News In Southern Region (3244)
CEM Takes Renewable Energy Campaign to Balaka
Community Energy Malawi (CEM) through its Rural energy access - through social transformation Enterprise and decentralization (EASE) project conducted an awareness campaign in partnership with Malawi Regulatory Authority (MERA) and Malawi Bureau of Standards in Sub Traditional Authority Chakanza in Balaka District to raise awareness on standards of renewable energy technologies in Malawi.
Leprosy Resurfaced - Sueryder
Balaka district leprosy officer George Anafi has told Zodiak that there is need for an aggressive surveillance system in place to detect leprosy cases following 16 new cases that have resurfaced in the district but was quick to applaud the integration of leprosy and Tuberculosis as an exciting news since leprosy drastically scaled down after funding was halted in 1994.
NCA-DCA Speaks Highly on Community Engagements Benefits
The Norwegian Church Aid-DanChurchAid (NCA-DCA) says various inequalities people are facing to meet their social economic needs will only be defeated if duty bearers engage fully communities at any stage of project implementation.
Drama in PLO Leadership
The Registered Trustees of Peoples Land Organization (PLO) has written President Lazarus Chakwera of its intention to withdraw the 2016 declaration of Thyolo and Mulanje (MUST) as a sovereign state.
IG Penned to put Bvumbwe and Nansadi Under District Police
Thyolo District Commissioner Douglas Moffat said the council has written the Inspector General of Police to consider bringing back Bvumbwe and Nansadi Policing areas to Thyolo district council on the basis they are compromising security in the district.
Health Experts Differ on Covid19 Vaccine Uptake Stats
Health experts have given mixed views on the statistics released by the Presidential Taskforce on Covid 19 that one million Malawians are now fully vaccinated from the disease.
The Return of the Missing Grandfather
Kathumba village in Mulanje district was on Wednesday afternoon engulfed in a joyful mood when a 91 year who left the village in the early 1970s rejoined his siblings.
MHG Banana Farmers Call for Seed Multiplication
Banana Farmers in Machinga under Traditional Authority Chamba, have called for intensified banana seed multiplication exercises as a way of revamping the sector which has gone down due to Banana Bunchy Top Virus that has forced Malawi to import the fruits from Mozambique and Tanzania.
ESCOM Customers Protest 8 Month Blackout
Concerned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) customers from Ndalama Village have stormed Thyolo district council demanding the corporation to replace transformer after the other one developed a fault some eight months ago.
ESCOM Blames Local Suppliers in Delay to fix Faulty Transformers
The country's power supply body ESCOM says it is failing to maintain faulty transformers across the country due to low supply of the transformers by local manufacturers who have only thirteen out of the required eighty.
