The Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM) has challenged farmers to continue working hard despite the sector facing numerous challenges.

Commissioner of Police for South East Region Chikondi Chingadza says the region is now in full operation with all sections available and vibrant and an increase of manpower at the region’s Police Mobile Service’s G-Division.

Graduated trainees for the last two cohorts at Mulanje Vocational School for the Blind have expressed worry over delays by the institution to give them their resettlement packages which they receive after graduation.

As the country continues registering cholera cases, health rights activists George Jobe and Maziko Matemba have observed that the fight against the disease needs multi-sectoral collaboration as it is unhygienic related disease.

Road users and communities along the Chiringa - Muloza road which connects Phalombe and Mulanje districts should wait a bit longer to have a tarmac road as there is no allocation for the road in the 2022/2023 national budget.

Farmers under Kambenje seed multiplication group have disclosed their plan to increase their beans and garlic hectares by 2023.

At least 8, 000 wall mounted electricity meters which government bought two years ago will be rendered useless if not put into use by November 24, 2023 as they will not be compatible to ESCOM’s split energy system or pole mounting metering system which the power utility body adopted two years ago.

The District Social Welfare Officer in Mulanje Martha Mkisi says the eleven-year-old girl whose father, Group Village Headman Makokola, married her off to a Mozambican has been withdrawn from the marriage.

Traditional Authority Njema of Mulanje has ordered his Group Village Head to pay a fine of two goats after he found him guilty of marrying off his eleven-year-old biological daughter to a Mozambican.

The Mulanje Electricity Generation Agency (MEGA) says it has a capacity of connecting three thousand houses to its electricity grid but due to inadequate finances to procure electricity meters, it has only connected 1, 600 houses.