The Norwegian Church Aid and DanChurchAid (NCA/DCA) Malawi joint programme on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, announced K100 million worth of support to go towards the cholera response in Malawi.

When Malawi women's footballer Tabitha Chawinga started playing as a striker for Italian Serie A Club Inter Milan, the odds were stacked against her.

Presidential Taskforce on Cholera and Covid-19 says World Health Organization (WHO) is yet to respond to a government request for at least seven million more doses of oral cholera vaccines.

Taskforce co-chairperson, Dr. Wilfred Chalamira Nkhoma, told Zodiak yesterday that at the moment, about 33 countries are experiencing cholera outbreaks hence expected to share about 38 million doses projected to be produced this year.

Malawi run out of Cholera vaccine last month.

The Malawi Electoral Commission says it targets having at least 75 percent of 10 million voters which the National Statistical Office estimates would be eligible to vote in 2025 general elections.

Ward Councillors in Chitipa yesterday refused to approve the district's 2023/2024 budget on grounds that the Council Secretariat failed to provide them with the budget documents in good time for scrutiny.

In its bid to support Malawi’s public financial management reforms, the German government has handed over and installed 3 Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) training laboratories in the Accountant General’s Department.

Malawi is one of the developing countries trying to tap into the benefits of the digital world. Despite its limited resources, the country is reaping the benefits of modern Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in different sectors, including but not limited to health, education, finance and agriculture, though with glitches.

Agriculture is the mainstay of the country’s economy, and such players in the sector are trying to take advantage of different ICT tools to improve farming, which makes up for the ways of earning a living for almost 80% of the 18 million-plus population.

In their analysis, Aness Mwale and George Kalungwe discuss the potential that the use of ICT tools has in boosting farming in the country, especially in information dissemination considering that the country has a gap of nearly 1000 agricultural advisory staff on the required 3 million.

With the world and music industry still engulfed with the grief of the tragic and untimely passing of Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, the Forbes family has acknowledged the outpouring of support and love from South Africa and beyond.

The Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) says it has started transporting maize from grain reserves to its depots across the country.