The theme for the 2024 International Literacy Day is "Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace". This is an important theme because multilingualism entails recognising and promoting other languages beyond dominant ones.
A month-long shortage of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) on the local market has left many Malawians, who rely on gas for cooking and heating, stranded as they are unable to refill their cylinders.
The Ministry of Trade, in the wee hours of Friday, foiled a suspected smuggling of 300 bales of Malawi sugar into Zambia by one foreign national.
Latest figures indicate that Malawi's child labour prevalence rate is currently at 38 percent.
A new study by the Afro-barometer has found that support for democracy is on a decline with 23 percent since 2012, and that a slim majority of the citizenry say Malawi is "a democracy with major problems."
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