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‘Malawi and Mozambique don’t just share a border, we share history, culture, trade routes and most importantly aspirations for prosperity’

June 5, 2025

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MCCCI president Dr. Wisely Phiri addressing the high profile gathering * Said MCCCI president Dr. Wisely Phiri when hosting visiting Mozambique President Daniel Francisco Chapo at Malawi-Mozambique Business Community Initiative * This forum is not just a meeting of minds — it is a bold step towards deepening economic integration and catalysing bilateral investment opportunities between our two lovely nations By Duncan Mlanjira At the Malawi-Mozambique Business Community Initiative held at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe —…

Visiting Mozambique President Chapo urges the two countries business community to support each other’s economic growth

June 5, 2025

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* For meaningful development to take place, government should work together with the private sector to attract investors * Malawi and Mozambique need to attract foreign and local investments that can speed economic development in the two countries By Sheminah Nkhoma, MANA President of the Republic of Mozambique, Daniel Francisco Chapo, has urged Malawi and Mozambique business community to continue investing in both countries to support the economic growth of the two countries. Speaking this afternoon a luncheon meeting…

Mozambique President visits Malawi Parliament and Kamuzu Mausoleum

June 5, 2025

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* The Mozambique leader planted a soldier tree within the Parliament grounds as a symbol of friendship and cooperation * He later laid a wreath at the Kamuzu Mausoleum in honour of Malawi’s first president, the late Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda By Rosalia Kapiri, MANA After landing at Kamuzu International Airport this morning, President of the Republic of Mozambique, Daniel Francisco Chapo visited the Malawi Parliament and Kamuzu Mausoleum in Lilongwe as part of his two-day official visit to…

uMkhonto weSizwe Party removes Floyd Shivhambu as a secretary general following his meeting with Prophet Bushiri in Malawi in April

June 4, 2025

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* After lengthy discussions and considerable inputs from the national officials, it was concluded that the actions by the Secretary-General were found to be against the spirit and the prescripts of the MK Party Constitution * Most specifically, Section 3 (j) under “Offences”, which stipulates: ‘Undertaking international trips and participating in activities and programmes that are opposed to the agenda of the MK Party or an allied party By Duncan Mlanjira Leader of uMkhonto weSizwe Party, Jacob Zuma has…

Mozambique President Daniel Chapo to visit Malawi to launch Dedza/Calomue One-Stop Border Post

June 4, 2025

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President Daniel Chapo * The bilateral discussions will focus on further deepening and consolidating the cordial and longstanding bilateral relations between the two Republics * The Dedza/Calomue One-Stop Border Post is a landmark development in cross-border cooperation and trade facilitation By Duncan Mlanjira Mozambique President, Daniel Francisco Chapo will arrive in the country for a two-day State Visit from tomorrow, June 5-6 to hold bilateral talks with President Lazarus Chakwera under the theme; ‘Fifty Years of Enhancing Malawi-Mozambique Diplomatic…

CAF president Patrice Motsepe being positioned as South Africa’s ANC presidential candidate at its pivotal 2027 national conference

June 3, 2025

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* Behind closed doors, a coalition of politicians, business leaders and professionals is mobilising a meticulously organised campaign * The reforms he introduced at CAF saw its financial standing, governance and competitiveness improve to become number three in continental confederations of FIFA * These credentials set Motsepe apart from other candidates — and besides, Motsepe does not enter a race if he is not going to win * His rise to the CAF presidency as a Southern Africa candidate…

MEC hosting SADC’s Electoral Commissions Forum for chief electoral officers and executive committee meetings in Lilongwe from tomorrow June 1-4

May 31, 2025

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* Hosting these important meetings reflects our commitment not only to our national mandate, but also to regional cooperation in strengthening democratic electoral processes * These engagements provide valuable space for sharing lessons, addressing common challenges, and advancing electoral professionalism * The meeting shall give a platform to member commissions conducting elections in 2025, Malawi, Seychelles, Tanzania and Zanzibar, to make presentations on their state of preparedness By Duncan Mlanjira The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) will from tomorrow (June…

‘They Wanted To Erase My Language — I Chose To Write In It’ — Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o whose defiance shaped African lierature voice

May 30, 2025

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o died in the US on May 29, 2025 * Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was not an ordinary Kenyan old man — no, he was a hero, and many a knee knocked against the other when he spoke * It did not matter that, far from the power of his written word, orally he was slow, and spoke haltingly and with a concealed stammer * The literary world — which denied him the Nobel Prize in Literature —…

President Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans

May 30, 2025

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* If we want to solve injustices in Africa today, we cannot forget the injustices that shaped our shared history * Trump’s claims of white genocide conflict with the actual racial persecution and massacres that took place during the two centuries of colonisation and nearly 50 years of apartheid in South Africa By John Dramani Mahama, President of Uganda writing on UK’s The Guardian The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa,…

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o dies aged 87

May 29, 2025

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* Ngũgĩ was tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature countless times, leaving fans dismayed each time the medal slipped through his fingers * He will be remembered not only as a Nobel-worthy writer, but also as a fierce proponent of literature written in native African languages By Wedaeli Chibelushi, BBC News Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a titan of modern African literature — a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness — died yesterday aged…