Month: January 2022 Posts

Floods wash away newly constructed road

Jan 08, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Floods have washed away part of the K11 billion Nsanje-Marka road recently constructed by China Railway-20, a Chinese Contractor. The flash floods have caused havoc in some parts of the district mainly in Senior Chief… ...

Motorists evading toll gate payments

Nov 23, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Motorists are evading toll gate fees at Chingeni Toll Plaza by using by using alternative routes where they are required to pay a small amount to pass through roadblocks erected by communities. Government started collecting… ...

Tollgates to squeeze ministers too – Kazako

Nov 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

We might be together in this. Information Minister Gospel Kazako has announced that cabinet ministers will also be paying at the tollgates being rolled out in the country. Kazako has been quoted in the media… ...

Motorcyclist arrested for using road temporarily reserved for Malawi President

Nov 21, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

A 25-year-old motorcyclist in Kasungu has been arrested for riding on a road which was temporarily reserved for the presidential convoy. The motorcyclist, Biziwiki Chigaru, has been charged with reckless and negligent act. Kasungu Police… ...

Roads Authority fined K6.3 million for felling trees along Kenyatta Drive

Oct 23, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 2 &

The Roads Authority (RA) has been fined K6.3 million following the cutting down of over 1000 trees along the Kenyatta Drive in Lilongwe. The Kenyatta Drive is being expanded to six lanes and this has… ...

Environmentalists want Kenyatta road project stopped

Oct 13, 2021 Martha Chikoti 2 &

Environmentalists say the Kenyatta Drive expansion project, which has led to the felling of over 1000 trees, should be stopped to pave way for an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA). Malawi Parliamentary Conversation Caucus… ...

Slow progress of Thabwa-East Bank road project worries MP

Oct 12, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Parliamentarian for Chikwawa East Constituency, Rodrick Khumbanyiwa, has expressed worry over the delay in completing the construction of the 60 kilometers Thabwa - Fatima East bank road which stalled earlier this year due to funding… ...

980 trees make way for road in Lilongwe

Oct 01, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

The Lilongwe City Council says a total of 980 trees have been felled along the M1 road to pave way for road expansion projects. In addition, a total of 316 mibawa trees and 85 gmelina… ...

Mzuzu introduces night market

Oct 01, 2021 Mike Lyson Zgambo 0 &

Mzuzu City Council has introduced a night market where vendors will be allowed to sell merchandise on a road from 6PM to 9PM. This has been done in order to reduce congestion and unnecessary accidents… ...

Rights group wants RA board reconstituted

Sep 21, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Centre for Mindset Change (CMC) has called on President Lazarus Chakwera to reconstitute the board of Roads Authority (RA) and change the authority’s top management saying the RA is failing to handle some incompetent contractors… ...

Minibus crash kills seven people in Dowa

Sep 13, 2021 Lameck Kamtoseni 0 &

Seven people have died in a road accident that occurred at Katengeza along Salima-Lilongwe M14 road in Dowa today. According to Dowa Police Spokesperson Gladson M'bumpha, the accident occurred at Katengeza Trading Centre around 05:30… ...

Mota draws in another corruption controversy

Sep 09, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Mota Engil is at the centre of another corruption controversy as a rights group has asked the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate the company and Roads Authority (RA) over the cost of the Area 18… ...

Pagalaundi pakusintha – Chakwera   

Aug 31, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says the beginning of the Kenyatta road expansion project in Lilongwe is clear evidence that “pagalaundi pakusintha”. He made the remarks at BICC in Lilongwe this morning during the groundbreaking ceremony for… ...

Chakwera to launch upgrading works on Kenyatta Drive

Aug 30, 2021 Russell Kondowe 1 &

President Lazarus Chakwera will tomorrow preside over the ground breaking ceremony for the upgrading works on Kenyatta Drive and Mzimba Street in Lilongwe. Secretary to the President and Cabinet Zangazanga Chikhosi has announced this in… ...

Upgrading works on Kenyatta Road to start soon – RA

Aug 25, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

The Roads Authority (RA) says it will soon start works to upgrade Kenyatta Road and Sharrar street in Lilongwe from two lanes to six lanes. Kenyatta Roads starts from Parliament Roundabout through Bisnowaty past Tsoka… ...