Group promotes widows’ welfare in Salima District
Malawi Widows Association (Mawa) says it has stepped up efforts to help improve the welfare of widows in Salima District. The organisation’s national board…
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Survey shows gaps in special needs education
A baseline survey on special needs education (SNE) by the Education Department of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia conducted in Nkhata Bay, Chitipa and…
Mzuzu CSOs summon minister
Youth and Society (YAS), together with 16 other Northern Region-based civil society organisations (CSOs), has summoned Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development…
BBC documentary highlights Malawi’s re-sentencing success
A documentary chronicling the impact of a resentencing project of inmates on death sentence in Malawi has hit the airwaves on the BBC World…
PAC plans presidential meet
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) will in March meet all the nine presidential candidates to make them sign a commitment to conducting a peaceful…
NRWB reverts to postpaid billing
Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) is replacing prepaid billing water meters with postpaid ones following a breakdown of the board’s prepaid vending system. In…
‘I abducted my albino stepson’
A stepfather to Goodson Makanjira, a boy with albinism who was abducted last week in Dedza, has pleaded guilty to the boy’s abduction. He…
How leaders fail Escom
The financial mess at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) can be traced to a compromised board and executive management that creates a fertile…
Dausi stirs trouble on albino killings
The Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) has withdrawn from the Presidential Task force on Persons with Albinism following what it says…
CCJP says chiefs key to ending early marriages
Mzuzu Diocese Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has said traditional leaders are critical to fighting ills of child marriages in Mzimba Districts…
BT North community furious over MP
Some concerned community members from Blantyre North Constituency have accused their legislator Francis Phiso of bypassing a project implementation committee on the construction of…
EU for natural ways of fighting fall armyworms
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Malawi Sandra Paesen has urged authorities and farmers in Malawi to promote natural ways of controlling fall armyworms,…
Vehicle rams into house, injures child
A lorry carrying bags of maize on Tuesday rammed into a house at Mpondagaga in Nkhotakota District, injuring a five-year-old child after it veered…
Breakthrough Christian Assembly promotes charity, voluntary work
Breakthrough Christian Assembly, a Lilongwe-based ministry, on Tuesday launched a charity project to promote and assist venerable people within and outside the city. In…
Dual Citizenship Bill to benefit Malawi—Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emmanuel Fabiano says Malawi stands to benefit from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) once the Dual Citizenship legislation…
UN for centralised Parliament support
The United Nations (UN) has centralised its support towards the National Assembly to promote a unified approach. After signing an agreement at Parliament Building…
Delegates bang heads over sanitation
Over 1 200 delegates from 84 countries are expected to brainstorm potential solutions to sanitation and hygiene woes in Africa at the fifth Faecal…
Tackle albino atrocities—EU
European Union Ambassador Sandra Paesen has called for serious criminal investigations and coordination among countries to fight abductions and killings of people with albinism.…
Court to hear missing MEC materials case
Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court will today hear a case where Manase Jossam, a Lilongwe Area 25 resident, was found with National Registration Bureau (NRB) and…
Audit exposes K118m CDF rot
E Nearly two years after revelations concerning some legislators abusing Constituency Development Fund (CDF), a recent National Audit Office (NAO) audit has established that…