Malawi needs K11.5bn in poverty eradication programme – official
Malawi Government needs about K11.5 billion every year to help eradicate poverty, Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development has said. Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development...
View ArticleMalawi Police, forestry officials crackdown on Viphya Plantation of illegal lags
Police in Malawi’s northern city of Mzuzu in conjunction with Forestry officials have arrested 44 foreigners mainly Tanzanians and Somalians in an operation meant to rid the 53 000 hectare Viphya...
View Article8 Malawi refs to officiate CAF games this weekend
Eight Malawian FIFA referees are expected to leave the country on Thursday and Friday respectively to officiate Confederation of African Football (CAF) matches in Botswana and Zambia on Saturday....
View ArticleMalawi commemorates world patients’ day amid drug shortage
On Monday February 11 Malawi commemorated the world patients’ day where different religious organisations conducted prayers as well as cheered the sick. The event which happened at Kamuzu Central...
View ArticleMalawi civil servants set for full scale strike
Malawi civil servants have resolved to embark on a full-scale strike, saying they have been provoked by government’s move to ambush them in announcing that the planned stay-away against poor salaries...
View ArticleMalawi education watchdog disapproves new University Act, says it’s ‘political’
The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) says the new University of Malawi Act scheduled for debate during the current sitting of Parliament, though long overdue, has the potential to politicize...
View ArticleU.S. rapper Da’ T.R.U.T.H. to meet Malawian teens on alcohol abuse
Celebrated United States gospel hip-hop artist Da’ T.R.U.T.H., who is scheduled to perform in Malawi this weekend will be meeting Malawian teenagers and sensitize them on the dangers of alcohol abuse....
View ArticleJB says Malawi to accord M’mbelwa befitting last post: State funeral for...
Malawi Government is working on giving a deserving send off to its departed Paramount Ngoni Chief Inkosi ya Makosi M’mbelwa 1V, President Joyce Banda has said. The influential and inspirational...
View ArticleAtupele responds to JB’s speech: Tips Malawi govt on economic revival
Leader of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF), Atupele Muluzi, says time has come for Malawian politicians to shift their focus from short term to long term imperatives that are at the heart...
View ArticleMalawi VP Kachali leads M’mbelwa’s body viewing
Thousands of Malawians from all walks of lives led by Vice President Khumbo Kachali paid their last respects to the late Inkosi Ya Makosi Mbelwa IV at Mtunthama residence, with preachers cautioning...
View ArticleBingu Tigresses trounce MTL: OG Issa netball league
Highly flying Bingu Tigresses yet again underscored their superiority over MTL Queens in the OG Issa Southern Region Netball League encounter after beating them 50-31 on Wednesday at Blantyre Youth...
View ArticleMalawi civil servants strike paralyses govt, officials call for talks
Malawi Government on Wednesday invited the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) committee to round table discussions after civil servants brought government business to a halt on Wednesday, as they staged...
View ArticleM’mbelwa IV state funeral draws mixed reactions
Malawi’s political commentators and human rights groups are expressing mixed reactions over government’s announcement that Ngoni Paramount Chief M’mbelwa IV of Mzimba will be accorded a State funeral...
View ArticleUK varsity to study Malawi’s child births beliefs
The UK based Institute for International Health and Development (IIHD) at Queen Margaret University will embark on a 12 months research project in Malawi to examine how attitudes to loss in...
View ArticlePaladin boss gets massive pay hike after Malawi job cuts
Despite uranium miner, Paladin Energy limited claiming that its Malawi operations in the northern district of Karonga at Kayelekera have been a cash cow and that world Uranium prices have been...
View ArticleMalawi leader swears in 4 new judges: JB urges impartiality
Malawi President Dr Joyce Banda has sworn-in four new judges at official Sanjika Palace this Thursday and advised them to ensure that they are guardians of the constitutions by upholding the rule of...
View ArticleMkhosi becomes M’mbelwa V after burial of Malawi’s Ngoni Paramount chief
Eldest son of the late Inkosi ya Makosi M’mbelwa IV, Mkhosi Jere, will ascend to chieftaincy after the burial of his father, Zwangendaba, who died Tuesday after a battle against diabetes in the...
View ArticleMalawi nurses to join strike if demands not met
A national crisis looms large after nurses and other staff in public hospitals have threatened to join ongoing civil servants’ stay-away if government fails to heed their grievances within 14 days.....
View ArticleBreak-in at Paladin’s Kayerekera mine: Malawi Police nab two for stealing MK2m
There was a minor break-in and robbery at Paladin’s Kayelekera uranium Mine in the early hours of Friday and Police in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga has since arrested two suspects believed...
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