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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika said he was in the process of procuring a boat from South Africa to ferry passengers travelling between the mainland district of Nkhata Bay and the twin islands of Likoma and Chizumulu located in Lake Malawi. Speaking Tuesday afternoon during his developmental tour of the islands, the president said the ferry will reduce transport problems which the people of the...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Text of unattributed report entitled "Committee says 1.5 million face food shortage" published by widely-read, privately-owned Malawian daily newspaper The Nation website on 7 October As President Bingu wa Mutharika continues to get international recognition for improving the country's food situation, an estimated 1.5 million people in six districts could face food shortage this year and need urgent...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has pledged to embark on a "green belt" programme to enable the country, in the long run, to say goodbye to hunger and international food aid. "Malawi appeals to the G-8 countries to support us to create a green belt around our lakes and along our rivers to irrigate land up to 20 kilometres from the shores. The Malawi government plans to grow a lot of rice, wheat,...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The Malawi High Court sitting in Blantyre has lifted all bail conditions placed on former President Bakili Muluzi, who is accused by the government of President Bingu wa Mutharika of allegedly committing treason by trying to overthrow him, APA learnt here Tuesday. Judge Anaclet Chipeta removed all conditions placed before the accused which, among other things, required Muluzi to report to the police...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, returning home after a three-week trip to the United Nations in New York City, has said that he will continue placing women in high leadership positions as a way of ensuring gender equality in the country. Speaking to journalists on arrival at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe late Monday, where he attended the 63rd UN General Assembly, Mutharika said that...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Excerpt from report by state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) radio on 25 September [Presenter] His Excellency the president, Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, has said the current food crisis that has rocked the world poses a new threat to the stability of social framework and economic prosperity of all countries in the world, especially the small nations. President Mutharika was addressing the on-going...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Malawi’s president Bingu Wa Mutharika has won a United Nations (UN) Global Creative Leadership Award for consistently addressing national issues with a goal of developing actionable solutions and new partnerships, The Daily Times has reported. Mutharika who also scooped another award the first ever Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Network (Fanrpan) food security policy leadership award...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Malawi's going to get some gay action this weekend! Despite some public opposition, the Malawi Gay Rights Movement announced they plan to make their official launch. And, in a surprising turn of events, claim President Bingu wa Mutharika gave them the green light: Magrim interim chairperson, Mc Leod said the launch for the association, which reportedly [...]
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika said Thursday he will seek international investment for his ambitious "green belt" irrigation project to boost food production and combat hunger. "I want the world to help in establishing the green belt through investment for Malawi to have food all the time," Mutharika told reporters before leaving for the UN General Assembly. Mutharika last month announced that...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday said that he would engage developed countries to support his “greenbelt initiative” whose aim is to ensure food security in the country. The initiative, to be implemented along the shores of Lake Malawi from the northern Karonga district to the southern Mangochi district of Malawi, intends to mass scale irrigation farming to grow food crops such as maize...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Friday said that his trip to Swaziland would further strengthen the relationship and friendship existing between two SADC states. Speaking during his departure at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe to Mbabane, Swaziland, to attend that country’s 40th Independence celebrations and King Mswati III’s 40th birthday, he said the two countries have had close...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has received the inaugural Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) Food Security Policy Leadership Award for his agricultural policy interventions which have transformed Malawi from a food deficit nation to a net maize exporter. The prize was awarded on Thursday afternoon by FANRPAN, a regional multi-stakeholder network promoting...
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
from the Independent On Line Blantyre - Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday said that Africa was able to feed itself, suggesting other African nations should learn farming lessons from his country. "We believe in Malawi that Africa can feed itself," Mutharika told reporters before he departed for Japan to attend a meeting of African leaders. "Malawians have been able to feed themselves....
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Malawi’s human rights activists on Tuesday said that there was need for President Bingu wa Mutharika to hold genuine reconciliation talks with opposition leaders to end the current political impasse in the country, and to ensure that such an impasse does not recur in future. Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) Executive Director Undule Mwakasungura said in Lilongwe that the president...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Malawi's former president is seeking to have the treason allegation leveled against him by President Bingu Wa Mutharika's administration thrown out of court. Attorneys for Ex-President Bakili Muluzi contend that the government has so far failed to start court proceedings to formally charge the former president three months after he was arrested. Ralph Kasambara is the lead attorney of former President...
