Nyasatimes Breaking News in Malawi
Every time UTM holds a rally these days, one thing is predictable: Patricia Kaliati will climb the podium, grab the mic, and—as if stuck on replay—launch yet another pointless tirade against Vice President Michael Usi, leader of Odya Zake Alibe Mulandu movement.
Malawi’s deep-rooted poverty is not some tragic accident of geography or a lingering colonial curse. It is the deliberate and devastating legacy of one man—Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. The so-called “founding father” of the nation was, in truth, the founding architect of a system that brutalized the poor, empowered the few, and set Malawi on a path of economic suffocation and political paralysis that still haunts us to this day.
Malawi’s political temperature is boiling — and Norman Chisale has just thrown fuel on the fire.
A political blame game has erupted between the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) following the violent attack on a DPP minibus in Mponela, amid growing public frustration over the continued silence of the Malawi Police Service.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has come out swinging—furious, unrelenting, and with a vengeance—warning all would-be traitors within its ranks: Stand as an independent candidate, and you are dead to us.
There is something fundamentally broken in the way some of Malawi’s so-called social media influencers operate. It’s not just their hunger for attention or their consistent attempts to polarize public opinion—it’s their casual relationship with the truth.
The People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) has come out swinging, declaring it will not join the bandwagon of political parties scrambling to form alliances ahead of the 2025 general elections.