Blantyre District

Tembo booted in favour of novice

Blantyre - Malawi's parliament on Tuesday elected a novice legislator as leader of the opposition, kicking out veteran politician John Tembo, a former right-hand man to late dictator Kamuzu Banda. Abele Kayembe, 36, an MP with...

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Opportunity knocks

I met Combo at dawn. I was standing on the Malawian shore of the lake watching the sun rise over the mountains in Mozambique and she came and stood wordlessly beside me and we watched together. After a while I offered her a...

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Malawi: politicians convicted

Blantyre - Lawyers say two Malawian opposition leaders have been convicted of sedition and inciting violence while campaigning. Lawyers said on Tuesday that a judge had convicted the two on Monday and sentenced each to 20...

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1871: Journalist Henry Stanley finds the missing explorer Dr David Livingstone at Ujiji, near...

Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the 'Scramble for Africa'. David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south...

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AFRICA: Lost in the Tracking of Budgets

Blantyre - local vendors at Lizulu market say they don't know how government spends its money, but they know that it'll will certainly not reach them. This year, like in the past five years, the minister of finance, Ken Kandodo...

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Mozambique and Tanzania fuel hitches affect

Replies: 0 Last poster: Mtheto Lungu at 06-11-2009 11:15 Topic is Open Friday, November 6, 2009. Malawian motorists have had to either abandon their offices or motor vehicles to get a chance at fuel. Thousands in the major...

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Malawi villagers want more cash for Madonna school land (AFP)

AFP/File – American pop queen Madonna breaks the ground for her Raising Malawi Girls Academy in Lilongwe in October … BLANTYRE (AFP) – More than 100 villagers in Malawi demanded Thursday more compensation from the government...

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Nine arrests in blitz on dealers

Officers carried out early morning raids at the homes of drug dealers Nine people have been arrested in raids in South Lanarkshire targeting those suspected of being involved in drug-dealing and organised crime. Officers raided...

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400 mourn mother and child

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button. Published Date: 29 October 2009 A NEWLY-WED mother and her young daughter who died after a fire ripped through their home were buried side-by-side...

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Lost in the Tracking of Budgets

As Susan Muonanji and other vendors scrambled around one of the many transport busses to sell cabbages and tomatoes at a market along one of Malawi's key roads, a national budget session had just started in parliament some 100...

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