Not everything at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria has gone according to plan. However, visiting players and coaches unanimously agree that Nigerians have received them with open arms. Read Full Story
BLANTYRE, Nov 5, 2009--Scores of villagers in Malawi on Thursday protested to authorities and warned that they would block the construction of a $15 million academy being bankrolled by US pop diva Madonna unless the government gave them more money for the land. Read Full Story
BLANTYRE, Nov 4, 2009 Malawi Politics Tobacco export receipts in Malawi dropped by nine percent in 2009, due to a 23 percent fall of average prices offered at the auction floors, the country's crop watchdog said Wednesday."The tobacco market sufferred some price setbacks and average prices were down by 23 percent per kilo this year," Bruce Munthali, general manager of the Tobacco Control Commission, told reporters. Read Full Story
BLANTYRE, Nov 3, 2009--A Malawian couple has been jailed five years after they confessed to practicing witchcraft which they claimed was used to kill a woman, court and police officials said Tuesday. Read Full Story
LILONGWE, Malawi (Malawi Politics) -- Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, charity officials said Saturday Read Full Story
The U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team rebounded in their second game of the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, defeating Malawi 1-0 with a goal from midfielder Alex Shinsky at Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, Nigeria. Read Full Story
Malawi Politics ReporterBLANTYRE, Oct 30, 2009 (MalawiPolitics)-Harry Mkandawire, a critic of Malawi's President President Bingu wa Mutharika, has been given the boot by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) weeks after he wrote a letter critical of the president's leadership style."I can confirm that the party has decided to expel him," DPP secretary general Henry Chimunthu Banda was quoted by the Daily Times as saying. He however did not give reasons why Mkandawire, who was deputy chief of... Read Full Story
BLANTYRE, Oct 30, 2009 (MalawiPolitics)--Malawian authories on October 28th named Gabriel Kondesi, who was arrested for operating a radio without a licence recently, as one of the directors of a new community radio the government plans to donate. Picture on the right Gabrile Kondesi, described by Malawi medai as the genius, talks to reporters Read Full Story
BLANTYRE, Oct 30, 2009 (MalawiPolitics) -- Outspoken Malawian minister Patricia Kaliati says she will not resign from the Cabinet over several allegations of graft.“Over my dead body, I don’t see any reason why I should resign. I have done nothing wrong and I’m not scared," she told Malawi's private Capital Radio station in an interview. Read Full Story
By: Felix MpondaBlantyre, MalawiA day after unveiling plans to build a multi-million dollar school for poor but talented girls, Madonna made her way to Mchinji, about 125 miles north-west of the Malawian capital of Lilongwe where hundreds gathered. But as our correspondent Felix Mponda reports, many locals were dissappointed as they failed to see, in the words of one villager, "our son" David US pop diva Madonna was serenaded by 500 orphans late Tuesday when she visited a local church-run o... Read Full Story
