A MAN in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after sharing a TikTok video featuring an animated figure with Chakwera’s face dancing in a humorous manner. Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday for posting the video and accompanying derogatory comments about Chakwera in a community WhatsApp group. Other … Read more
MALAWI has taken action after 12 of its farm workers were deported from Israel for violating employment contracts by leaving their assigned duties to work at a bakery. The confirmation came from Malawi’s Minister of Information and Digitisation, Moses Kunkuyu, who addressed the situation on Tuesday. According to Kunkuyu, the Malawi Embassy in Tel Aviv … Read more
ALTHOUGH the corruption trial against Malawi Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima has been halted by the state, it does not necessarily mean that the charges against him have been dismissed. So, technically speaking, he has not been declared innocent by the court. The trial was discontinued by the state before Chilima could take a plea, and the … Read more
IN a significant turn of events, a court in M alawi has dismissed corruption charges against Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima, removing a key obstacle to his potential bid in the forthcoming presidential election slated for next year. Chilima, who was apprehended in 2022 on allegations of corruption, was accused by Malawi’s anti-corruption agency of accepting rewards … Read more
THE United States has taken a decisive step against corruption in Malawi, announcing entry bans on four former government officials implicated in significant graft, the State Department revealed on Wednesday. The officials named in the sanction include Reyneck Matemba, former solicitor general and secretary of justice, John Suzi-Banda, former director of public procurement and disposal of assets, … Read more
MALAWI’S journalistic community reels as police apprehend journalist Macmillan Mhone for his role in an online corruption exposé dating back to 2023. The story, published during Mhone’s tenure at news outlet Malawi24, implicates a government conspiracy suspect, Abdul Karim Batatawala. Mhone’s current employer, the Nation Newspaper, stands in solidarity with him, denouncing what many see as an … Read more