By Emmanuel Muwamba – Good rains received in southern and central areas of Malawi for the 2010/11 agricultural season and the availability of Farm Input Subsidy Programme, which benefited an estimated 1.6 million smallholder maize farmers, has raised prospects of another good harvest in the country. Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) provides farmers with access to inputs at a subsidized price. Planting of the main maize crop for the 2010/11 season is complete in most areas of the country and in some areas the crop has already reached a knee high height and looking healthy. Current meteorological reports indicate good... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, January 6th 2011 |
By Emmanuel Muwamba – Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has appointed Chief State Advocate Rosemary Kanyuka as new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) becoming the first female to head the prosecution team in Malawi. Her appointment makes it the third DPP in the Mutharika administration since 2004. Solicitor General Anthony Kamanga told the press that Kanyuka has been appointed to head the State prosecution team but she will wait for the confirmation by Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament. Kanyuka refused to comment on her appointment. Kamanga said Kanyuka’s appointment is with effect from December 22. Kanyuka replaces former DPP Wezzie... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, December 28th 2010 |
Emmanuel Muwamba – President Bingu wa Mutharika has fired two senior party members-Vice President Joyce Banda and former minister Khumbo Kachali from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Banda and Kachali were first and second party deputy president presidents respectively. Mutharika who is also president of the party fired the two at a meeting of DPP National Governing Council (NGC) on Saturday. The meeting lasted about four hours. The party asked Banda and Kachali to defend themselves “briefly”. A statement signed by the party’s secretary general Bintony Kutsaira says the party resolved to dismiss the two because they failed to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, December 12th 2010 |
Several low-income countries highly affected by HIV risk being entirely or partly disqualified from the current funding round by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warns the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Unless a new round of funding is urgently introduced to allow rejected applications to be resubmitted, HIV-positive people will suffer severe consequences such as debilitating opportunistic infections and ultimately early death. The Global Fund Board will convene on 13 December to take their decision on whether or not to fund each proposal, and to decide on the timing of the next funding... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, December 9th 2010 |
With the support of the German Embassy Lilongwe and its partnership with Cream!Women in the Arts, the first-ever Superwoman Festival is taking place in Lilongwe on November 25 and 26. The Superwoman Festival is being organized by Cream! Women in the Arts, an organization of female Malawian artists with the goal to promote the cultural and artistic capacity of Malawian women. The organisation, launched in March 2010, unites female artists from varying fields of the arts and holds interactive capacity building events intended to lead to women’s socio-economic empowerment. Cream! supports women artists by dispelling biased and negative perceptions of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, November 25th 2010 |
