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Malawi Anglican bishop-elect accused of rape
(Malawi National/Society)
... refused to comment on the allegations, telling the Times he had not been told by his superiors. "Ask the bishops who were there to give you more details," he said. Bishop Brightson Malasa of ...
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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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'Kuphunzira Sikutha': Celebrating Int'l Literacy Day
(Malawi National/Society)
... Confucius Prize for Literacy for its Women Land Rights Project (WOLAR). These Malawian women have charted a new way of looking at literacy. They are challenging our stereotypes of women as helpless, ...
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Malawi’s Justice Tambala to join African Court
(Malawi National/Society)
BLANTYRE--Malawian Supreme Court of Appeal judge Duncan Tambala is one of the five African justices appointed to the African Court on Human and People's Rights based in Arusha, Tanzania by the executive ...
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Q & A with Prof. Peter Mutharika
(Life and Style/People)
... time we had huge infrastructural developments such as Nsanje to Karonga, Lake Shore road networks. In the advent of multiparty democracy, we had institutional development like Human Rights Commission. ...
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Romance, succession feud dominate MW headlines
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... For Non-Governmental Organisations as saying women have all the rights as men to bid for the top job. It was not only his presidential ambitions that put the president's brother in the news ...
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DPP suffocating democracy
(Malawi National/District)
... my view has been the statement made by one Hon. Masangwi that Malawi is not ready for a woman president which drew condemnation from women rights quarters and religious groups. I am not so sure whether ...
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Rivals Joyce Banda, Peter Mutharika wrestle
(Malawi National/Politics)
... think anybody in this country has the right to intimidate or harass any woman. Why mention Joyce Banda? This is harassment of the highest order." Mabvuto Bamusi, Human Rights Consultative Committee: ...
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Thotho on new flag: It’s over, move on!
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... the new flag already in use before his office does its part to complete the process. The new flag is here but the debate is far from over. The Human Rights Consultative ...
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Reporting climate change not sexy?
(Life and Style/Religion)
BLANTYRE--What's the fuss about climate change? Most reporters will probably tell you it’s not a sexy subject worth wasting time and ink on. Corruption, sex, rights abuses and politics all in their ...
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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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Who’s who? DNA test can tell us—Rights group
(Malawi National/Politics)
LILONGWE—Jim Jumani Johansson’s claims that Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Malawi’s founding president, was his father should not be dismissed out of hand, a human rights group said Monday. “We don’t have a ...
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Fmr Miss Malawi holds key to son’s questions
(Life and Style/Health)
... which could suggest that the mother had sole custody when the child was born. The Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) has met with Johansson. HRCC board member Desmond Mhango said on Monday, ...
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Forced same-sex in prison spreading AIDS: Study
(Life and Style/Religion)
... not just a matter of extending information to them but is also a matter of human rights," he said. Muchungu observed that there was high recognition among prisoners that HIV was spreading in ...
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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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Couple's use of ‘fisi’ to get knocked up denounced
(Life and Style/Health)
... NAPHAM’s National Reproductive Health and Health Rights policy advocacy programme said the problem of infertility could be tackled with the assistance of leaders in the community, religion and medical ...
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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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UNICEF says child protection law only a start
(Life and Style/Health)
... protection laws [to] the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC)." "We are especially pleased that we now have a specific law that criminalises child labour, child abduction, child ...
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Muckracking on Sunday w/Raphael Tenthani
(SCOPE/Raphael Tenthani)
... people who are willing to die to others who may not be as willing. Freedom, as in rights, must have corresponding responsibilities. Freedom of worship that kills innocent children is as good ...
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Small Catholic media house with a big heart
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... had a snowball effect. A series of other not only frank but critical publications about the hitherto taboo subjects like democracy and human rights rolled off the presses with furious abandon. ...