Government says it has just remained with compensation payments to roll out the $154 million Mozambique-Malawi Regional Interconnector Project soon, which is expected to help the country be purchasing 110 megawatts.

High Court judge Jack N'riva has dismissed with cost the application by the Thyolo District Council to pay Thyolo Active Youth Organisation (TAYO) K32 million compensation in instalments after it demolished its offices to construct a new stadium.

The National Construction Industry Council (NCIC) says it has managed to stop construction of seven public and commercial projects which were using the banned fire cured bricks from January this year.

Delays in discharging cases in courts is said to be affecting justice delivery and operations for the Legal Aid Bureau to the citizenry.

Thyolo district has been added to the list of the cholera-affected districts after recording the first five cases and one death.

Presidential Advisor on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood Dorothy Ngoma has commended health authorities in Thyolo for pushing down the maternal mortality rate currently at 45 percent, way below the national target of 50 percent.

The graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) had on the morning of Tuesday arrested former Thyolo District Commissioner Justin Kathumba on alleged corruption charges.

Police in Thyolo have arrested a 26-year-old Ndirande resident, Mayeso Mission, on suspicion that he has been vandalising transformers for the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) in the district.

The acting paramount chief Kaduya of Phalombe and Senior chief Lukwa of Kasungu have supported some chiefs who are calling the government to revise upwards the chiefs’ minimum monthly honoraria of K5, 000 and also change the mode of disbursing the honoraria to mobile money payments.

There is hope for this year's 94, 000 projected Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) households in Thyolo as authorities are reporting that they have now registered 100 percent of the beneficiaries.