In a district where 662 adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) underwent unsafe abortions between January and September 2024 alone, the story of one young woman from Traditional Authority (T/A) Bvumbwe puts a human face on a crisis many prefer to ignore.
The then Minister of Homeland Security, Ken Zikhale Ngoma, used his power to weave lies and push a political agenda that harmed the very people I sought to protect—unarmed, vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers.
Between June 10 and July 5, presidential, parliamentary and local government aspirants for the September 16 General Elections will collect nomination forms and present them to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as an application package for their candidature.
A few weeks ago, Goodall Gondwe, 84, who is DPP’s northern region Vice President, held a press conference at his house in Lilongwe where he announced that his region has endorsed Peter Mutharika, 82, as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2025 elections.
Who could fancy the once outspoken DPP spokesperson Nichola Dausi standing up against the Mutharikas?
But this is what reality looks like especially when the veil that shields you from the outside world falls.
Someone once said that democracy is a contested terrain, but what we are seeing in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is pure greed disguised as democracy.
When President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera invited all Malawi’s ex-leaders for a meeting to brainstorm ways to handle the Cyclone Freddy aftermath, I thought it was an action in good faith.
Something significant happened on the African continent in 2020. In only the second time in the recent history of democratic governance in Africa, judges overturned a presidential election.