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Revolt rocks UDF, party headquarters taken over
(Malawi National/District)
... businessmen, lawyers, civil rights activists and academics around 1992, the UDF forced the MCP of founding president Hastings Kamuzu Banda out of power during the first multiparty elections in 30 years ...
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Romance, succession feud dominate MW headlines
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... this past week. "I am Not Dating Seodi" was the headline in the scandal sheet, The Weekend Times, reporting on Prof. Mutharika's refutal that he would marry lawyer and gender rights activist Seodi White. ...
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Muckracking on Sunday w/Raphael Tenthani
(SCOPE/Raphael Tenthani)
... I wholly agreed with the president was when he expressed surprise at how women --and gender activists, male or female-- seemed satisfied with the suggested 30 per cent women representation in decision-making ...
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Peter Mutharika in love with me? Ask him—Seodi
(Life and Style/Health)
BLANTYRE--Anybody who thought gender activist and lawyer Seodi White and Justice Minister Peter Mutharika were in love, should think again, that’s according to the man himself. "People are just ...
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Presidents, dead and alive, plus dogs rule the wk
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... leave the headlines this week. "Activists March Against Dogs" was a story in The Nation reporting on activists who staged street demonstrations marching against the dogs that mauled a guard two weeks ago. ...
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Court to Jumani: Don’t visit Kamuzu biz empire
(Malawi National/Politics)
... submit to the same scientific test to show him that she indeed was his real mother. A leading rights activist Undule Mwakasungura has meanwhile said Jumani should go for the DNA test, saying ...
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Geeks hurdle, chart Malawi’s IT future Part I
(Business and Finance/Investments)
... countries to developed countries. To their credit, African scholars and activists, a handful of politicians, and a few global justice activists make this point, albeit infrequently, with the consequence ...
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Pitying the plumage forgetting the dying bird
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... won’t say what happened by the time their master has answered charges against him but we know what the dogs did. Elsewhere, when such incidents occur—in societies where animal rights activists ...
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No Malawian among 26 AU peace envoys
(Business and Finance/Investments)
... writer Henri Lopes, Teshaynesh Hewak Teka Legesse and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa.. Reacting to Malawians' omission on the list human rights activist Billy Banda said it ...
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OVOP and devpt in a Malawian village
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... and social justice activists both in the global North and in the global South. It enabled me to not only watch at close quarters but also be a participant on the receiving end of the cyclical process of ...
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Kaliati listen up! Bingu’s flip on gays pragmatic
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... sometimes fly past its nest. Contrary to that core belief, South Africa’s pres Jacom Zuma, Malawi’s activists Gift Trapence and Undule Mwakasungura wouldn’t want the proverbial throw the baby ...
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Initial positive reaction to new budget
(Business and Finance/Investments)
... right direction, he said. Lali’s view was shared by activists Andrew Usi and Limbani Nsapato who said the budget had shown the government was paying attention to issues being raised by various stakeholders. ...
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Africans called to fix continent's woes
(Business and Finance/Economy)
... and religious groups demonstrated, saying it was a waste of resources ($28 million) while gender activists said it reinforced stereotypes that depict men as stronger than women. Muslims who form up to ...
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Go to hell! Clergy chase gay Christians
(Life and Style/Religion)
... at the meeting tells a different story. "It was a horrible experience," recalled Victor Mukasa, a Ugandan gay activist also known as 'Juliet', of the encounter. "I am saddened that they regarded me as ...
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Malawi at the crossroads
(SCOPE/General)
... and Steven Monjeza were arrested over Christmas last year an activist, who fights for the rights of minority groups, including gays and lesbians and prostitutes, told me: "Tiwonge has always been like ...
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Media review: Gay issue, macabre crimes rule
(SCOPE/Review)
... of the couple and calling for their unconditional release. This was after renowned gay rights activist Peter Thatchel of Outrage! had already condemned the arrest. The Scottish and Norwegian international ...
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Malawi's chronology of key events
(SCOPE/Review)
... - Despite strong opposition from the Nyasaland African Congress and white liberal activists, Britain combines Nyasaland with the Federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively). ...
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Power-drunk DPP acting brand new
(SCOPE/General)
... rotting in jail vis-à-vis her Parliament's stand over their continued incarceration. For the record, a number of Scottish MPs joined the chorus of gay rights and other activists in condemning the arrest. ...
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Week in Review
(SCOPE/Review)
... is opposition to their union, the couple have allies but still "Malawi arrests gay rights activist" again says that you don't get to act intimately with a person of the same sex unless the colonial law ...
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With egg on Chimunthu's face, JZU wins
(Malawi National/Politics)
... he said. Apart from the visible political weight, the position is a cabinet-level post coming with it ministerial-level emoluments and perks. Human Rights activist Billy Banda welcomed ...