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Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources students will have to wait longer before they resume studies after two trade unions differ on their ongoing strike.

President of University Workers’ Trade Union, Stevens Thengo, says his union will continue with their sit-in, in a bid to push for better remuneration.

“We started the strike with our colleagues, the Staff Union, who accepted the offer but we don’t want partial fulfillment of the demands. We will continue until every detail of the grievances are addressed,” said Thengo.

President of Luanar Staff Union, Dr. Sekanao Kasiya, says lecturers are returning to work because their concerns have been addressed and they are satisfied.

Dr. Kasiya said, “An offer was put on the table and we took it, that’s why we are going back to work. Of course our colleagues feel that the offer is not enough. This means Luanar Staff Union has called off the strike and will resume work."

The deadlock between the unions means classes will not resume without the support staff.

Last week, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources staff downed tools on realizing that their salaries and benefits were low compared to those in all other public universities.

Communities surrounding Chileka Admarc Depot in Lilongwe say they are hoping that maize sales continue, after authorities were forced to start selling the maize at the depot.

Commentators say rampant abuse of public funds and corruption among policy makers such as parliamentarians arises from the fact that the look at what they spend during campaign as an investment to benefit from.

The district commissioner for Lilongwe, Lawford Palani, has deployed a team in the area of T/A Chitekwere to assess the state of affairs between two warring villages where stakeholders expect to go and end a bloody land dispute.

Villagers at Masinja in Lilongwe have reportedly abandoned their homes following attacks by a neighboring village with whom they have been quarrelling over land.

After a day of clashes between street vendors and those plying trade at Tsoka, a designated market in Lilongwe’s old town, the Lilongwe City Council has committed to ensure sanity

Government has rejected blame it is dragging feet in implementing the access to information bill which effectively grants the media and other players enhanced freedom to access information.

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