The New Life Anointed Ministries has observed that lack of adequate and potable water is denying children learning in Community Based Care Centres (CBCC) access to quality early childhood education.

The Department of Forestry says it expects to sign an agreement with National Bank of Malawi (NBM) under the Adopt a Forest Initiative that cover 1,560 hectares of land in four districts.

Agriculture authorities in Phalombe have sounded an SOS to players in the agriculture sector to help smallholder farmers that lost crops to floods and dry spell with farm inputs to enable them venture into winter cropping.

Communities around Thundulu Phosphate mine in Phalombe have faulted the OPTICHEM 2000 Limited for failure to establish a fertilizer plant pledged under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 2013.

Health authorities in Phalombe say 669 girls out of 4, 123 who were impregnated in 2021 alone, procured unsafe abortions.

A local NGO, Network for Youth Development (NFYD) has underscored the need to equip mother groups and initiation counselors with knowledge on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) to ensure girls that are being readmitted to schools should not drop again owing to pregnancy.

Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) says it will release a detailed report this month end on how it has used financial and material support two months after President Lazarus Chakwera declared Malawi a State of National Disaster.

People on Anti- retroviral Therapy (ART) around Phalombe Health Centre have bemoaned lack of privacy when accessing treatment at the facility.

Department of Disaster and Management Affairs (DoDMA) says it is now time for Phalombe survivors of Cyclone Ana induced floods to go back home and reclaim their lives.

Phalombe District Education Network (PHADEN) has called on the authorities to formulate by-laws that can guide operation of markets and video show rooms to avoid disrupting learning processes in the district.