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DPP hails Nkhata Bay communities for shunning demos
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has hailed communities in Nkhata Bay for shunning the nationwide demonstrations to force Malawi…
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Contractor at large after pocketing K5.6m
A contractor whom Nkhata Bay District Council hired to build a teacher’s house at Mzgola Community Day Secondary School in…
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Staff shortage cripples council’s performance
Institutional capacity specialist at the Local Government Accountability Project (LGAP) in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Brenda…
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MCH staff call off strike
Malawi College of Health Sciences (MCH) lecturers have suspended a strike they have been holding for close to a year…
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PAC to restrategise on electoral reforms
Public Affairs Committee (PAC) says it will re-strategise to have the Electoral Reforms Bill, which was shot in Parliament last…
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Cherry-picking new budget
Gwengwe faults, Chidanti hails, scoffs at financial plan Some opposition party spokespersons on Monday punched holes in the 2019/20 National…
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113 Malawians displaced in xenophobic attacks
About 113 Malawians are said to have been displaced in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Gauteng Province in…
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FIA passes regional test
The country’s Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) has joined the international world in efforts to combat financial crimes as the Eastern…
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Synod, CSOs in anti-quota demos
Organisers of demonstrations against equity-based university-selection system have said they will hold protests in the North on Thursday and Friday…
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Cama blasts Egenco on power outages
Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) says Electricity Generation Company (Egenco)’s announcement on reduced power generation capacity shows the company’s lack…
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UTM Party parades fourth witness
As the historic elections petition case progressed yesterday, a fourth witness for immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima took to the…
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Fire razes Mkaika Market stalls
Some traders are counting losses after fire razed makeshift stalls at Mkaika Market in Nkhotakota on Saturday night. The fire…
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SKC witness re-examined
Darlington Ndasauka, a witness for the immediate-past vice-president SaulosChilima, takes to the witness stand this morning for re-examination after days…
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Education gets lion’s share
Government has allocated K172.8 billion to the education sector in the 2019/20 National Budget, up from K142.2 billion in the…
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Donors, economists react to budget
The country’s development partners, local experts have described the K1.731 trillion 2019/20 National Budget as developmental, saying government has focused…
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Tax measures bring joy, pain
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha on Monday outlined tax measures that will bring joy and pain…
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Mwanamvekha unveils K1.7tn maiden budget
Economic experts and other development partners have described the 2019/20 National Budget as a ‘cautious’ financial plan. Minister of Finance,…
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NGO sensitises communities to brain, spinal defects
Parents Association of Spina-bifida and Hydrocephalus (Pashl) in Malawi is raising awareness on the two conditions that lead to defects…
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‘Suppliers cheat govt in Malata, Cement Subsidy’
Taxpayers risk losing money to fraud following an allegation that some suppliers in the K7 billion Decent and Affordable Housing…
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Group donates ambulance
A grouping of people from Chiradzulu South Constituency, Zakwathu ku Namitambo (ZKN), on Saturday donated a K12 million ambulance to…
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