NATIONAL NEWS (5382)
MEC Assures Electorates Of A Credible By Election
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is assuring electorates of a credible and transparent 26th October by-election.
Man Gets 14 Years For Armed Robbery
Joseph Kainga will spend the next 14 years in jail for robbing two foreign priests at one of the lodges in Karonga.
SACCOs Chapter Two Donates to Special Needs Centre
Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) Chapter two has stressed the need to assist children with disabilities to have access to education for them to become reliable citizens who will assist in the country’s development.
Kasungu Woman Sleeps With Decomposed Body of Daughter
A 39-year-old woman in Kasungu is in police custody for secretly keeping a dead body of her one-month-old baby in the house at Kasalika location in Kasungu municipality until it started to decompose.
YWAM Concerned with Girls Abuses
The Young Women Association of Malawi (YWCAM) has complained that young women and rural poor girls are still exposed to numerous sexual abuses in the country.
NAYO Records 50 STIs Monthly
A local organization in Blantyre has complained that lack of quality access to information on sexual reproductive health among the youth is fueling cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STIs).
Council Officials Drilled on PSII
The Public Sector Reform (PSR) has challenged local councils in the country to come up with viable innovations in order to improve delivery of services to the rural masses as authorities rolling out Public Sector Innovation Initiative (PSII).
Health Centre Stays Idle For 5 Yrs in Karonga
Despite government policy stating that people should access health services within a walkable distance, the situation is different to the people of Thawiro as they have to travel a distance of over 10kms in search of health services to Nyungwe health centre.
Art Therapy for Ending Child Abuses- SCI
Save the Children concluded its training on Wednesday in Neno district where it was drilling Community Facilitators on new ways of curbing sexual offenses using "Art Therapy."
Issue Maize Export Ban, Parley Ask Govt
The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture has renewed its earlier plea to government to issue a ban on maize export suggesting a position that alleging there may be pockets of food shortages in some parts of the country.
