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MHC junior staff down tools over salary disparities
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) junior employees have vowed not to resume work if the corporation will not address the issue…
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Mhen wants health facilities spared from load shedding
The Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) has called on authorities to act swiftly in addressing the electricity challenges facing the…
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‘Blessings Tembo’s contract has two expiry dates’
There is a new twist to the transfer saga of Silver Strikers’ captain Blessings Tembo to Be Forward Wanderers…
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Parties plan for conventions
As time draws closer to next year’s tripartite elections, some major political parties have started planning for national conventions…
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DPP sticks with Chaponda, says no pressure to fire him
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has challenged its critics saying there is no legitimate reason for the party to…
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Hospital ejects Wandale guardian
Management of Zomba Mental Hospital has removed a guardian of leader of Peoples Land Organisation Vincent Wandale contrary to…
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‘Child vending exposing girls to sexual violence’
Some teachers in Mangochi have expressed concern with the tendency of parents to send their children in the streets to…
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Cholera reported in the capital
The Ministry of Health is on high alert in Lilongwe after the capital city registered two suspected cases of the…
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APM outlines 2018 plans, CHRR demands more
President Peter Mutharika yesterday outlined a number of developmental programmes his government intends to embark on in 2018, including the…
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Chiefs fault new Fisp system
Say 2017/18 programme the worst Govt says chiefs bitter for not being involved Some traditional leaders in the country have…
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Pacenet for support towards grassroots engagement
Pan-African Civic Educators Network (Pacenet) has called on development partners and managers of the 50:50 national campaign to support a…
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Increase in defilement cases worries police
Inspector General (IG) of Police Lexten Kachama has described the just-ended year as a mixed bag where general crime rate…
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Unicef urges Malawi to step up neonatal healthcare in 2018
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has challenged the Malawi government to introduce safety measures to ensure newborns survive their…
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Seven die in Chikangawa accident
Seven people died in a road accident on Saturday near Elephant Rock along Chikangawa Forest on the M1 Road in…
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First Lady in cervical cancer awareness
First Lady Gertrude Mutharika has asked women in the country to go for cervical cancer screening to reduce the death…
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Govt powers 85 health facilities
As power outages continue to threaten the delivery of quality services, government has installed solar-powered electricity in 85 health facilities…
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Nine judge panel for appeals
The Supreme Court of Appeal has adjusted the number of justices per panel from the current three to nine in…
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Another year of judicial recusal requests, rebuffs
The year 2017 was fascinating in the country’s courts. Not because of the maizegate case that involved a senior and…
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Screen mosquito nets hailed for Malaria reduction
People in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chigalu in Mdeka, Blantyre have hailed the initiative by Lighthouse Foundation…
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Girl student hospitalised after alleged police brutality
A 15-year-old Providence Girls Secondary School student is in critical condition at Mercy James Paediatric Clinic at Queen Elizabeth Central…
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