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[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has asked government to consider repealing all laws that are inconsistent with the constitution and those considered as an insult to the media fraternity in Malawi. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has announced how charged media practitioners are for this year's celebrations of the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) on 3 May 2012. |
|  [Gregory Gondwe] President Bingu wa Mutharika has defended the amendment of Section 46 of the Penal Code which gives the information minister power to ban any publication or its importation should the minister deem it harmful to the public.
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| [Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Malawi) has warned that the image of the government of Malawi risks being extensively tarnished if journalists continue to receive death threats from unknown government agents. |
| [Gregory Gondwe] Government says it has identified two witnesses to testify against journalist, Ernest Mahwayo, in a case where he was accused of conduct likely to cause breach of peace. |
| [Gregory Gondwe] The year 2011, while still not yet finished, could easily pass as the worst for the Malawi media which continue to suffer police persecution. |
| [Gregory Gondwe] Joseph Mwale, the radio journalist fired for allegedly publicising a recorded audio interview with Peter Mutharika, Malawi's foreign affairs and international cooperation minister and brother to President Bingu wa Mutharika, is said to be receiving death threats. |
| [Gregory Gondwe] Ernest Mahwayo, the journalist arrested this week for snapping pictures of the residence of Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, has been granted bail. Limbe Dalton's first grade magistrate, Annie Chikhadzula, also granted the journalist an application where he requested that he change his plea. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] Botswana parliament's opposition bloc has taken a swipe at President Bingu wa Mutharika's government for, among other things, his display of intolerance to critical views, when he assented to Section 46, Penal Code Amendment Bill, which grants the minister for information the power to arbitrarily close down publications, outside due process. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi, on 20 July 2011, turned on its head as demonstrations against bad governance turned violent, prompting Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to stop all privately-owned radio stations, which had been covering the proceedings live, from doing so. Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), Capital Radio and Joy Radio all confirmed receiving communication from MACRA to stop covering the demonstrations. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] Masked thugs smashed and burnt two Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) vehicles within 24 hours as Malawi has been engulfed with tension with a planned mass demonstration slated for Wednesday, 20 July 2011 on protest of bad governance and a poor economic situation. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The media law, endorsed by President Bingu wa Mutharika and the Malawi government, amending Section 46 of the Penal Code that allows the information minister to ban publications deemed contrary to public interest, has boomeranged. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The case in which the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) is challenging the enactment of a piece of legislation that empowers a cabinet minister to ban any publication viewed against public interest, reached a crucial stage on Friday, 9 July 2011. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) condemned the beating of Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) photojournalist Jacob Nankhonya on Saturday, 14 May 2011, at a memorial service for the late former president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Nankhonya was roughed up while he was trying to take a picture of a fracas that had erupted during the ceremony when family members were beating a man who claimed to be a son of the late president. |
| [Gregory Gondwe] Edward Chisambo, 54, managing editor for Malawi's biggest and oldest media institution Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), has died. Chisambo passed away on Saturday, 7 May 2011, at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre after succumbing to malaria and hypertension. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] As the world commemorated World Press Freedom Day yesterday, 3 May 2011, the government of Malawi conceded that it is worried that regulating new media outlets such as online publications and social networks like Facebook and Twitter has become very difficult. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The clinging of Malawi to poor governance practices that include the enactment of Section 46 of the Penal Code that empowers the information minister to ban any publication, has turned into a diplomatic row between Malawi and the UK. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] Although the World Press Freedom Day Commemoration falls on 3 May every year, Malawi media started commemorating the day on 23 April 2011. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] Article 19, a London-based human rights organisation with a specific mandate and focus on the defence and promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide, has joined the condemnation of the Malawi government's passing of a repressive law. |
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[Gregory Gondwe] The Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), an umbrella of over 90 civil society organisations, has sought court protection from the state-controlled broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), which is said to be attacking the body and its chairperson, Undule Mwakasungula. |
