Senior Chief Makhwira of Chikwawa district has been laid to rest at a ceremony where minister of local government urged royal families to stop overburdening the courts with chieftaincy wrangle cases.

The Catholic Bishop in Chikwawa diocese has asked government and donors to address challenges of lack of drugs and essential medical equipment in public health facilities in order to improve health service delivery.

A cattle company, African Cattle Ranch, has come under fire in Chikwawa for failing to pay livestock farmers and vendors who sold their cattle on credit at the company due to unavailability of reliable markets.

People with disabilities (PWDs) in Lower Shire have asked government and development partners to step up vocational skills interventions to target majority of them to be self-reliant.

Chikwawa Diocese of the Catholic Church on Thursday launched a tree planting programme at Kunyondo Primary School where it suggested a massive civic education exercise to halt land encroachment.

The embattled Senior Chief Ngabu of Chikwawa has asked President Peter Mutharika to institute a fresh commission of inquiry to probe his conduct.

In Chikwawa district, where people have not been spared the whip of hunger this season, traditional leaders are reporting situations beckoning rapid response.

A girl child has been killed and three others seriously injured in Nsanje after walls of the houses they were living in fell on them.

A girl child has been killed by floods while three other people have been injured in Nsanje district after walls of the houses collapsed following rains upstream.