Dowa MP and former Information Minister Leckford Mwanza Thotho suggests ‘work in progress’ Dowa road be named Dr. Joyce Banda Highway.

Malawi’s main political parties have expressed mixed reactions on President Joyce Banda’s address delivered at the opening of the 2013/2014 budget meeting on Friday. In her address titled Malawi on the road to transformation, President Joyce Banda tacked various issues ranging from the economy to social wellbeing of...

Congrats yes, she deserve it

The President of Malawi, Her Excellency, Joyce Banda will host the world and African filmmakers and celebrities on March 16th, 2013 in Malawi, for the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) Nominations Party. The AMAA Nomination weekend will run from March 14th-17th, during which the business community, the political class in...

If you don’t know about President Joyce Banda, now’s the time to introduce yourself. Banda, named one of the eight most fascinating Africans of 2012 by The New Yorker, came into office in April of last year after her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, passed away. Her roots are deep in feminist grassroots activism....

Could the emerging of Her Excellency President Joyce Banda of Malawi be the dawn Malawians in particular and we Africans in general have been waiting for ions of years? Ever since she has been sworn in as President of Malawi, Mrs Joyce Banda hasn’t disappointed so far! She has thus far shown what it means to be a woman,...

Joyce Banda, women’s rights activist and Malawi’s vice president, became the first female president Saturday when she was sworn in following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in the nation’s capital, Lilongwe. Malawi was given the news of the president’s death several days after he died, according to the...

Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda on Tuesday unveiled a shake-up of top officials charged with government finances and media, purging loyalists of the late leader Bingu wa Mutharika. “Although we are in mourning, certain decisions cannot wait,” Banda told a news conference in the capital Lilongwe, three...

Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 9, 2012 The United States congratulates Joyce Banda on becoming the new president of Malawi and looks forward to continued partnership with the government and people of Malawi. Secretary Clinton spoke with President Banda this morning....

Malawi’s Joyce Banda told supporters there was no room for revenge as she was sworn in as Africa’s second female head of state in modern times after the death of the divisive Bingu wa Mutharika. Banda offered the conciliatory words on Saturday following two days of political intrigue in which Mutharika’s...

Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, is awash with anticipation. Malawi is about to have a new Head of State and Government. The Chief Justice, Redson Munro, will in less than one hour swear Vice-President Joyce Banda as the country’s President at the New Parliament Building in Lilongwe. The function was scheduled...

Law experts say Vice President Joyce Banda will step in as Malawi’s Head of State after reports emerged that President Bingu wa Mutharika had suffered a cardiac arrest. Mutharika was admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital in the morning after he collapsed at State House. Doctors are said to have attempted to resuscitate him...

Source: IPS | Travis Lupick and Emma Mwasinga Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda says younger women have a ‘moral obligation to make it’. “Regardless of what we face, we need to forge ahead, we need to keep going. For us, it is a responsibility that we have in order to push our fellow women...

Malawi’s Vice-President Joyce Banda on Sunday led Anglicans at the Saint Matthews Anglican Church [Chichiri, Blantyre] in a Big Fund-raising paper Sunday where the church raised K2.6 million (about $15,556). Speaking before the fundraising, Banda appealed to Malawians that although the country is going through big...

Malawi Vice president Mrs. Joyce Banda says there is no freedom to practice politics in the country. The vice president was speaking in Lilongwe at the launch of the Malawi project. She said Malawi cannot achieve any economic development where people continued to live in fear. Mrs. Banda was speaking to about 200 women to...

Just mention her name and anyone with a goodwill for this tiny, landlocked, poverty impoverished southern African state honestly agrees that she is one of few, humble daughters of substance and a role model for a girl child and fellow women at all levels in this country and even beyond the borders! This great woman is...