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Thrown out
Politicians and government officials in councils have conspired against the poor they are supposed to serve, working in cohort to…
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Fr Boucher, Mua Mission in triple celebrations
The community around Mua Catholic Mission in Dedza held a triple celebration on Saturday when they commemorated 115 years of…
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Big fraud that is LDF, CDF, DDF
LDF, CDF and DDF—Malawi’s major local development financing mechanisms for improving the poor’s livelihoods and giving them better services—are on…
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Councils rocked with accounting indiscipline
Various district councils are embroiled in cases of non-compliance of basic accounting systems and failure to follow orders from the…
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MJ bars BWB from accessing intake
Communities around Mulanje Mountain are taking turns to guard a point at the foot of Mulanje Mountain to stop Blantyre…
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NFRA changes maize restocking strategy
Grain silos expert National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has announced a free-for-all supply of maize in its 2017 maize restocking…
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UNFPA gives K6.5m thumbs up to NPL Mothers Fun Run
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) today gave the 2017 Mothers Fun Run the thumbs up, making a…
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NFRA dumps tender maize-buying, for more inclusive open system
Grain silos expert National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has dumped plans to buy maize in its 2017 restocking exercise through…
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MW to roll out solar photovoltaic electrical training
Malawi will soon start training solar photovoltaic technicians to install and maintain solar PV equipment, which will effectively contribute towards…
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Egenco to invest in 3 power generators
Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) is in the process of purchasing heavy duty diesel generators to add 36 megawatts (MW) to…
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Leakages cost BWB 42% revenue
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) says it is losing at least 42 percent of potential income through non-revenue water resulting from…
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Missing girl found dead in BT
An eight-year-old girl who went missing at Khama in Machinjiri Township in Blantyre was found dead on Wednesday evening in…
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NGOs empower KU sex workers
Kasungu commercial sex workers have hailed a project by Theatre for a Change (Tfac) and Good Health Youth Organisation (GHYO)…
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3 arrested for possessing ivory
Kanengo Police Station in Lilongwe on Monday arrested three men for being found in possession of ivory. The three suspects,…
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Suspect pushes for removal of magistrate
First grade magistrate Thabman Chakaka Nyirenda has dismissed an application asking him to stop hearing a case in which his…
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RU men shun VMMC
Some men in Rumphi are shunning voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), saying it is against their culture and religion. According…
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APM addresses UN General Assembly
President Peter Mutharika addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon with an appeal to leaders to invest…
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Ousted MP Namasasu appointed deputy envoy to Japan
President Peter Mutharika has appointed ousted Lilongwe City South East member of Parliament (MP) Bentley Namasasu as Deputy Ambassador to…
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EIU joins push for Malawi electoral reforms
Barely a week after the European Union (EU) put more pressure on Malawi to effect electoral reforms ahead of the…
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K20 bn ‘Bankgate’ suspect committed to High Court
The Blantyre Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday committed to the High Court a Pakistan national arrested on Tuesday on suspicion that…
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