Vanani Nyirenda
First Lady's Shaping Our Future Foundation has bailed out deaf learners in special needs institutions with transparent face shields and food stuffs to ease challenges the institutions are facing in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic.
A recent survey conducted by Mzimba District Education Network - MZIDEN with support from Civil Society Education Coalition - CISEC finds that Mzimba District is short of specialist teachers, a development they allege is hampering the education of learners with disabilities in the district.
Inkosi ya Makosi Mmbelwa IV of Mzimba has tipped implementers of the Spotlight Initiative - a project that aims at reducing gender-based violence against women and children - to include men in their interventions.
The Malawi Defense Force has expressed concern with rampant cutting down trees in Perekezi Forest Reserve saying this may lead to water problems in the future as the forest is a source of two major rivers in the district - Mzimba and South Rukuru rivers.
Three children from the same family have died after a heap of sand allegedly collapsed on them near Kaviyewo Primary School in the area of inkosi Mzukuzuku at a place where people mine sandy soils for construction purposes.
Vocal Democratic Progressive Party Regional Governor for the North Christopher Mzomera Ngwira was on October 16 slapped with a four-year jail term for abuse of office in the use of Local Development Fund LDF meant for construction of a teacher’s house at Lukwelukwe primary school when he was Member of Parliament for Mzimba Hora.
A Zodiak Broadcasting Station Journalist Aunyango Nkhoma has emerged second in the Stay at Home Media Recognition Awards for African Countries in the Radio Category.
A woman has died and 7 others have sustained various degrees of injuries after being attacked by a marauding hyena at Kamangadazi Makamo village in the area of Inkosi Mmbelwa in Mzimba district.
Heavy rains with strong winds have blown off roofs of Edingeni Community Day Secondary School structures and an unspecified number of houses around Edingeni in the area of Inkosi ya Makosi Mmbelwa in Mzimba district on Saturday evening destroying a lot of property in the process.
The Malaŵi Red Cross Society has pumped in 60 million kwacha towards the renovation of a treatment center for critically ill Covid-19 patients to the M'mbelwa District Council.