Category: Politics

By Duncan Mlanjira Justice Jane Ansah SC announced her resignation as Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson in an interview on the state broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) on Thursday, just eight days before Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) planned to have nationwide protests on May 28 to force her and her fellow commissioners to step down. And this is also after Vice-President Saulos Chilima planned to return to court to press President Peter Mutharika to remove Ansah and her fellow…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has been given 14 days to respond to the office of the Ombudsman on six counts of allegations of abuse of office and other acts of maladministration in the procedures and practices of engaging South African lawyers to represent Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) in the presidential election case. This, says Ombudsman Martha Chizuma, is pursuant to section 123 of the Constitution and section 5 of the Ombudsman Act, which gives the mandate…

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By Ireen Kayira, MANA Malawi Electoral Commissioner, Jean Mathanga, who is chairperson of chairperson of MEC’s Electoral Services Committee, stresses that she cannot resign but will see out her contract that ends on June 5. This is despite calls from different stakeholders in Malawi electoral society for her and her colleagues to do so for their incompetence during the 2019 tripartite elections. At a press briefing that MEC and National Registration Bureau (NRB) jointly organised at Crossroads Hotel in…

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By James Mwale, MANA Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) on Tuesday engaged Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) and Ministry of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology, urging them to ensure broadcasters adhere to responsibility and moral ethics ahead of the forthcoming fresh presidential election. After the interface which took place at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe, MHRC chairperson Rev. Patrick Semphere told journalists that among the topics of discussion, was the importance of non-discriminatory access of all…

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By Aaron Banda, MANA Voter Verification exercise at Mzenga Centre in Mchinji North Constituency has been suspended following an attack from angry villagers who protested against forestry officers for allegedly destroying their crops. It is reported that Mchinji forestry officials on Monday destroyed crops at Mzenga Village, accusing the communities of cultivating in forest reserve area, which angered the villagers and resorted to vent their frustrations by disturbing the voter verification exercise. According to Mchinji Police Station Officer in…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Member of Parliament (MP) for Blantyre City East, John Bande — who was re-elected into the august House as an independent, has decided to rejoin the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that propelled him to prominence since 2005. Bande was warmly welcome into the DPP fold by his Blantyre City East constituents at meeting held at their office in Makhetha where they merged Constituency committee with the one he worked with during the campaign so that they…

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