Lawyers usher in new committeeLawyers meeting at Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi have elected new office bearers for the Malawi Law Society to serve in its executive committee for the next During the elections held at the end of their two-day annual conference and general meeting, the lawyers have elected Burton Mhango as the new president…

Ease of access to health care is of great importance in any country but particularly for villagers living with HIV and Aids. However, some HIV patients in Blantyre are being forced to walk long distances of up 20 kilometres to collect their quarterly allocations of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs as BOBBY KABANGO found out: The death…

501 this year, from 417 in 2014 Female candidates’ numbers up 12% Out of 1 333 candidates 501 will compete on an independent ticket in the forthcoming elections, an approved list of parliamentary candidates released by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) shows. The figure represents a 17 percent increase, from 417 that competed in 2014.…

Two local top-notch pathologists and a foreign expert have been engaged to undertake an independent autopsy on the body of Buleya Lule, who died mysteriously while in police custody in Lilongwe on Wednesday. Blantyre-based College of Medicine pathologist Dr, Charles Dzamalala had to travel to Lilongwe to join fellow pathologist Damiwe Tomoka, based in Lilongwe,…

Thirty-eight political parties face deregistration after December 1 this year for failing to participate in this year’s tripartite elections and conducting elective national conventions as per the requirement of the new Political Parties Act 2018. The Act, which came into force on December 1 last year, empowers the Registrar of Political Parties to strike off…