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Dry towns sitting on water vaults
A rush to the rivers below the country’s drying towns bares new promising groundwater levels, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA…
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HRDC holds peaceful demos
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration on the third day of its planned four-day anti-Jane Ansah…
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Chakwera’s lawyer robbed
Unknown assailants on Wednesday night broke into the house of Pempho Likongwe, one of the lawyers representing Malawi Congress Party…
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Speaker suspends 2 MPs for chaos
Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara has slapped two legislators with two days ban each for causing disorder in the…
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PAC goes back to Mutharika, others
Public Affairs Committee (PAC) says it is set for a second phase of dialogue meetings with President Peter Mutharika and…
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Blantyre vendors defy city order
Despite Blantyre City Council (BCC) warning vendors to leave the streets and shop verandas, the situation remains the same four…
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Save the Children Malawi decries child marriages
Save the Children Malawi country director Kim Koch has said high child marriage cases remain a key development challenge to…
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Salima fisheries office bemoans low staffing
Salima District Fisheries office has bemoaned shortage of staff which it says has negatively contributed to overfishing in Lake Malawi…
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Ntchisi District Hospital needs X-Ray machine
Ntchisi District Hospital has appealed for support from well-wishers to assist the facility with a modern digital X-ray machine to…
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‘Karonga DC offices won’t be constructed soon’
Karonga residents have to wait a little longer before the reconstruction of the district council offices that angry anti-Jane Ansah…
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Rumphi chiefs strategise to foil demonstrations
Some traditional leaders in Rumphi District are reportedly planning to stop the anti-Jane Ansah and ‘Quota Must Fall’ demonstrations from…
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Project explores ways to reduce tobacco-related harm
Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) Malawi, a project under the United Kingdom’s Knowledge Action Change, is exploring ways to help the…
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Over 1 million Malawians to require food assistance
A total of 1 062 674 people, out of the total estimated Malawi rural population of 14 747 257 will…
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Court snubs Mutharika lawyer, adjourns to Friday
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday rebuffed a notice by lawyer representing President Peter Mutharika to use a Malawi Electoral Commission…
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CCJP trains communities in citizen journalism
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Chikwawa has trained communities in citizen journalism reporting, with a call to…
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Wolrec donates phones to young women
Women’s Legal Resources Centre (Wolrec) has donated eight phones to Young Women in Active Groups (Ywag) in Mzimba and Rumphi…
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Karonga activates health standard operating procedures
Karonga District Council has activated the standard operation procedures (SOPs) it adopted in 2017 for use in the district’s health…
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Mera warns filling stations on standards
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has threatened to revoke licences for fuel station operators who fail to comply with quality…
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Power woes back
Power outages are back to haunt Malawians as Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has revived a six-hour rolling loadshedding…
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Prepare supporters for court outcome—Bushiri
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri has asked political leaders to prepare their supporters to accept the decision of the…
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