Month: August 2024 Posts

CCJP calls for women’s participation in politics 

Aug 22, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Zomba Diocese has called on faith and traditional leaders to encourage women to participate in politics ahead of the 2025 general elections. CCJP Programmes Manager in Zomba… ...

Guardians at Zomba Central Hospital facing huge challenges

Aug 21, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Terrible! Details have emerged that guardians of patients in the labour ward at Zomba Central Hospital are sleeping in the open because of lack of space. In our most recent probe, we found women guardians… ...

Zomba Chingale legislator pleads for maternity services

Aug 21, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Member of Parliament for Chingale constituency, Lonnie Phiri, has pleaded with Zomba District Council to open a maternity facility at Chingale Health Center where expectant women are currently denied maternal services. The legislator observed that… ...

Every child has right to education – Ndaona

Aug 17, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Zomba District Council's Social Welfare Officer, Christopher Ndaona, says every child including those with a disability should be accorded the equal right to education per inclusive education policy. Ndaona made the remarks at Group Village… ...

Monica Chakwera applauds YODEP for promoting education

Aug 08, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

First Lady, Monica Chakwera has applauded Youth for Development and Productivity (YODEP) for promoting education in the country through the project called "Social Ecological Model Education." Chakwera was speaking at the University of Malawi in… ...

Chingale MP builds Junior Primary School

Aug 07, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Member of Parliament for Zomba Chingale, Lonnie Phiri, has constructed Kachere Junior Primary School using the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to allow learners in junior classes standards 1 to 4 to access education within a… ...

Fifty children sexually assaulted in Zomba

Aug 05, 2024 Raphael Likaka 0 &

Zomba Police Station has reported that 50 children have been defiled in Zomba from January to July this year. One of the Senior officers at the Victim Support Unit at the station, Assistant Superintendent Rose… ...