NATIONAL NEWS (5372)
CRS Malawi Women Call For Equity
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Malawi women have been urged to embrace unity, if they are to achieve the goal of promoting gender equality and meeting the professional, health and development needs of women and girls.
Closure of Damaged Roads Affecting Our Business - MOAM
The Minibus Owners Association of Malawi (MOAM) says the closure of roads damaged by Cyclone Freddy has affected their businesses as diversions are forcing its membership and passengers to use long routes and which is costly.
2 Fined K250, 000 for Theft in Thyolo
Senior Resident Magistrate Assunta Maxwell has ordered 55-year old Chester Mpondo and Jonam Mandala, 25, to pay a fine of K250,000 each or in default to serve a one year jail term over theft in Thyolo.
85 Percent of Cyclone Freddy Survivors Suffering From Pneumonia in Thyolo Camps
A clinician at St Martin-Molele hospital in Thyolo is reporting that about 85 percent of Cyclone Freddy survivors are suffering from pneumonia in the area's evacuation camps.
FOM Responds to Cyclone Freddy in Mulanje
Friends of Mulanje (FOM) on Saturday joined a trail of individuals and organizations that are responding to Cyclone Freddy disaster in Mulanje district.
Maranatha Girls Cheer Freddy Survivors
Students from Maranatha Girls have reached out to 40 households that were displaced by Cyclone Freddy at Nkolokoti camp in Blantyre with relief items worth K2 million.
Mount Meru K3.5m worth cooking oil to Freddy Survivors
Mount Meru has donated 1 ton of cooking oil worth K3.5 million to the Department of Disaster and Management Affairs.
Tz Bails Out Malawi with Military and Humanitarian Aid
The Republic of Tanzania has deployed 94 soldiers, 59 of whom are combat engineers who will restore and rehabilitate infrastructure destroyed by Cyclone Freddy in the southern region.
Youth Advocacy Key in Ending Child Marriages and Harmful Practices
The Parent and Child Health Initiative through UNICEF has emphasized the need for the youths in the country to be ambassadors of change in areas of Child Marriages and Gender Based Violence.
Ligowe Community Confiscates Maize from Vendors
Villagers around Ligowe ADMARC depot in Neno district have on Friday evening, confiscated 30 bags of maize suspected to have been bought dubiously at the depot by a Mwanza based vendor.
