Winstone Kaimira

Winstone Kaimira

Members of the Southern African Chief Justices’ Forum have expressed concern with government’s attempted placements of Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda and judge Edward Twea on leave pending retirement which they view as interference with independence of the Malawi judiciary.

New chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission, Dr. Chifundo Kachale, says MEC will be gazetting June 23 as the date for the fresh presidential election as per the 9th June resolution of Parliament.

Human Rights Defenders Coalition HRDC has on Sunday announced at a media briefing in Lilongwe that it will hold protests across the country which shall include a vigil at parliament building in Lilongwe, to force legislators discuss electoral bills.

Human Rights Defenders Coalition-HRDC-chairperson, Gift Trapence, has today announced that the rights organizations’ umbrella body will, from Wednesday June 10 match to Parliament building in Lilongwe where they will hold vigil until parliamentarians set a date for presidential election as ordered by the courts.

Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima says Covid-19 outbreak which has affected the nation should be a wake-up call, to improve the health system.

A brief opening ceremony of the 2020 tobacco market took place at Lilongwe Auction Floors on Monday morning.

The Ministry of Agriculture has on Tuesday released the 2019/2020 minimum farm - gate prices which have put maize at a minimum price of K200 per Kilogram.

Chief Director for the National Registration Bureau Mackford Somanje, appeared before the Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament Thursday morning where he answered questions on reports that his organisation is conducting a registration exercise , which aims at assisting the governing Democratic Progressive Party to rig the forthcoming Presidential poll.

The Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament says will closely monitor performance of National Registration Bureau Chief Director, Mackford Somanje, whose appointment is being questioned by some electoral stakeholders.

Barely a day after youths from the Malawi Congress Party and UTM Alliance held a press conference accusing President Peter Mutharika of violating human and constitutional rights, youths from Mutharika’s party – DPP say they are fed up with politics of castigation, targeting their party leaders.

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