Alinafe Mlamba
Chairperson of the Malawi Human Rights Commission Reverend Patrick Semphere says political players have a key role to play in safeguarding human rights, especially now that the country is preparing for court-sanctioned fresh presidential elections amid Covid-19 pandemic.
The US Embassy in Malawi has repatriated almost 88 American citizens who were living in the country.
The US Embassy in Malawi is set to start repatriating its citizens back home, due to the COVID-19 global outbreak which has not spared Malawi.
Patients in the country have sounded SOS calling for intervention from government, amid a sit-in strike by medical practitioners in most public health facilities across the country.
Public health and good governance experts have cautioned against the delays in imposing a national lockdown as a means of curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Public health and good governance experts have cautioned against delays in imposing a national lockdown as a means of curbing the spread of coronavirus in the country.
Malawi’s anti-graft body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau has suspended recruitment of Revenue Officers at the Malawi Revenue Authority.
The National Registration Bureau has granted an audience with the Human Rights Defenders Coalition- HRDC on alleged registration malpractices by the registration body.
The Malawi Human Rights Commission has described delays in the arrest of officers implicated in the death of Buleya Lule as disturbing to justice.
Former president, Dr. Joyce Banda, has accused the Malawi government of politicizing the threat of the spread of corona virus which causes COVID-19.