NATIONAL NEWS (5369)
Mobile Telecommunication Operators Adhere To Tariff Reduction Directive
The Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has disclosed that most individual telecommunication operators in the country have adhered to its directive to revise downwards voice and text message charges.
Men Shunning STI Treatment in Mwanza
A surveillance of sexualy transmitted infections (STIs) conducted from January to December 2022 has revealed that 49 percent of people seeking such treatment in Mwanza district get re-infected.
Dr. Mugisha Re-Elected AFWASA President
The Managing Director of Uganda's National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) Dr Silver Mugisha has been re-elected as African Water Association President and the East African country’s capital, Kampala, has been voted to host the next AFWA Congress and Exhibition which is scheduled for February 2025.
Countries Urged to Include Women in Water Sector Policy Making
The International Forum of Professional Women for Water, Sanitation and Environment in Africa has highlighted the need to include women in policy and decision making in the water sector, observing that women suffer the most from the effects of poor sanitation.
MOH Non Committal on Banning Diapers
Ministry of Health is non committal on whether it is considering instituting a ban on the use of diapers as a measure of containing the raging Cholera epidemic among other illnesses.
ACB Advances on Source Books in Primary Schools
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it is finalizing the development of a source book on Anti-corruption education that will soon be inducted in the primary school education.
MUST Student Dies After Falling From Upstairs
A Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) second year student, Michael Mapanje, has died after falling from a second floor of one of the buildings on campus.
4 Jailed for Torchin Bvumbwe Police
Limbe Senior Resident Magistrate, Byson Masonga, has sentenced four men to seven years imprisonment for torching Bvumbwe Police Sub-station in Thyolo in January last year.
Chiefs Urged to Champion Girl Child Education in Phalombe
Chiefs in the country have been challenged to protect girls in ensuring that they remain in school as failure to do so affects the country’s economic growth.
MH Police Arrest Two Foreigners, Recover Fake Money, Printing Equipment
Barely days after Mangochi Police Station arrested, Panganani William, 21, for possessing K300, 000 fake banknotes, Fort Maguire Police Unit in the district have also arrested a Rwandan and a Burundian believed to be master-minders of processing the fake banknotes.
