Category: National

* Government envisions to construct 250,000 houses through different stakeholders * To address issues of growing demand for housing due to the population growth and urbanisation * And to achieve MW2063 development vision of transforming the nation into an inclusively wealthy and self-reliant nation By Elia Chibwe, MANA Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has disclosed that they expect to build 25,000 to 50,000 houses through their partnership with Al-Bader International Development Company of Kuwait. At the signing ceremony of a…

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* We have finally harnessed newly-found opportunities meant to facilitate seamless trade routes to the coastline and ease the cost of imports * Fellow Malawians, when I promised to rehabilitate the country’s railway system, this is it! Maravi Express President Lazarus Chakwera emphasises that commissioning of the first cargo train into Malawi from the Port of Beira in Mozambique through Marka in Nsanje — after 41 years of the rail’s destruction due to lack of usage — “marks a…

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Caught and convicted, a vandalism case that took place in Chiradzulu * The 57-year-old village headman Assani, identified as Stand Ayami, is a well-known tinsmith * His body was found holding a hacksaw in his right hand, with a piece of ESCOM wire and fragments of the hacksaw scattered around him * His actions baffles the mind as he was supposed to be a custodian of the law and in the forefront of fighting the war against vandalism By…

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Inspection exercise of cement by Mangochi Police today * Customers advised to avoid purchasing from uncertified cement sellers and to be mindful of where they buy their materials * Suspects were unpacking bags of Njati Cement, mixing the cement with quarry dust, and then repackaging it in the same bags Maravi Express Police in Mangochi have appealed to cement traders and vendors to stop the malpractice of selling counterfeit cement, warning that it is illegal and the law will…

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