NATIONAL NEWS (5285)
The Plight of Street Vendors: Economic Survival Versus the Law and Costs
Street vending is a myriad of implications lamped in one basket. It is an attempt at economic survival for most less privileged. Street vending is also a problem when it comes to sanitation and hygiene. Cleaning cities is difficult. It is also a loss of revenue in daily market fees for district or city councils.
K2bn More for Wowo Irrigation Scheme in Phalombe
Wowo Irrigation Scheme in Traditional Authority Nkhulambe in Phalombe needs an extra 2 billion kwacha to start benefiting about 1, 600 farmers in the district as the contractor races against time to complete the project by November this year.
Human Resource Constraints Choke Legal Aid Operations
The Legal Aid Bureau says delays in amending the legal aid act is choking its operations as it is overwhelmed with handling matters in smaller courts.
Chinolampeni CDSS Operating Without a Science Lab for Over 2 Decades
Chinolampeni Community Day Secondary School in Phalombe has been operating without a science laboratory and library for over two decades.
Malawi Misses Out on WIPO Innovation Report
The absence of Malawi from the 16th edition of the World Intellectual Property Organization, (WIPO) Global Innovation Index 2023 report has caused an uproar from some sectors in the country.
WVI Malawi Hailed for Good Start in WASH Implementation
Communities of Lusale Traditional Authority Makhambira say they now feel safe from threats of waterborne diseases following construction of a 22 million Kwacha worth mechanized solar powered water supply system by World Vision Malawi serving over 700 households.
The communities say that, with the district too prone to waterborne diseases, such as Cholera, good water, sanitation and health WASH facilities are all that they need to beat such outbreaks.
Chairperson for Lisale mechanized solar powered water system Emily Mwase says communities from the area used to drink water direct from the stream and other unprotected sources a thing that was putting them at risk.
“This area has not registered any Cholera case recently because each household drinks safe water from the communal taps, it has clean pit latrines and also good hand washing facilities. We are grateful,” she said
In 2020, World Vision Malawi’s Sanga Area Program embarked on a project to install a water supply system with a ten-thousand-liter reservoir tank to three communities and three school at Lusale in Traditional Authority Mankhambira.
A team of World Vision WASH professionals from 20 countries in east and central Africa that is in the country for a three-week WASH capacity building training program by the Dessert Research Institute DRI and Mzuzu University, visited the area to appreciate and get hands on information on implementation of the WASH program in Nkhatabay.
Lead trainer from DRI Dr. Braimah Apambire has applauded WASH interventions being carried out at Sanga, saying the cadres have learnt a lot from what is being done and hope they will be able to apply it in their respective countries
“This face-to-face interaction is important for students as it gives them practical knowledge apart from the class and laboratory work which are part of the course outline,” said Apambire.
Sanga Area program manager Elarton Thawani says apart from the 22 million Kwacha mechanized solar powered water system, the project has also drilled 11 boreholes fitted with hand pumps serving about 3000 people, and also constructed pit-latrines in five different primary schools.
The 35 WASH cadres being trained have been drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leon, Senegal, Malawi just to mention a few.
Chakwera Pays Tribute to JZU
President Lazarus Chakwera has led Malawians in viewing of the body of late veteran politician John Zenus Ungapake Tembo at the MCP headquarters in Lilongwe.
Cholera resurfaces in Malawi, Rapid Response Teams Formed to Fight the Disease
Concerned by the resurfacing of cholera cases in some districts, authorities in Chikwawa have intensified rapid response teams along the borders with Mozambique in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
Oxfam says More Support Needed for TCF response
Oxfam Canada Chief Executive Director Lauren Ravon, says there is need of more support for people affected by the Tropical Cyclone Freddy (TCF) to aid them recover from the effects of the disaster which hit the southern region districts early this year.
IRS Aims At 99.9% Free Malaria Balaka
Balaka district council says the target for this year's Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS), a project that kills anopheles mosquitoes in residential areas, is to reach 99.9 percent effectiveness.
