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Chiefs want training before oil exploration
Traditional leaders in Karonga have asked oil and gas explorers to train communities along the shoreline of Lake Malawi…
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Nkhotakota launches Wash plan
Nkhotakota District Council has developed an investment plan for water, sanitation and hygiene (Wash) that, if implemented, will benefit…
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From bad to worse
Power generation woes have moved from bad to worse with a loss of 20 megawatts (MW) within a week,…
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Chief disappointed with subjects
Senior Chief Kaluluma of Kasungu on Friday expressed disappointment over the lack of interest in development projects by…
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Agricultural architecture does not support resilience—VP
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has said the country’s agricultural architecture is not resilient enough to withstand climate shocks. Delivering…
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Increased child marriages in Nsanje worries NGO
Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) has blamed local leaders, parents and guardians in Nsanje District for failing to eliminate child…
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Area 25 women sentencing Thursday
The Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court has on Tuesday adjourned to Thursday the sentencing of three women from Area 25 who are…
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Violence against children worsens in Malawi
Two out of three children in Malawi, some as young as one year old, are experiencing violence often by…
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Court convicts three for exhuming albino corpse
The Blantyre Magistrate’s Court on Monday convicted three people for unlawfully exhuming a human corpse contrary to Sections 131 (b)…
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Court dismisses MHC tenants injunction, judicial review
The High Court in Zomba has dismissed an injunction and an application for judicial review which Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC)…
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Tobacco growers urged to form cooperatives
Tobacco growers in the country have been asked to mobilise themselves into cooperatives so that they have a bargaining…
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Malawi salutes SA’s OR Tambo
Malawi says Africa needs a new spirited generation of Pan Africanists such as Oliver Reginald Tambo to champion the…
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Mutharika lifts maize export ban
President Peter Mutharika has ordered the immediate lifting of the maize export ban that government effected early this year to…
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Court orders Wandale mental exam
The Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court has ordered that Vincent Wandale, the self-styled supreme leader of the so-called United States of Thyolo…
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Unima misses out on HIV and Aids project
Frequent closures of constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (Unima) have made students pay dearly as they have…
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Government, FUM say rainfall tricky
While most parts of the country seem to have started receiving rains, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development and…
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Probe shows politicians abused Compensation Tribunal
The Ombudsman’s investigations have shown that politicians abused the National Compensation Tribunal (NCT) by influencing prioritisation and payments to politically-connected…
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Medf defaulters still owe K5bn
The Malawi Enterprise Development Fund (Medf) has recovered about K2 billion from loan defaulters after taking legal action against them,…
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Box 2 celebrates 75 years in style
Zomba Catholic Secondary School, commonly known as Box 2, on Saturday celebrated 75 years of existence with a call…
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Health services resume at Mlare
Karonga District Health Office (DHO) has deployed a medical officer at Mlare Health Centre which was closed when a…
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