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  • Lilongwe City Roads to Have Dual Lanes.

    The traffic jam that has hit the Malawi’s capital city will soon be over as the Lilongwe city Assembly plans to upgrade all the roads to have dual lanes. The assembly’s Chief Executive Officer Mr. Kelvin M’mangisa has disclosed, saying discussions ...
  • Interface Absence Negatively Affecting Student-Politicians

    The quality of graduates being produced by the Political Science and Administration Studies Department at the Chancellor College is said to be negatively affected by poor interface between the students and players in the industry. ...
  • Parliament hikes MPs’ Daily Sitting Allowance to K20,000

    Daily sitting allowances for Malawi Members of Parliament have been increased to K20,000.00 from K15,000.00. Zodiak Online is reliably informed that the increase comes about after the legislatures expressed concern that the original perks did not reflect...
  • Dodging Impediments to Wrestle Maternal Mortality

    Nyuma Harawa, 35 swore that she would never go to a hospital again to deliver when she had her second pregnancy. In 1995 when she had visited Mzuzu Central Hospital while in labour, nurses insulted her for failing to deliver in time when she had entered ...
  • Call them Matofotofo

    Are you a fat woman? Then you qualify. There is a fat women contest to be held in Lilongwe on March 6 this year. Organisers of the contest, big mamas themselves, say the idea is that big is beautiful. Forget about those half dressed lean girls you see ...
  • Malawi Exporting Hybrid Tobacco Seeds

    Malawi is now exporting tobacco hybrid seeds to four African countries in a fresh effort to maximize production of quality tobacco in the SADC region, authorities said on Thursday. Director of Agricultural Research and Extension Trust – ARET – Dr. ...
  • Fishermen Catching Fish with Free Mosquito Nets

    Mosquito nets are reportedly selling like hot cakes in Thuchila and Likulezi in Mulanje district where villagers sell them to fishermen for catching fish in rivers there. Workers at Kabenje health centre said during a community based monitoring and eva...
  • Nsanje Police Net 14 ‘Sex Workers’

    Fourteen teenage girls have been arrested in Malawi’s southern most district of Nsanje on suspicion they were prostitutes. The girls were arrested in a sweeping exercise conducted in the district alongside social welfare office. ...
  • Cement Company Foots Training of 200 Local Bricklayers in Malawi

    The Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) says Malawi can not become a producing and exporting nation if her people remain ignorant in some basic vocational and entrepreneurial skills. ...
  • Canadian University Agency to Train Malawi Youth in Vocation Skills

    A Canadian international development agency, the World University Service of Canada- WUSC-plans to drill unemployed Malawian youths in various vocational skills as one way of empowering them to be independent and self-reliant. ...
  • Police Destroy over Forty Hectares of Indian Hemp

    Armed police in Malawi have destroyed over forty hectares of green Indian Hemp in obscured hemp fields some 170 kilometers north of the capital, Lilongwe. Heavily armed police in Malawi uprooted forty one hectares of Indian hemp in Kasungu district nor...
  • TNM Super League Hits Finale

    The sixty million kwacha top flight league reach its finale this Saturday with three games in the three cities of Mzuzu,Lilongwe and Blantyre with all the games having a bearing in the league standings with the Mzuzu game being the biggest of all. With...
  • Potable Water Woes Irk Environmentalists

    Health and Environmental officials in Malawi’s lower Shire district of Chikhwawa have warned that unless an urgent solution is placed to end access to potable water problem there, the district is likely to suffer a spate of extreme cases of waterborne d...
  • Education Body Wants Teachers’ Concentration on their Work

    Civil Society Coalition on Quality Basic Education (CSCQBE) in Malawi has condemned the involvement of school pupils and teachers in political affairs saying this is accelerating deterioration of education standards in the country. ...
  • Fruit in Malawi prisoner’s plate

    Among the numerous problem dogging operations of prison facilities in Malawi is the lack of capacity to provide prisoners with balanced diet such that at the moment, convicts come out of prison facilities with more dietary problems than before. ...
  • Trade Unions Feel Globalisation Sting

    Globalisation is said to be hurting workers more according to Malawi Congress of the Trade Union (MCTU) and Unite the Union, a UK based trade union. ...
  • UDF’s Mvula Case: Yet another adjournment

    A magistrate court in Blantyre on Tuesday adjourned the case in which United Democratic Front Director of Research, Mr. Humphrey’s Mvula is being accused of illegal possession of presidential election result sheet suspected to have been stolen or unlawf...
  • More women sleeping under impregnated mosquito nets

    Latest statistics from the Anglican Council of Malawi indicate that the number of pregnant women using treated mosquito nets has risen in the areas under its influence. From the original 21 percent in 2007, now 79 percent of expectant women use treated m...
  • Gender violence rampant in hospitality Industry

    The Centre for Alternatives for Victimized Women and Children has disclosed that cases of gender based violence at work places are rampant in the hospitality industry. CAVWOC Projects Officer Mr. Frank Kasonga says a recent research has shown that 70 per...
  • Cholera Claims 18 in Malawi

    The number of deaths due to Cholera in Malawi since the onset of the rainy season has now reached eighteen. The eighteenth death is that of a 12-year-old and also the first registered in the whole of the central region this season. Nkhotakota District...