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November 30, 2025, 10:29 pm
All of Africa Today - November 28, 2025
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Court Issues Warrant to Search Chakwera's Home Over Alleged Illegal Possession of State Security Dogs
- [Nyasa Times] The Senior Resident Magistrate's Court in Lilongwe has issued a search warrant authorising Malawi Police to search the residence of former President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera over allegations that he is unlawfully keeping four State-owned security dogs.
Tension Rises After Raid On Chakwera Home As DPP Insiders Hint At Possible Move Against Former Minister Mumba
- [Nyasa Times] A day after police raided the home of Malawi's 6th President, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, shockwaves continue to ripple across the political landscape, deepening fear and uncertainty within the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Senior party figures say the operation--carried out without clear documentation--has left many wondering who might be next.
Luanar Express Optimism in Country's Research Absorption
- [Nyasa Times] The Lilongwe University of Agriculture Natural Resources (LUANAR) says the country is on the right direction in absorption and implementation of research results from the agricultural sector.
Rule of Law in Flames - Phwetekere Defies Unlawful Government Secondment
- [Nyasa Times] Higher Education Students' Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB) Executive Director Prince Phwetekere has once again stood his ground, openly defying a government secondment he insists is illegal, irrational, and a gross misinterpretation of the law.
Police Presence At Former President Chakwera's Residence Sparks Uproar
- [Nyasa Times] Chaos and uncertainty swept across the capital on Tuesday as members of the Malawi Police Service (MPS) moved to surround the Area 10 residence of former President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, triggering a furious political backlash and widespread unrest in surrounding communities.
Security Expert Slams Years of Neglect As Police Scramble to Revive 997 Rapid Response
- [Nyasa Times] Security expert Aubrey Kabisala says the Malawi Police Service's decision to resurrect the long-abandoned '997 Rapid Response' is not just overdue--it is a damning indictment of a system that allowed itself to collapse while crime spiralled and Malawians paid the ultimate price.
Two CEOs, Double the Cost - Austerity or Hypocrisy?
- [Nyasa Times] Malawians are being forced to pay the price for yet another display of government recklessness. In a shocking contradiction to its own rhetoric on austerity, the Peter Mutharika administration has deployed several high-earning chief executive officers (CEOs) from state agencies to public universities--at full salary--while their original positions are filled by acting officers who are also paid nearly the same packages.
Sejun Demands Immediate Government Action After High Court Upholds Safe Abortion Rights for Sexually Abused Girls
- [Nyasa Times] Health rights group Sexual Reproductive Justice Network (SEJUN) has issued a blistering call to the Malawi Government, demanding urgent implementation of safe abortion services for minors who fall victim to sexual violence--following a landmark Malawi High Court ruling affirming their right to access such care.
Govt Reaffirms Commitment to Protect Vulnerable Households From Hunger
- [Nyasa Times] The Government of Malawi has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that food relief efforts are delivered with integrity, transparency and efficiency to support millions of vulnerable households facing hunger.
Poor Diet Fury - Students Burn Down Kabadwa Secondary School in Night of Chaos
- [Nyasa Times] Police in Zomba have confirmed that parts of Kabadwa Primary and Secondary School were reduced to ashes last night after enraged students torched school infrastructure in a dramatic overnight riot blamed on persistent poor diet and worsening welfare conditions.
We Are Not Ready for Planting Season, Mutharika Says as Fertilizer Crisis Deepens
- [Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika has publicly conceded that his government has failed to prepare the country for the 2025/26 planting season, admitting that Malawi is heading into the rains without adequate fertiliser and with procurement dangerously behind schedule.
Secondments Shock - How Taxpayers Are Funding Two CEOs for One Job
- [Nyasa Times] Malawians are set to pay the price--literally--for a controversial government decision that threatens to drain scarce public resources while claiming to promote "hands-on experience" in universities. The Peter Mutharika administration's recent deployment of several chief executive officers (CEOs) from state agencies to public universities has raised eyebrows, angered experts, and highlighted a costly flaw in the so-called austerity measures.
Arm the Registrar of Political Parties, Save Our Democracy
- [Nyasa Times] If Malawi is genuinely committed to rescuing its democracy from decay, cleansing its elections of corruption, and burying the toxic culture of political handouts once and for all, then it must do one simple, urgent thing: fully fund the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. Anything less is a betrayal of the very democracy we claim to defend.
Chiefs Pledge to Help Escom Fight Rising Vandalism in Southern Region
- [Nyasa Times] Traditional leaders in the Southern Region have pledged to intensify efforts to protect electricity infrastructure following rising cases of vandalism that continue to burden the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited.
Uganda-Malawi Business Forum a Platform to Create Business Opportunities
- [Nyasa Times] The First ever Uganda-Malawi Business Forum Exhibition has been described as purposeful and attainable as the two countries seeks to create awareness and generate interest in business enterprise.
Malawi Positions Itself As Hub for Investment and Green Innovation At AU-EU Summit
- [Nyasa Times] LUANDA -- Malawi used the 7th African Union-European Union Summit in Luanda to project itself as a nation ready to embrace economic growth, strengthen regional trade, and lead in the green economy.
Exposé - the K485 Million Lie - Documents Tear Apart Smear Campaign Against Kazako, Chakhaza and Kamlomo
- [Nyasa Times] The claim circulating on social media is straightforward: Gospel Kazako, Joab Chakhaza, Luke Tembo, and Gabriel Kamlomo personally received K500 million from a Ministry of Water and Sanitation media contract. The allegation is false.
How Chithyola Banda Watered Down Mwanamvekha's 'Taxing' Mid-Year Budget
- [Nyasa Times] The barbs traded between the government and the opposition in Parliament on Monday, November 24, 2025 transported me back to childhood--those dusty afternoons after school when grudges were not settled with words but with bare-knuckles. if someone wronged or insulted you during class, the matter never ended in the classroom.
265 Energy Expands Access to Clean Energy With the Launch of New Gas Refilling Station in Area 25
- [Nyasa Times] Malawi's leading gas service provider, 265 Energy Limited, has opened a new Gas Refilling Station, launched on 17th November 2025, a move that will significantly reduce the distance residents of Area 25 and its neighboring locations used to cover to buy the commodity.
Stop the Lies - Parliament Has Every Right to Rewrite the CDF Law
- [Nyasa Times] There has been an avalanche of commentary on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), much of it loud but painfully shallow. It is time to bring clarity, legality and constitutional logic to this debate.
Mutharika Appeals to IMF for Urgent Help As Economy Worsens
- [Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to give Malawi urgent financial support as the country faces serious economic problems, including shortages of fuel, food, fertiliser and foreign exchange.
Mzimba MP Goes Global - Mumba Joins Mbeki, Sharma, and World Policy Heavyweights At Cape Town Conversation 2025
- [Nyasa Times] Mzimba Central lawmaker Eng. Vitumbiko A.Z. Mumba--one of Malawi's renowned technocratic politicians--Monday night rubbed shoulders with world policy heavyweights at a high-level build-up dinner at Cape Town's luxurious Westin Hotel, a curtain-raiser to the influential Cape Town Conversation 2025 slated for November 24-26.
Smart Deliveries Boosts Tech-Driven Courier Services With New Limbe Service Point
- [Nyasa Times] Smart Deliveries has strengthened its position as one of Malawi's leading tech-driven courier companies by rolling out enhanced digital systems and opening a new service point in Limbe to support growing demand for modern parcel delivery solutions.
Malawians Told to Pay More Tax As Cost of Living Set to Rise
- [Nyasa Times] Malawians should get ready to spend more money after government announced new taxes that will make life more expensive for many families.
MPs Move to Reclaim CDF Sparks Outrage As Malga Heads to Court Over 'Infamous Bill'
- [Nyasa Times] Members of Parliament are once again at the centre of controversy after secretly pushing a new constitutional amendment that would return control of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to themselves--barely six months after a landmark High Court ruling stripped them of that power. The move, described by governance experts as a "brazen act of constitutional vandalism," has angered councils, civil society, and legal analysts, and has triggered an immediate legal threat from the Malawi Local Government
Dedza/Calomue One Stop Border Post Between Malawi and Mozambique Enhances Regional Trade Efficiency and Effectiveness
- [SADC] In a significant step towards fostering regional economic integration, the Dedza/Calomue border post, which connects Malawi and Mozambique, has been the focus of a detailed study visit conducted by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat. This initiative is part of a broader commitment made during the 13th Ministerial Task Force (MTF) meeting on Regional Economic Integration held in July 2013 in Maputo, Mozambique, where Ministers pledged to enhance border efficiencies and trade
Africa's Youth Aren't Copping Out: Neither Should COP30
- [Nyasa Times] Just after sunrise, long before offices open or policy meetings begin, you will find young Africans already at work in the fields, markets, and improvised tech hubs that power our food systems. Different countries, different landscapes, but the same pulse: young people taking on the reigns to engineer the change they want to see.
WHO Approves First Child-Friendly Malaria Drug - a Major Boost for Malawi's Fight Against the Killer Disease
- [Nyasa Times] Malawi's war against malaria has received a powerful new weapon following the World Health Organization's approval of the first-ever child-friendly, transmission-blocking formulations of primaquine.
Will COP30 Put Africa's Smallholders At the Centre of Climate Action?
- [Nyasa Times] On a road in Kenya's Makueni County, a woman loads sacks of pigeon pea onto a motorbike. Her landscape is rehabilitated, soils restored, seeds climate-resilient, markets ready, and a weather alert on her phone shows when it will rain. Each element exists because financing, science, extension servicesand markets worked together. It shows what COP30 can deliver if finance, infrastructure, inputsand knowledge reach smallholders simultaneously.
