If Ralph Kasambara was South Africa’s Attorney General in 1993, and, faced with public fury to have Nelson Mandela released…
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Do political parties need ideologies?
In the 2009 General Elections, contesting parties came up with political blueprints or ideologies only a few weeks into the…
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‘Abstention should not be an option for MPs’
From the failed Third Term bid through the Flag Change to the Injunctions Bill, cases of MPs abstaining from voting…
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Peter Mutharika 2
Acting president of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), I would realise that there is a lot of groundwork that my…
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Cycling local governance
Political campaign periods are the most deceptive moments in history. One by one aspiring candidates come weighed with words of promises. They…
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Madam Joyce Banda
President of the Republic of Malawi, I would realise that much as I have achieved in just over 100 days…
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Joyce Banda’s 100 days
Malawi President Joyce Banda has clocked 100 days in office. She was sworn in on April 7 2012 following the…
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Will these arrests ever stop?
Most Malawians were relieved when Joyce Banda took over as President after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika…
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‘Strikers should follow procedure’
There are a number of strikes in various district hospitals including Zomba, Thyolo, Neno and Balaka where staff are mostly…
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A police officer
I would understand that by lifting the ‘shoot to kill’ order, the Home Affairs Minister is not necessarily telling me…
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‘Our understanding of human rights is limited’
Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) together with the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) brought together legal…
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Setting the pace for 2014 free and fair elections
Since the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections, National Initiative for Civic Education (Nice) as a joint project of the European…
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AU summit flop blessing in disguise—Kaferapanjira
Many businesspeople, including hotels and car hire service providers have been disappointed with the cancellation of the African Union summit,…
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Henry Chimunthu Banda
Speaker of the National Assembly, I would apply Section 65 and act on MPs deemed to have crossed the floor.…
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Is donor aid retrogressing Africa?
We thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail,†wrote John Donne, a 14th century English poet. That metaphor resonates…
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The trouble with African Union
It’s not about Malawi not hosting or Ethiopia hosting al-Bashir. It is about thousand lives that continue to be lost…
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Transition without transformation?
 Suddenly, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has resumed playing Lucius Banda’s songs. That is not all. Apart from numerous…
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