The new president's promises must be upheld if he will consolidate his support over the coming years. Sticking to the law is one of them.

Women in Malawi need to be in charge of the debate on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill. Men should be made to understand it.

Goevernment has a role to play. In many African countries, it is failing its citizens...and voters. Could Malawi have found a solution?

The Tonse Alliance Government is set to clean up corruption in Malawi. They may have to fight the troubles within too.

Malawi put closure to a messy Presidential election of 2019. Behind such constitutional breaches is one man.

The variance between the rich and poor, the privileged and not, is going to be accentuated by Covid-19.

Vice President Saulos Chilima criticized the Malawi Government on food access during a lock down. Perhaps he should think his rant through.

The church in Malawi is caught between an ideal situation and doing the right thing. It just might hurt its flock.

As things take a bad turn, President Peter Mutharika is taking control of the Covid-19 crisis. His plan needs to be more comprehensive.

The DPP-UDF alliance is moving full-steam ahead. The MCP and UTM still can't get over who's best to lead theirs.

All testimonies from MEC Commissioners show that self interest reigns supreme over country.

President Mutharika has appealed the ConCourt ruling on 2019's elections case. He needs to heed to an unlikely ally.

On 28 November 2019, a whistleblower changed Malawi's fate better than the ongoing Elections Case ever will.

The May 2019 Tripartite Elections came. With high hopes, people turned up in high numbers to vote. “Winners” were announced. As is always...

Tinyade is completing her final year of Business Administration at The Polytechnic in Blantyre. She looks funny. Her limbs appear stiff,...

2019 was meant to be the year of Malawi’s tripartite elections. For the most part, voter expectations had previously oscillated between...

In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2019. With approximately 38,000 new HIV infections recorded in 2018 in Malawi, the fight against AIDS...

The Nation on Sunday of 15 September 2019 reported the government's position relating to the fears that many had in the heated...

Scenes of Malawi’s young women and (mainly) men looting places of business, performed in the name of a political grievance around the...

“By the year 2020, Malawi, as a God-fearing nation, will be secure, democratically mature, environmentally sustainable, self-reliant with...

Patrick Otieno Lumumba, a Kenyan lawyer more famous for his oratory on political economy in Africa than the technicalities of law, has...

On 21 May 2019, two-thirds of Malawi rejected the comeback of Arthur Peter Mutharika to the presidency. However, the absurdity of a split...

Oppression—overwhelming control—is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life. While life is characterized by growth in a...

A comment to a Nyasatimes news article that appeared last Friday, 17 May 2019, says, “Atupele likely to lead the pack with about 46% of...

T’is the Election year, the year Malawians decide the fate of their country after a questionable and quite trying five years. Highlights...

Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima must be applauded for taking responsibility and apologising for the ruffing up of Malawi Electoral Commission...

The drama, anxieties and entertainment from the presentation of nomination papers and appointments of running mates are now fizzling out....

Happy New Year to all! The long-awaited 2019 is upon us. Nothing known today will be worth reckoning more than an election whose accurate...

8 December is now past. The United Transformation Movement (UTM) Party has had its elective convention and selected its torchbearer. An...

It’s 2018, and one would think our politics ought to have grown up a little. This website has twice written about how our politics...

This article represents the views of the author and not of any other institution or person. A little more than week ago, I was on a ZBS...

The headlines on the news the other night told us of the planned demonstrations for the coming months. In particular, the Teachers Union...

It’s safe now to say the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has more contenders to fear beyond the threat the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)...

Written in commemoration of Malawi's 54th Independence In the inevitable discourse on Malawi’s state of maturity as an independent...

Times hit hard since embracing multipartyism in the early 1990s in our small country. And while capitalism under our young democracy was...

5 June 2018, a Tuesday Peter Mutharika promised Malawi would sublime into European-like infrastructural marvel and standards of living,...

Malawians remain on the fence insofar as politics is concerned. The craving to challenge the status quo is almost inexistent, and the...

Youth in politics have been marginalized for as long as post-independence self-rule has existed in Malawi. The look of our political...

In the just past week, the folly of two newsworthy events does not just lie in the failure to prove the guilt of perpetrators of...

There were times Malawian airwaves seemed to not have enough of Patricia ‘Akweni’ Kaliati. Barely two years ago, Akweni was quite notable...

Under a keen, watchful, eye of Paul Kagame, African nations made a bold move at the end of March 2018 by taking to sign the historical...

An occasional dream is necessary. It is essential to get us going, to energize…to get us to lucidly see the destination we desire. Here...

Bakili Muluzi needs to hear this now. Not later. So should we all. Mr. Muluzi made a solemn promise to dress every Malawian in shoes once...

The stubborn persistence of power shortages could very well threaten a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) comeback next year. Precious...

It is already Christmas 2017, and another rough year comes to an end! Our small, but fast-populating country’s scoresheet of troubles...

The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) just had a really good week. No, a great week! Claiming three parliamentary seats and two wards across...

Do we wonder how solutions to Malawi’s development seem untenable, yet our leaders consistently convince us they have figured it all out?...

The election of Rwanda to the African Union presidency in 2018 means Paul Kagame, the country’s president, will be the epitome of this...

Published in celebration (or not) of Malawi's 53 years of independence! In 1994, Malawi had the opportunity to marshal in an aspirational...

For a third time in two weeks, something gets to make the waves on the dwindling odds for the Ngwazi's Party, the Malawi Congress Party...