Stakeholders have made fresh calls for speedy amendment of the Mental Treatment Act of 1948 saying the law does not talk with other health and human rights laws.

Eastern Produce Malawi (EPM) Limited says it will continue responding to education needs in Mulanje and Thyolo districts. Apparently, the company is one of the biggest tea growing companies in the two districts.

Alumni of Luchenza Secondary School have launched a "buy a mattress campaign" on their Whatsapp forum in response to media reports that the school which is in Luchenza Municipality has only 270 mattresses against the required 600 mattresses.

Chiefs and villagers in Traditional Authority Njema in Mulanje District have expressed their gratitude to Eastern Produce Malawi (EPM) Limited, a tea growing company in Mulanje and Thyolo for rehabilitating Muluzi Bridge in Mulanje district.

Self Help Africa (SHA) formerly United Purpose (UP) says it’s rebranding to SHA will help the organization mobilize more funds for the implementation of its projects across the country.

Parkstreet Conventional Savings, Loan and Investment (PACOSALI) Foundation, a local money lending organization says collaterals and high interest rates bar poor people from accessing loans.

A senior education official in Mulanje has challenged children that were affected by the Tropical Cyclone Freddy and dropped out of school to go back to school as life has to go back to normal after the disaster.

Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has asked the country’s Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima to use his executive powers and push the Ministry of Transport and Public Works and Roads Authority to resume construct Muloza-Chiringa road which stalled two years ago.

The Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD) on Wednesday launched a K253.5 million cash transfer exercise under the Cyclone Freddy Response and Recovery Project in Traditional Authority Juma in Mulanje district.

Plan International Malawi has suggested the establishment of district bursary committees that will be mobilizing funds to support needy students.