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Malawi's judiciary faces corruption investigation

Deutsche Welle 13 Nov 2024
While Malawi's judiciary has faced scrutiny over graft allegations, new claims from a prominent lawyer have prompted the Judicial Service Commission to launch a formal probe ... .
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Senior Malawi politician accused of plotting to kill president

Yahoo Daily News 29 Oct 2024
Appearing on Monday at a court in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, the 57-year-old did not speak. But her lawyer argued that the politician maintained her innocence, local media reports ... Banana wine brings sweet taste of success to Malawi farmers.
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Malawi court dismisses case to legalize same-sex relationships

Jurist 29 Jun 2024
Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed the case of two applicants seeking to legalize same-sex relationships, marking a significant setback for LGBTQ+ rights in the country ... in Malawi.
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Malawi: Malawi Law Society Summons Lawyer, Andrew Mdala, for Non-Payment of K68 000 Petrol Bill

All Africa 22 Apr 2024
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has summoned lawyer Andrew Mdala to a disciplinary hearing for allegedly failing to square a K68,000 fuel and oil bill at a gas station in Blantyre for over a year ....
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Malawian journalist arrested over article accusing businessman of corruption

AOL 12 Apr 2024
Mhone’s lawyer Joseph Lihoma questioned the police decision to take the journalist 200 miles from Blantyre to Malawi’s main police headquarters in the capital, Lilongwe, to charge him ... Malawi’s ...
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Malawi police arrest journalist over fraud story

Voa News 10 Apr 2024
Blantyre, MalawiPolice in Malawi have arrested a newspaper journalist over an online story published last year exposing fraudulent activities involving a corruption suspect charged with conspiracy to defraud the Malawi government.
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MALAWI’S PATH TO AN ‘AWARD-WINNING JUDICIARY’

This Day 28 Nov 2023
In Malawi, they seek and appoint the best to be judges, writes Chidi Anselm Odinkalu ... The story of how Malawi’s judges became “award-winning” should be of interest to Nigerians ... and one lawyer.
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Amal Clooney joins Michelle Obama and Melinda Gates in Malawi to pledge to end child ...

The Daily Mail 22 Nov 2023
Amal Clooney has joined Michelle Obama and Melinda Gates in Malawi to reaffirm their commitment to ending child marriage ... The CFJ's latest initiative, Waging Justice For Women, funds the Women Lawyers Association of Malawi.
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Obama, Clooney and Gates: 'We can end child marriage in a generation'

Business Ghana 21 Nov 2023
"And tell him you have a lawyer too now," she added ... Her Waging Justice for Women programme funds the Women Lawyers Association of Malawi, which arranges for specialists to travel to rural communities to seek out women looking for help.
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Ghana Beyond Gold: Sovereign Minerals Fund, MIIF talks diversification with salt and lithium

B & FT Online 10 Jul 2023
He is also a lawyer who has advised corporates and governments on large-scale infrastructural deals and debt financing so he is no stranger to the inner workings of money and how it can become an important leverage for countries.
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Their son was banned from school for 3 years because of his dreadlocks

CNN 22 May 2023
Although it is not a legal requirement in Malawi, an unwritten policy enforced across government schools meant his son was being denied admission because of his hair ... “I went to the Women Lawyers Association of Malawi to ask for help.
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Malawi: Their son was banned from school for 3 years because of his dreadlocks

CNN 22 May 2023
Although it is not a legal requirement in Malawi, an unwritten policy enforced across government schools meant his son was being denied admission because of his hair ... “I went to the Women Lawyers Association of Malawi to ask for help.
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Read Amal Clooney’s powerful speech for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards: ‘justice must be waged’

Harpers Bazaar 12 May 2023
Later this year we will open our first women-for-women legal aid clinic in Malawi so that young women lawyers can be trained and funded to provide free legal support to women and girls in their communities.

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