Women councilors in Salima have reiterated calls for 50-50 campaigners to support them in their different development interventions so that they can retain their seats while coaxing others to contest in the next general elections.

President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera is still skeptical to make a pronouncement on his stand regarding same-sex marriages amid growing concerns from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community who claim his silence is putting their lives at risk.

Oxfam has challenged Controlling officers in Councils and Ministry Departments and Agencies to up their game and take seriously adherence to Public Finance Management Systems which has an impact on effective service delivery to the citizenry.

A Standard 2 learner at Chikombola primary school, in the area of Senior Chief Kalonga in Salima has pleaded with authorities and well-wishers to consider constructing additional classroom blocks at her school, saying the current status of learning under a tree is challenging during rainy season.

Kindle Orphan Outreach in Salima says vocational skills training among the youths remains the only sure way of reducing the high unemployment rate in Malawi where a majority of young people do not attain tertiary education.

Girls who were readmitted in School after being rescued from early marriage and others who gave birth at a tender age have hailed peer-to-peer talk as the best way of encouraging more of such girls to go back to school.

Some Community members in Salima want suppliers of the Affordable Inputs Programme this year to sign an MOU with community representatives from the area where they have been assigned as one way of addressing the issue of suppliers shunning rural areas.

Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation CHRR says there is a growing need for stakeholders to raise awareness on procurement procedures by public procurement entities if suspicion of corrupt practices in public procurement is to be curtailed.

Sugarcane growers selling their cane to Salima Sugar Company can this year at least afford a smile as the company has committed to buying 30,000 metric tonnes of Sugarcane as compared to 10,000 metric tonnes last year and fifteen thousand metric tonnes from small scale and medium scale farmers within the company estate.