NATIONAL NEWS (5376)
140 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Mzimba
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services in conjunction with police in the north have arrested 140 illegal immigrants and two Malawian nationals in connection to immigration-related offenses.
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.
Malnutrition Haunts Children in Nsanje Camps
A nutrition assessment of under 5 children in flood survivors camps in the area of Traditional Authority Ndamera in Nsanje has revealed that over 100 children out of 419 were found to be moderately malnourished.
Neno DHO Cuts Food Supply to Patients
Neno district hospital has stopped providing food to patients admitted to the facility which has forced the patients to sound SOS to the hospital management and government saying this is compromising their health.
Phalombe Fertilizer Plant in Limbo
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.
Thyolo UTM Governor Faulted For Allocating Space Outside Market
Thyolo District governor for (UTM) party Charles George has been faulted for allegedly allocating space to fish vendors outside Thyolo flea market.
