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• Malawi faces more protests as Chakwera’s ultimultum to Mutharika on Al–Shabaab claims elapses: Police should be well-equipped

  Search Results for “chrr” – Malawi Nyasa Times Jun 24, 2019 | 12:19 pm

  Malawi is facing renewed street demonstrations with main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) set to unleash its supporters back to the streets to protest against  President Peter Mutharika’s claims  that some politicians are trying to recruit mercenary militias from Al-Shabaab[…]

• HRDC plans vigils in July

  Search Results for “chrr” – The Nation Online Jun 23, 2019 | 05:29 am

  Civil society organisations (CSOs) under the banner of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) have announced plans to hold further demonstrations following their unfulfilled June 20 protest demands. HRDC announced the development during a post-June 20 demonstrations press briefing held at[…]

• Police teargas MCP offices

  Search Results for “chrr” – The Nation Online May 29, 2019 | 03:38 am

  About 100 riot police officers stormed Malawi Congress Party (MCP) head offices in Lilongwe yesterday afternoon, where they tear-gassed the opposition party’s youths and damaged some property. MCP national organising secretary Khumbize Chiponda confirmed the development in an interview yesterday,[…]

• Karonga dispensary goes 14 years without water

  Search Results for “chrr” – The Nation Online May 22, 2019 | 00:12 am

    Communities in Karonga have sounded an SOS towell-wishers to rescue Katili Dispensary from water woes which date back to 2005 when the facility was constructed. During a health advisory committee meeting organised by Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation[…]

• Candidates to lobby for abolition of fund

  Search Results for “chrr” – The Nation Online May 13, 2019 | 08:56 am

    Malawi Congress Party aspiring member of Parliment for Karonga North West Daniel Mwanyongo has said if elected, he will lobby for the abolition of District Development Fund (DDF). He said the fund lacks proper guidelines; hence, it is prone[…]

• UK submits report on Njauju killers

  Search Results for “chrr” – The Nation Online May 4, 2019 | 01:40 am

   Maybe the Malawi Police Service will now do a better job on the on-going investigations on the murder of ACB director of corporate affairs Issa Njauju on July 4 2014. But this is only when and if the Malawi Government[…]

• Malawi CSOs form anti-corruption alliance bloc

  Search Results for “chrr” – Malawi Nyasa Times Apr 26, 2019 | 07:30 am

  Four civil society  organisations (CSOs) in the country have joined hands to form a forceful anti-corruption bloc which has already written  Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited  to cancel the K675 million contract to bring down Escom House in[…]

• Paper says ‘merit’ in  querry of K9.7bn deals at Malawi police

  Search Results for “chrr” – Malawi Nyasa Times Apr 8, 2019 | 05:00 am

  Malawi’s leading daily newspaper The Nation has used its extended coverage of its lead story that four groups under the banner of United Against Serious and Organised Crimes have queried the award of K9.7 billion contracts in the Malawi Police[…]

• OPC orders K2 million donations from Parastatals to DPP: For presidential nomination logistics

  Search Results for “chrr” – Malawi Nyasa Times Feb 7, 2019 | 02:34 am

  The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has ordered all parastatal organizations in the country to contribute K2 million each to be used for the presentation of nomination papers for President Peter Mutharika at Comesa Hall in Blantyre on[…]

• DPP loses ‘Blue Night’ appeal case against CSOs

  Search Results for “chrr” – Malawi Nyasa Times Feb 6, 2019 | 00:34 am

  The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has  dismissed the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)  and four parastatal institutions  appeal bid  for the court to stay a High Court judgement in the infamous Blue Night  case against some civil society organisations[…]