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WHO warns on local health financing
The World Health Orgnisation (WHO) has slammed low income countries, including Malawi, for not prioritising domestic health financing, depending on…
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Albino kidnap suspect dies
Buleya Lule, a suspect who allegedly offered to ‘buy’ a 14-year-old Dedza boy with albinism for K800 000 last week,…
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No tree planted in K5bn youth scheme
This year’s National Tree Planting Season is set to end on April 15, but the ambitious K5 billion Malawi Youth…
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City courts stakeholders on street kids welfare
Blantyre City Council (BCC) on Thursday engaged its partners to discuss the welfare of street kids in the city. The…
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Balaka schools armed against TB
Ministry of Health has intensified tuberculosis (TB) awareness in Balaka District by promoting the newly published TB sourcebook for primary…
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Culture fuelling child labour in Dowa—ministry
Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development officials say besides social and economic factors, culture is also partly to…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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PAC plans presidential meet
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) will in March meet all the nine presidential candidates to make them sign a commitment…
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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…
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‘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…
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How leaders fail Escom
The financial mess at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) can be traced to a compromised board and executive management…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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