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Concerned citizen offers monitoring mechanism on cases HRDC is aggressively whistleblowing

November 3, 2020

By Duncan Mlanjira Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has accepted an offer from concerned citizen, Paulaw Kitheka that he has a monitoring tool HRDC can use to keep track of all the fraud, theft and corruption cases it has been aggressively alerting the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to act on. It all started when Chandiwira Chisi posted on Face that he appreciates the way HRDC is maintaining its relevance through aggressive whistle blowing. “Perhaps, what remains is to put up…

Women in Media march against rape and defilement cases

November 3, 2020

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By Roselyn Phiri, MANA Association of Women in Media (AWOME) on Tuesday stormed the streets of Lilongwe and Blantyre with a petition to demand the government to act on the increase cases on rape and defilement cases in Malawi. The march in Lilongwe started from Kamuzu Central Hospital Roundabout via Parliament Building to Civic Offices where the petition was delivered while the Blantyre one started from Ginnery Corner to the Civic Offices at Chichiri. Among others, the women in…

Contractor complains of harassment by road users

November 3, 2020

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By George Mponda, MANA A contractor working on the Dedza-Kasumbu Road has lodged complaints of harassment of its workforce by road users, who refuse to use diversions that have been created. Addressing Dedza District Council Public Works Committee which toured the project, Sempha Investment Site Agent, Musatero Nkhonzi said some road users threaten their workers when they are told to use diversions. “Some members of our workforce have been threatened with weapons by some motorists,” Nkhonzi said. “They remove…

Chipiku Stores branch manager in police cooler for overpricing subsidized farm inputs

November 3, 2020

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By James Ngalande, MANA Mponela Police in Dowa District have arrested Chipiku Stores Branch Manager at Bowe Trading Centre for allegedly selling subsidised farm inputs under government’s Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) at inflated prices than the recommended ones. The suspect has been identified as Hanania Kaonga Nkhoma, aged 40 of Msampha Village in Traditional Authority Dzoole in the district. According to Mponela Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Kaitano Lubrino, Bowe Chipiku Stores Branch commenced the sale of subsidised farm…

RBM denies Mpatsa Holdings‘ shareholding acquisition in MyBucks Bank

November 3, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) is reported to have not approved Mpatsa Holdings intention to acquire 49% shareholding in MyBucks Banking Corporation on the grounds that Mpatsa only has fixed assets which may not be liquidated quickly should there be need in the near future to provide additional support to the bank. However, a statement from Mpatsa questions if this is a criteria for one to invest in a financial institution, saying it has never…

Justice Minister Mvalo attending review of Malawi’s human rights record to be examined by UN Universal Periodic Review

November 3, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Titus Mvalo is leading a Malawi delegation to observe the review of Malawi’s human rights record in Geneva to be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group on Tuesday, November 3. This will be the third reveries for Malawi — the first was in November 2010 and the other in May 2015. At a press briefing two weeks ago, Mvalo said Malawi has been…

MP Lipipa inspired: Set to join Mayor Ndipo in Yohane Banda Foundation’s Blantyre to Zomba fundraising Big Walk for welfare of street kids

November 2, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In a show of solidarity, Blantyre City South Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Noel Lipipa is set to join Blantyre City Mayor, Councillor Wild Ndipo in the noble cause that NGO Yohane Banda Foundation has organised — the Blantyre to Zomba Big Walk on November 7 to fundraise for the welfare of street kids. Lipipa says he felt it duty bound to join the Mayor and the other participants because, as MP for Blantyre City South…

Technology, social media impact has made conventional football reporting irrelevant—media consultant

November 2, 2020

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Football Journalists Association Media consultant, Hastings Ndebvu has said football journalists need to adapt to to digital changes of reporting the beautiful game in cognizance that the ever-growing changes in technology and the impact of social media has rendered irrelevant the conventional way of reporting. In his presentation as the main facilitator of a day-long workshop held at Red Zebra in Salima on Saturday organised by Football Journalists Association (FJA), Ndebvu said the industry is at a point where…

Ministry of Health loses important health management data collected since March

November 1, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira The Ministry of Health has lost important database that was collected since March this year after the server for the Health Management Information System (HMIS) crashed. A notice from Secretary of Health, Dr. Charles Mwansambo dated October 28, says the HMIS internet platform for the Ministry, which was operating on DHIS2 server, experienced “an incident” on October 2 and in the process of maintenance and restoration, it was discovered that the backup database was corrupted, resulting…