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Mpox Resurgence Strains Malawi’s Fragile Health System

June 3, 2025

Lilongwe faces rising infections amid dwindling donor support and low public awareness Malawi’s health authorities are grappling with a growing outbreak of Mpox after three more cases were confirmed in the capital, bringing the national total to 15 since the virus was first detected in April. According to the Public Health Institute of Malawi, the newly identified patients range in age from 17 to 41. Health officials are investigating how the infections were transmitted and are currently tracing contacts. The…

UK major media house The Telegraph lauds Samuel Valla Bhima — 1st Malawian to become Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

June 15, 2022

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| Health, International, News, Politics

The iconic Bhima who died on April 8, 2022 * He overcame racism to blaze a trail in maternal healthcare in Malawi and became sub-dean of King’s College Medical School * Bhima became a full Medical Officer in Zomba, the capital, in 1954 becoming the first black medical doctor in Nyasaland * When Kamuzu Banda’s autocratic style sparked a crisis, his key opponent, Henry Chipembere, went into hiding * Bhima drove alone to visit him and supply him with…

Root and Tubers Food Festival opens tomorrow

November 26, 2020

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| Agriculture, National, News

By Our Reporter An inaugural roots and tubers crops food and products festival opens tomorrow by the Ministry of Agriculture and local and international partners in Lilongwe to exhibit and disseminate the potential and advances of roots and tubers value chains in Malawi. Minister of Agriculture Lobin Clarke Lowe will inaugurate the day long Root and Tuber Crops (RTC) Products and Food Festival on Saturday, 28th November 2020 Lilongwe City Mall’s Game Stores Car Park platform “The goal is…

The Mt. Machemba expedition, Pt. – Dr. Ken Lipenga

November 20, 2020

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Once upon a time a man escaping civil war in Mozambique crossed into Malawi and found himself at Mahele Village at the western foot of Mt. Machemba, directly behind the mountain if you are at Migowi trading centre. It didn’t take long before people realized that the just arrived stranger was mentally unwell; but they still welcomed him in their midst, for he minded his own business and did no one no harm. But the man’s condition made it…

2 in court for alleged theft of booze to the tune of R6.8m

November 3, 2020

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By News24 Two men appeared in the Jeppe Magistrate’s Court on Monday and Tuesday for allegedly stealing alcohol worth R6.8 million. Jabulane Mlilo from Zimbabwe and Jonathan Nkhoma who is Malawian were flagged on Saturday by members of the Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit, along with City Deep Border Policing members. Officials stopped their two delivery trucks that were carrying “exclusive” alcohol, said Hawks spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu. “A document verification revealed that the documents were fraudulent and altered….

Balaka utilizing only 15% of irrigatable land for winter cropping

October 4, 2020

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By Trouble Ziba, MANA Out of 6,000 hectares irrigatable land that is available in Balaka District, farmers only utilize about 900 hectares, owing to inadequate financial and material resources involved in irrigation farming. This is a setback to efforts by government and other players in the agriculture sector that have been advocating for farmers countrywide to engage in irrigation farming due to the country’s unreliability of rainfall as experienced in recent years. Balaka District’s Chief Agriculture, Environment and Natural…

Hiannick Kamba’s alive!

May 6, 2020

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by Chris Bengel CBS Sports A former prominent soccer player has reappeared four years after being pronounced dead in a car accident, a report said. Hiannick Kamba’s former wife is being accused of fraud after she allegedly forged documents and collected a six-figure life insurance payment following the soccer player’s phony passing, German prosecutor Anette Milk told the Bild, a German tabloid. The former defender for the highly acclaimed Schalke 04 in the German Bundesliga was said to have been killed…

President Mutharika says DPP not appealling to stop re-run

February 5, 2020

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President Professor Peter Arthur Peter Mutharika says the Democratic Progressive Party is not appealing against the judgement delivered by the High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court that nullified the disputed May 21 presidential elections but it is doing so to correct the fundamental errors in the judgement to protect the country’s laws, principles of justice and democracy. The President said this on Wednesday night in a national address he made on MBC TV, saying the DPP is ready…

Government preaches peace and unity in Karonga

January 27, 2020

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By Andrew Mkonda Karonga, January 27, Mana: Government has expressed concern over the behaviour of some people in the country who take laws in their hands, saying the tendency is counterproductive to the country’s development. Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, made the remarks on Saturday in Karonga after meeting the business community and other stakeholders in the district. Kaunda’s remarks come barely few days after some angry pupils and teachers torched the district commissioner’s…

Two Nigerians netted over drugs

January 27, 2020

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By Ireen Kayira Lilongwe, January 27, Mana: Lingadzi Police Station is keeping in custody two Nigerian Nationals for allegedly possessing dangerous drugs suspected to be cocaine. According to Lingadzi Police Public Relations Officer, Salome Zgambo, the suspects are Ajagu Jude Okwuchuku, aged 40 and Ekoh Chinomso Charles, aged 31. Zgambo said they were arrested on Friday in Area 49 Gulliver where they were staying illegally. “Police got information from well wishers that the suspects were selling illicit drugs. After…