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Maizegate in Mchinji as Council employees follow Chaponda’s footsteps

Feb 21, 2017 35

Two Mchinji District Council employees are answering charges of theft by public servant after they stole 25 bags of maize meant for victims of a disaster in the district. The two who are driver Lytton… ...

Lucius gives loans to women in Balaka

Feb 21, 2017 134

In an effort to empower women in his Balaka North constituency, Member of Parliament Lucius Banda has offered loans to the women. Writing on his Facebook account, Banda said the women were excited upon receiving… ...

Govt, mobile firm in COMESA court over licence cancellation

Feb 21, 2017 1

Zambian judge Lombe Chibesakunda and her bench have started hearing a case involving the government of Malawi and a telecommunication company, Malawi Mobile Limited (MML), at the COMESA Court of Justice (CCJ) in Khartoum, Sudan.… ...

Malawian man hangs himself for being found HIV positive

Feb 21, 2017 122

A 49 year-old man identified as Sadiki Sumani has hanged himself to a tree after being tested HIV positive in Mangochi district. According to Mangochi police spokesperson Rodrick Maida, Sumani had been sick for a… ...

ATI law brings Malawi’s mining communities hope – HRW

Feb 21, 2017 2

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the signing of Access to Information (ATI) Bill into law by President Peter Mutharika can bring hope to mining communities in the country who were failing to… ...

TEVET champions #MakeMalawiGreenAgain

Feb 20, 2017 2

As various stakeholders are vowing to make Malawi green again, the Technical Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) Authority engaged Blantyre Synod Youth Development in planting 2000 tree seedlings at Ulongwe hill in Mulanje… ...

Japan gives MBC K465m

Feb 20, 2017 111

The Japanese government has provided a grant of 465 million Kwacha to Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) for the improvement of television broadcasting equipment. The money has been provided under the Japanese Cultural Grant Assistance and… ...