The Ministry of Finance has clarified that workers will have to wait a little longer before the K100,000 tax-free band is effected as the government is waiting for parliament to approve the change.

Legal and governance expert Justin Dzonzi says President Lazarus Chakwera’s commitment to reduce presidential powers is long overdue and prays responsible state agencies will facilitate this process with speed.

The newly-elected president of the Republic of Malawi, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, has been sworn in at a colourful ceremony held at BICC in Lilongwe this morning.

Yesterday Former President Peter Mutharika made his first public appearance since the Tuesday poll.

The Malawi Electoral Commission-MEC has announced Dr Lazarous Chakwera official winner of the Tuesday Presidential Poll.

The 2020/2021 National Budget has been pegged at 2.2 trillion Kwacha with the Ministry of Education getting the biggest allocation.

The Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson, Kezzie Msukwa, says parliament is going ask the Malawi Electoral Commission-MEC to gazette 23rd June, 2020 as the date the country is going to hold the fresh presidential election.

President Peter Mutharika has called on the international community to support member states to support the Least Developed Counties,of which he is Chairperson, with about 5.2 billion US dollars to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Maula Prison in Lilongwe has released 581 inmates in a European Union-funded Chilungamo Project, aimed at decongesting the Prison amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The country's mobile money operators TNM and Airtel Malawi have announced that they are removing user fees and charges on personal transfers on the same network for a period of three months in the wake of Covid-19.