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2020 In Malawi
This article lists events from the year 2020 in Malawi. Incumbents * President: Peter Mutharika (until June 28), Lazarus Chakwera (from June 28) * Vice-President: Everton Chimulirenji (until February 3) Saulos Chilima (from February 3) Events *May 8 – The Supreme Court of Malawi rejects a bid from President Peter Mutharika and upholds a lower court ruling that annulled last year's elections, paving the way for a new election that will be held on July 2. *May 28 – A manhunt is launched after hundreds of people, some with COVID-19, escape from quarantine centers in Malawi, with authorities worried that they will spread COVID-19 in countries whose health systems can be rapidly overwhelmed. Deaths *December 14 – Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye, 71, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lilongwe Lilongwe (, , ) is the capital and most populated city of the African country of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Malawi
The president of the Republic of Malawi ( ny, Mtsogoleri wa Dziko la Malawi) is the head of state and head of government of Malawi. The president leads the executive branch of the Government of Malawi and is the commander-in-chief of the Malawian Defence Force. Executive branch Under the 1995 constitution, the president, who is both head of state and head of government, is chosen through universal direct suffrage every 5 years. Malawi has a vice president who is elected with the president. The president has the option of appointing a second vice president, who must be from a different party. It also includes a presidentially appointed cabinet. The members of the cabinet of Malawi can be drawn from either within or outside of the legislature. The current President is Lazarus Chakwera sworn in as president of Malawi on 28th June 2020. Origins of the Presidency On 6 July 1964, Nyasaland became independent from British rule and renamed itself Malawi, with Elizabeth II as Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Malawi
The COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Malawi on 2 April 2020. It has spread to all districts of Malawi. Background On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Model-based simulations for Malawi indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number ''R t'' was stable below 1.0 from July to September 2020 but exceeded 1.0 the last three months of 2020. Timeline April to June 2020 * President Peter Mutharika confirmed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Malawi
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the mean yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Malawi
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Malawi
This article lists events from the year 2020 in Malawi. Incumbents * President: Peter Mutharika (until June 28), Lazarus Chakwera (from June 28) * Vice-President: Everton Chimulirenji (until February 3) Saulos Chilima (from February 3) Events *May 8 – The Supreme Court of Malawi rejects a bid from President Peter Mutharika and upholds a lower court ruling that annulled last year's elections, paving the way for a new election that will be held on July 2. *May 28 – A manhunt is launched after hundreds of people, some with COVID-19, escape from quarantine centers in Malawi, with authorities worried that they will spread COVID-19 in countries whose health systems can be rapidly overwhelmed. Deaths *December 14 – Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye, 71, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lilongwe Lilongwe (, , ) is the capital and most populated city of the African country of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Lilongwe
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe ( la, Archidioecesis Lilongvensis) is the Roman Catholic archdiocese located in Lilongwe in Malawi. Before its elevation to an archdiocese in 2011, it had belonged to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Blantyre. The Maula Cathedral is located in the town of Lilongwe. Timeline * July 31, 1889: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Nyassa from the Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika in Tanzania * February 12, 1897: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Nyassa * July 12, 1951: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Likuni * June 20, 1958: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Lilongwe * April 25, 1959: Promoted as Diocese of Lilongwe * February 9, 2011: Elevated to Archdiocese of Lilongwe Bishops * Vicars Apostolic of Nyassa (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph-Marie-Stanislas Dupont, M. Afr. (1897.02.12 – 1911.02.28) ** Bishop Mathurin Guillemé, M. Afr. (1911.02.24 – 1934.06.27) ** Bishop Joseph Ansgarius Julien, M. Afr. (1934.12.10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye
Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye (19 May 1949 – 14 December 2020) was a Malawian Roman Catholic archbishop. Ziyaye was born in Malawi and was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. He served as titular bishop of ''Macon'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dedza The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dedza ( la, Dedzaën(sis)) is a diocese in the city of Dedza, in the Ecclesiastical province of Lilongwe in Malawi. History *1956-04-29: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Dedza from the Apostolic Vicariate of ..., Malawi, from 1991 to 1993. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Lilongwe in 1993 and became Bishop of Lilongwe in 1994. In 2001 Ziyaye was appointed Archbishop of Blantyre. He was Archbishop of Lilongwe from 2013 until his death in 2020. Notes External links 1949 births 2020 deaths Malawian Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Lilongwe Roman Catholic archbishops of Blantyre Roman Catholic bishops of Lilongwe {{Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Africa
The COVID-19 pandemicpandemic was confirmed to have spread to Africa on 14 February 2020, with the first confirmed case announced in Egypt. The first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa was announced in Nigeria at the end of February 2020. Within three months, the virus had spread throughout the continent, as Lesotho, the last African sovereign state to have remained free of the virus, reported a case on 13 May 2020. By 26 May, it appeared that most African countries were experiencing community transmission, although testing capacity was limited. Most of the identified imported cases arrived from Europe and the United States rather than from China where the virus originated. In early June 2021, Africa faced a third wave of COVID infections with cases rising in 14 countries. By 4 July the continent recorded more than 251,000 new Covid cases, a 20% increase from the prior week and a 12% increase from the January peak. More than sixteen African countries, including Malawi and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, Anosmia, loss of smell, and Ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected Asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, Hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mutharika
Arthur Peter Mutharika (born 18 July 1940) is a Malawian politician and lawyer who was President of Malawi from May 2014 to June 2020. Mutharika has worked in the field of international justice, specialising in international economic law, international law and comparative constitutional law. He informally served as an adviser to his older brother, President Bingu wa Mutharika, on issues of foreign and domestic policy from the onset of his election campaign until the President's death on 5 April 2012. He has also held positions as Minister of Justice and later as Minister for Education, Science and Technology. Mutharika also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012. He was charged to help bridge relations between Malawi and the United Kingdom due to the deterioration of public diplomacy between the two nations after the Cochrane-Dyet controversy.http://www.nyasatimes.com/blog/2011/09/16/malawi-leader-sends-%e2%80%98brother-leader%e2%80%99-for-talks-with-uk/?#comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Malawian General Election
General elections were held in Malawi on 21 May 2019 to elect the President, National Assembly and local government councillors. Incumbent President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party was re-elected, with his party remaining the largest in the National Assembly. However, on 3 February 2020, the Constitutional Court annulled the presidential election results due to evidence of irregularities, and ordered fresh elections be held. They were widely dubbed the "Tipp-Ex elections" after a brand of correction fluid which opponents claimed had been used to tamper with votes. Electoral system The President of Malawi is elected using the first-past-the-post system; the candidate that receives the most votes is the winner of the election. The 193 members of the National Assembly are also elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies. Presidential candidates A total of ten candidates registered to contest the elections. Incumbent President Peter Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Malawi
The Judiciary of Malawi is the branch of the Government of Malawi which interprets and applies the laws of Malawi to ensure equal justice under law and to provide a mechanism for dispute resolution. The legal system of Malawi is based on English law, modified since 1969. The Constitution defines the judiciary as a hierarchical system of courts, with the highest court being a Supreme Court of Appeal, together with a High Court and a number of magistrates' courts. Malawian judiciary has frequently demonstrated its independence in recent years. The constitutional court of Malawi nullified the 2019 election results, citing widespread irregularities. The Supreme court upheld the verdict of the constitutional court. Five Constitutional Court judges who overturned the results of 2019 election has been nominated by UK thinktank Chatham House for the 2020 Chatham House Prize. Ultimately the judges went onto win the prize. Supreme Court of Appeal The Supreme Court of Appeal has jurisdict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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