National News
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Harmful ritual fuelling HIV infections
A focus group discussion by the Lilongwe District Aids Coordinating Committee (Dacc) with adolescents in traditional authorities (T/As) Kalumbu, Chadza…
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WFP to scale up productive asset creation activities
World Food Programme (WFP) says it is increasing investment in productive asset creation and value chain and livelihood support ahead…
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Court adjourns Illovo, shareholders case
The High Court Commercial Division has adjourned to May 9 2016 the case in which minority shareholders dragged to court…
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Tanzania deports six Malawians
Tanzania on Monday deported six Malawians who were found without requisite travel documents in Mbeya District in southern Tanzania. The…
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Nasfam hails private sector involvement in agriculture
National Association of Smallholder Farmers in Malawi (Nasfam) says involving the private sector in agriculture can enhance their capacity to…
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Mphwiyo plea taking fails
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo yesterday failed to take plea after his lawyers objected to the late…
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International NGOs welcome disaster appeal
International non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have welcomed President Peter Mutharika’s declaration of Malawi as a State of National Disaster, saying it…
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Poor start to tobacco sales
President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday opened the 2016 Tobacco Marketing Season in Lilongwe where 30 percent of bales offered under…
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MPs stop sale of government equipment
Some opposition members of Parliament (MPs) have obtained a court order stopping the sale of agro-processing machines which government bought…
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Nepad scaling up nutrition efforts
Recent consultation meetings held in six Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) countries have noted the need to…
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Former Nigerian President Obasanjo hails African Food Prize Awards
Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo says the African Food prize initiative worth $100 000 (about K64.3million) will help inspire those…
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Mutharika opens Malawi tobacco market
Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has said delays in revising the Tobacco Industry Act, coupled with a plethora of other local…
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Where are the trees?
There are several interventions to protect forests and their trees, but it seems deforestation is winning. ALBERT SHARRA writes. Slowly,…
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Senior US official visits MOZ refugees in Mwanza
A senior United States of America (USA) official yesterday visited thousands of Mozambican asylum seekers at Kapise Refugee Transit Centre…
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Chiradzulu alumni to improve school
Former students of Chiradzulu Secondary School (CSS) have pledged to hatch initiatives that will uplift the status of the…
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Inclusive girls education boosted in Mangochi
Blantyre Synod Education Department has committed to promote inclusive education among girls with disabilities as well as those coming from…
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Man arrested on suspicion of cultivating chamba
Police in Dowa have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion that he was cultivating Indian hemp, locally known as chamba.…
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Nkhotakota areas get boreholes, toilets
Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) has started rehabilitating boreholes and constructing toilets around Takumana Primary School in Senior Chief Mwadzama…
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Rise of residential pubs raises eyebrows
Some Mzuzu City residents have decried the rise in the number of night clubs in residential areas, alleging that…
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African swine fever outbreak hits Kradd
An outbreak of African swine fever, a disease that attacks pigs, has hit some parts of Chitipa in Karonga…
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