The Malawi Land Rover Defender club has mobilised over eleven vehicles to assist Cyclone Freddy relief items distribution exercise in Neno North Constituency hard to reach areas.

The Parent and Child Health Initiative through UNICEF has emphasized the need for the youths in the country to be ambassadors of change in areas of Child Marriages and Gender Based Violence.

Villagers around Ligowe ADMARC depot in Neno district have on Friday evening, confiscated 30 bags of maize suspected to have been bought dubiously at the depot by a Mwanza based vendor.

The Neno district council has started commenced Cyclone Freddy relief items distribution exercise with the help of Save the Children-Italy in partnership with Beyond our Hearts Foundation.

Neno District Hospital authorities say they have only 35kgs of chlorine and limited painkillers to last for two weeks amid the effects of Cyclone Freddy that has displaced 180 households in the district.

Neno District Relief and Rehabilitation officer Brighton Mphinga has disclosed that 137 households have been devastated by Cyclone Freddy in Neno district with one person missing.

A man identified as Leonard Likongwe who has been ill for some time has shot himself dead using a hunting rifle.

An angry mob has this morning vandalized Ligowe police unit in Neno when it was baying for the blood of two people suspected of having a hand in the death of a woman who died at Neno district hospital.

Neno District Disaster and Relief officer Brighton Mphinga has raised fears that houses in the area of Senior Chief Symon especially in Group Village Headman Mtengula and Matope may collapse due to the four day heavy downpour induced by Cyclone Freddy that has already killed over 90 people in the Southern part of the country.

Four youth clubs in Neno district on Monday planted various types of trees around the Neno Integrated Youth Development Centre as a way protecting the environment.