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UNIMA students to elect president of students council

Sep 29, 2022 Malawi News Agency (MANA) 0 &

University of Malawi (UNIMA) students are expected to elect president of university students representative council tomorrow. Third year students, Ekari Orama Mathuka and Humble C Banda, will contest for presidency. Mathuka who is a current… ...

Malawi Police apologise for firing teargas within University of Malawi campus

Sep 26, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Malawi Police Service has apologised to University of Malawi (UNIMA) students after the law enforcers used teargas within the university as the police struggled to control students who were protesting. Eastern Region Commissioner Violet Magwaya… ...

UNIMA students to hold protests against ESCOM

Sep 19, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Innocencia Chikuse Students at the University of Malawi in Zomba have written Chief Executive Officer of ESCOM, Kamkwamba Kumwenda, requesting the company to supply the university teaching area with stable 24/7 electricity arguing that… ...

Students stop University of Malawi from creating schools

Sep 17, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Law students at the University of Malawi (Unima) have obtained an injunction stopping the university from abolishing faculties and creating schools of law, humanities, education, arts and sciences. The students argued in their application for… ...

Police fire teargas at University of Malawi students

Sep 09, 2022 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Police have fired teargas at University of Malawi (Unima) students in Zomba who are holding protests against a five-month holiday at the university. The students blocked the Charles Lwangwa Road and pelted stones at police… ...

UNIMA Child Rights Clinic to hold demonstrations over racist video

Jun 16, 2022 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Child Rights Legal Clinic at the University of Malawi (UNIMA) has organised demonstrations in Lilongwe on June 21 to protest against Chinese national Lu Ke who exploited Malawian children through a racist video. UNIMA Child… ...

Unima students protest against five-month holiday

May 05, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

University of Malawi (Unima) students have demanded the university to amend an academic calendar which include a 5-month holiday. The students, in a letter by Students Representative Council (SRC) and addressed to the Registrar, say… ...

University of Malawi law students launch journal

Mar 19, 2022 Contributor* 0 &

By Raphael Likaka Renowned legal practitioner, John Suzi Banda, has commended law students at the University of Malawi for launching a Students Law Journal, saying the journal is a step in the right direction for… ...

Social entrepreneurship competition held at University of Malawi

Mar 15, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

A social entrepreneurship competition under the theme "Creating two thousand jobs by the end of 2024" was recently conducted at University of Malawi. The competition was aimed at coordinating ideas of the 8 teams that… ...

UNIMA rejectees and graduates fight

Mar 14, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 3 &

While the world grapples with the possibility of an apocalypse due to a nuclear World War that could be triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Malawi has spent the weekend bickering over the University… ...

Heartbreaking! UNIMA student dies in her room of pregnancy complication

Nov 16, 2018 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 0 &

Tadala Chimutu, a third year University of Malawi student at Chancellor College passed away on Wednesday due to high blood pressure. She was seven months pregnant and was found dead in her room on Wednesday. Published… ...

Polytechnic dismisses bogus examination paper

Jul 23, 2018 Lyonike Mughogho 0 &

Management of the Malawi Polytechnic has rubbished a false examination paper which is currently in dissemination on social media. Last week, the examination paper claimed to be from the Faculty of Engineering started circulating on… ...

Safe motherhood on WhatsApp

Jul 20, 2018 Luke Bisani 0 &

Pregnancy was something that scared first time mother Tadala Namakhoma as she had no one around to advise her on what to do during the period. Living together with her husband Stevie Namakhoma in the… ...

Scotland to give College of Medicine K102 million

Apr 22, 2018 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The Scottish Government will give College of Medicine (CoM) £100,000 (about K102 million) over the next two years to assist the college as it is preparing to become a fully independent university. The announcement has… ...

University of Malawi students seek to foster gender equality in politics

Apr 20, 2018 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

University of Malawi students have set up a society to enhance the role that young women play in Malawi's politics. The organisation, called Prism, centres on inspiring and empowering young women across the country to… ...