BY DRAXON MALOYAGovernment of Malawi is continuing playing hide and seek on the disclosure of patients suspected to have contracted coronavirus which causes the deadly Covid19.The minister of health, Jappie Mhango on Monday refused to disclose the identity of the patients saying that will lead to stigmatization which is against medical ground rules.In a related…
A tribunal made up of chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda will this Wednesday meet to discuss whether to allow SA lawyers to represent MEC on the election appeal at the supreme court slated to start on 15 April. If the tribunal rejects the SA lawyers, MEC according to the law, will only have 2 days to…
Despite attaining democracy in 1992 the country has made little progress in as far as repealing some of the legal provisions on a number of areas to suit the current current political desensitization is concerned. Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda says coronavirus has caught Malawians still transacting business using outdated laws hence caught pants down as they…
BY DRAXON MALOYAPresident Peter Mutharika has directed the prison authority to give a list of convicts and juveniles who have served a better part of their prison sentence to be considered for a possible release as one way of fighting against the spreading of the deadly Covid19 caused by coronavirus. Mutharika made an order in…
Fellow Malawians, On Thursday, I announced that we now have confirmed cases of the Coronavirus disease. The virus has attacked us. Now we have a fourth confirmed case in Blantyre. An attack on one of us is an attack on us all. This is an attack we must all fight. Either we unite and fight,…
The Ministerial Special Committee on Covid 19 has announced that there is a new confirmed case of Covid19 in Blantyre. The patient returned from United Kingdom went into self quarantine. Chairperson of the committee Jappie Mhango says tests were done yesterday and came out positive. This means now Malawi has four confirmed cases.
BY DRAXON MALOYA People living on the boarder between Malawi and Tanzania and Malawi have expressed concerns with the recent measures taken by the Tanzanian government in the wakes of fighting the possible transmission of the deadly COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus. One of the concerned citizens plying trade between the two countries penned this…
The African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) sitting in Arusha, Tanzania has rescinded a ruling in which the country’s Supreme Court of Malawi made ordering the Executive Director for Youth and Society (YAS) Malawi Charles Kajoloweka to pay Mk21 million. Last year the court ordered Kajoloweka to pay Mk21 million for court bills…
In the absence of a working Acess to information (ATI) law in the country media practitioners continues to face numerous challenges when discharging their duties including law suits. Meanwhile, a Malawian businessman based in the Republic of South Africa, Simbi Phiri has dragged to court journalists for defamation and character assassination for publishing articles alleging…
Barely four (4)hours after the ministry of health refuted reports that Malawi has registered a coronavirus case in the capital city Lilongwe, the state president, Peter Mutharika has come out and confirmed the news. Mutharika addressed the nation from six o’clock in the evening on Thursday confirming that indeed the countey has registered three coronavirus…
