News In Northern Region (496)
Report Your Employees to ACB - President Chakwera Told
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition-HRDC has asked President Lazarus Chakwera to report to the Anti-Corruption Bureau – ACB, all individuals who are using State House name in corrupt practices like unlawfully encroaching on public land.
Start Monitoring New HIV Variant - Govt Advised
Health experts have tipped government to revisit HIV and Aids management systems amid international reports of a new strain of the virus which is said to be more severe than the current variant of HIV.
CCJP Moves in to Check Financial Management in Local Councils
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace says continued abuse of public resources in local councils is due to shunning residents from participating in financial management activities like tendering of big projects.
Old Mutual Invests K4.5million In Restoring Forest Cover
Old Mutual Malawi says it is sad that the country continues to lose about 32,000 hectares of forest cover due to cutting down of trees for wood and charcoal every year at a time the country is already racing to 2040 which has been predicted that Malawi will have exhausted its off-reserve.
Reaping the Fruits of Social Cash Transfer
Feed the Children in Food and Nutrition Project
Lisap To Construct 17 ECD Centers In Rumphi
The Livingstonia Synod Aids Program - LISAP has disclosed that it will invest K60 million in the construction of 17 Early Childhood Development Centers in the area of traditional authority Mwahenga in Rumphi to allow children there to attend early education.
LISAP Executive Director Jonathan Vumu says they have decided to embark on early childhood education in the area because there has never been any center offering such services to children before.
``If these children start primary school education this January, teachers will not have problems teaching them because the students will have knowledge on some of the things that happen at the school", Says Vumu.
He explained that the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia would like to improve the country’s education system by ensuring that almost all children have access to quality education.
So far, LISAP with financial support from UK-based Comic relief through Help a Child, has already constructed six Early Childhood Development Centers in the area.
Rumphi District Social Welfare Officer Zindaba Lungu hailed efforts by Lisap saying this will ensure that more children will now attend education in the district.
Said Lungu: ``This only shows that LISAP is a true partner for development. Government is happy with this development"
Meanwhile, first group of more than 150 learners has graduated from ECD's and are set to start primary school education this coming December.
There are about 341 Early Childhood Development Centers in Rumphi.
NGO Board, CONGOMA Shelves Operations of CSOs in Mzimba
The NGO Board and Council for Non-Governmental organizations in Malawi have ordered the Mzimba Civil Society Organizations Network to immediately stop working in the district accusing it of being in disrepute with the M'Mbelwa district council.
NGO Worried with Number of Men Shunning Family Planning Methods
A survey by the White Ribbon Alliance Malawi has revealed that only 2 percent of the men population in the country are accessing modern family planning methods saying this may have negative effects on population growth in the country.
Mzuzu Residents Happy with Extra Constituencies
Some people in Mzuzu have expressed satisfaction with the Malawi Electoral Commission’s - MEC decision to add two more constituencies in the city.
