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British boy cycles 125km for Malawi school
A 17-year-old British student last week cycled a distance of 125.5 kilometres (km) in England to raise funds for the…
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MHRC to research on albino killings
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) says it intends to conduct research to determine factors behind the belief that organs of…
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Must, Strathclyde University in biomedical research
Malawi University of Science and Technology (Must) has collaborated with Scotland’s University of Strathclyde to conduct a state-of-the-art research that…
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JCE exams start tomorrow, over 143 000 candidates register
At least 143 134 candidates are expected to sit the two-week Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) examinations which start tomorrow…
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Mutharika, clergy discuss albino killings
President Peter Mutharika has asked the clergy to break the cycle of moral decadence which has left people with albinism…
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NGOs query NGO policy development process
Some Lilongwe-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have raised concern over the manner the consultative process for the development of the NGO…
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Government faulted on pension law
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe’s announcement that civil servants will again not join the National Pension…
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‘Ghost’ teachers back on payroll
Over 600 public primary and secondary school teachers out of the 1000 that were erroneously listed as ghost workers and…
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Engineers urged to fight water, power challenges
The Malawi Institute of Engineers (MIE) has urged engineers to help find ways of scaling up supply of portable water…
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Medf threatens to take legal action against defaulters
The Malawi Enterprise Development Fund (Medf) has threatened to take legal action against individuals and groups who have failed to…
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Red Star campaign hits a snag
Blantyre City Council (BCC) will have to wait a little longer before it starts enforcing demolition of earmarked buildings under…
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Mulanje MP calls for death bill
Mulanje South Member of Parliament Elias Bon Kalindo (Democratic Progressive Party–DPP) on Friday dramatically epitomised the anger felt by…
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2016/17 Budget winners and losers
Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe’s painstaking work to balance the K1 136.4 trillion 2016/17 National Budget…
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It’s Bingu highway!
Paramount Chief Kyungu has defied murmurs of protests to name the 102-kilometre Chitipa-Karonga Road after Bingu wa Mutharika, a…
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ACB says Odillo, others face 7 counts
Former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) commander Henry Odillo and others face seven counts of corruption, negligence and money laundering-related…
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Unions query 15% pay increment
The Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) and Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) yesterday expressed reservations with Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe’s…
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M2M in cycle to zero challenge from Sunday to Wednesday
Mothers2mothers (m2m), an African-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) working in the area of paediatric HIV and Aids, has organised a cycle…
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Opposition say budget to increase poverty
Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall yesterday unveiled a K1.1 trillion 2016/17 National Budget which the opposition said…
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Donors welcome ‘IMF couched’ budget
The country’s bilateral and multilateral donors yesterday welcomed as realistic the K1.2 trillion 2016/17 National Budget with both the…
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Brave budget
Malawians affected by dry spells and flooding can breathe a sigh of relief as the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning…
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