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Kamlepo wants Deputy Speakers suspended
Member of Parliament for Rumphi East, Kamlepo Kalua, is this week expected to move a motion to have First…
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‘Despite turmoil, APM may win 2019’
President Peter Mutharika is likely to face more political upheavals than previously anticipated, but he is likely to win…
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House shoots down OPC cuts, passes budget
Parliament yesterday passed the 2015/16 financial year revised mid-term budget pegged at K906.0 billion during a dramatic legislative day that…
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CCJP queries govt over Njauju, K557bn audit
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has challenged government to find the murderers of Anti-Corruption Bureau senior official Issa…
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Still no maize In districts
Two weeks after the Ministry of Agriculture, National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) and Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) officials…
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Groups rip govt apart on maize
The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and the Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) have blamed the maize shortage in the country…
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Whirlwind damages school, property
A public primary school building and private property have been partly damaged at Manja Township in Blantyre after a strong…
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World Bank to fund Comsip until 2018
The World Bank will fund the Community Savings and Investment Promotion (Comsip) with $4 million (about K3 billion) for the…
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Malawi to benefit from MasterCard project
Malawi, alongside 24 other African countries from the sub-Saharan region, stand to benefit from the MasterCard Foundation – Fund for…
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Dedza drug vendor fined K150 000
The Dedza third grade magistrate’s court on Thursday slapped 38-year-old vendor Victor Ulaya with a fine of K150 000 for…
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QECH dialysis unit back in operation
The dialysis unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre is now fully operational and patients who were relocated…
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Balaka Police cautions bicycle taxi operators
Balaka Police Station traffic officer Julius Phiri has advised bicycle taxi operators in the district to observe road signs…
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Dowa calls for scrutiny of Macoha beneficiaries
Dowa District Council director of administration Steve Chima has asked Malawi Council for the Handicapped (Macoha) to scrutinise needy…
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Neno woman gets 3 years for baby dumping
Neno Second Grade Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced Velibesi Chigwale,26, to three years and four months imprisonment…
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NRC Student beaten to death
A 20-year-old Natural Resources College (NRC) student in Lilongwe was pronounced dead on arrival at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH)…
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Karonga starts harvesting rice,cassava
A visit to Kaporo, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kilupula on Wednesday revealed that some of the rain-fed crops such as…
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40 girls drop out from Mzenga Secondary School
A journey that started with 42 girls enrolled at Mzenga Community Day Secondary School in Nkhata Bay five years…
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Parliament budget under contention
Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday joined hands to protest a minimal increase of K100 million in the allocation for…
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We believe in the future of gender equality—UNFPA
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) deputy representative Rogaia Abdelrahim says prevailing threats and challenges to advance the rights of women…
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Humanitarian tragedy at Kapise Refugee Camp
When some asylum seekers begun settling at Kasipe Refugee Camp in Mwanza last year, they thought they would be…
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