A 92-year-old retired pastor, Milton Sosola has encouraged pensioneires in the country to venture into modern farming as a way of getting extra money apart from their pension benefits.

Police at Zalewa roadblock in Neno have intercepted a truck loaded with forest products (charcoal) without permit.

Health authorities in Neno district say they have contained the cholera outbreak at Chiwale Secondary School which reported eleven active cases of the disease last week.

Beyond Our Hearts Foundation Malawi with funding from Malawi Diaspora Network - USA has on Friday distributed items to Cyclone Freddy survivors in eight villages around Neno district.

Social Cash Transfer and Lean Season beneficiaries in Neno district have been urged to use the money received for economic growth, saying the initiative is not for eternity.

The Malawi Red Cross Society president Innocent Majiya has today, Monday, paid a courtesy call to the office of the Neno District Commissioner for the first time since Cyclone Freddy struck.

The Neno District Council on Friday reignited the fire of the Presidential Clean-Up Exercise where it cleaned the Neno main Boma market which has been untidy for long.

At an Interface between the Neno Children's Parliamentarians and Neno District Council duty bearers, the young parliamentarians have expressed gratitude to the council on positive strides made so far in answering their resolutions.

Neno District Commissioner Hudson Kuphanga has said youth empowerment is vital if the country is to develop the Malawi 2063 Agenda.