March 11, 2021 Watipaso Mzungu – Nyasa Times 4 Comments
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) have challenged President Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance-led administration walk the talk on women economic empowerment by allocating more public contracts to women entrepreneurs.
Kaiyatsa: Women have as much right to do business with the government as their male counterparts. –Photo by Watipaso Mzungu, Nyasa Times
The two institutions say it is disheartening to note that less than one percent of government contracts goes to female contractors.
CHRR is a human rights non-governmental organization in Malawi while AFIC is a Uganda-based largest membership pan-African civil society organization and resource centre that promotes citizens right of access to information (ATI) in Africa.
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February 3, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 55 Comments
A veiled claim by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) that the Tonse Alliance-led government is slow and has lost direction cannot go without comment.
Chakwera: His administration remains on track despite contrary
views
This assertion is allowable only in the context of democratic fundamentals of free speech but fails to present facts as they ought to be.
The art of running government affairs vis-à-vis HRDC’s concerns presents a need for citizens and other stakeholders to demarcate with caution all the proof points that determine success and failure in a given political term of service.
December 25, 2020 Watipaso Mzungu – Nyasa Times 41 Comments
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has protested the decision by the Tonse Alliance-led government to change the fiscal year from July June cycle, arguing it was made without a nod from the people who put the administration in government.
Namiwa and Cdedi officials
However, CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, who addressed journalists in Lilongwe on Thursday, acknowledged that President Lazarus Chakwera has not violated any law by making such a paradigm shift in policy direction.
Namiwa made the remarks when he address the media in Lilongwe a day after the Tonse government announced the change to the fiscal year.