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Coronavirus alert: Ministry of Transport suspends all cross-border passenger travel

March 29, 2020

By Duncan Mlanjira Among several precautionary measures against the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), Ministry of Transport & Public Works has suspended all cross-border passenger travel is effective April 1st, 2020 A statement from Minister Ralph Jooma, says this is in line with the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by World Health Organization (WHO), and in line with the declaration of a National State of Disaster by President, Prof Peter Mutharika. All international flights are suspended…

Blantyre DHO appeals for beds for quarantine facility

March 29, 2020

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By Loness Gwazanga, MANA Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) is appealing to partners to assist the office with beds to be used at the quarantine facility at Kameza. Blantyre District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr. Miriam Jere revealed on Friday during a stakeholders’ meeting which attracted a cross section of health partners that the facility only has 10 beds. “In the event that there are a number of COVID-19 confirmed cases, we will have a big problem to accommodate them,”…

Muslim Youth United supports Queens’ neurosurgical and orthopaedic Ward’s with health products in fight against Coronavirus

March 29, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Muslim Youth United (MYU), who adopted and takes care of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Queens) neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards of the Pediatric section, has donated health products for better care of the patients against Coronavirus (COVID-19). The donated items include 1,000 face masks, 50 washing stations, liquid dispensers and disinfectant fluids. Muslim Youth United is supporting Pediatric section under the WE CARE program, in which they are expected to be supplying the neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards’…

CODESRIA community deeply mourns Malawian economist late Thandika Mkandawire

March 28, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Council for the Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA) has described Malawian economist, late Thandika Mkandawire a brilliant economist and prodigious scholar whose works on African political economy challenged dominant ways of seeing the African continent on a wide range of issues. Late Thandika, who died on Friday, March 27 in Stockholm, Sweden aged 79, was former chairman of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics and was…

Malawi women’s national football team drop four steps on FIFA rankings

March 28, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Ranked at 145 in the world and 24 in Africa, Malawi women’s national football team have dropped four steps on FIFA rankings for the month of March. In Africa, Nigeria are first and 38th in the world followed by Cameroon on second place; South Africa (third); Ghana (5th); Côte d’Ivoire (6th); Equatorial Guinea (7th); Tunisia (8th); Morocco (8th); Mali (9th) and Algeria (10th). The USA at the top of the women’s game at world stage, followed by…

Ras Chikomeni, two others collect presidential nomination papers from MEC

March 27, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Ras Chikomeni Chirwa, who was barred from contesting for the May 21, 2019 tripartite elections because he failed to meet several of the conditions need, is one of the three presidential candidates who collected their nominations papers from Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the fresh presidential elections scheduled for July 2. Once again, Ras Chikomeni is intending to run as an independent as well as Smart Swira while the third one is from New…

World Vision Malawi donates Coronavirus supplies to Ministry of Health

March 27, 2020

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By Tione Andsen, MANA World Vision Malawi on Thursday donated medical supplies and equipment worth K80 million to Ministry of Health in a drive to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The donated items included 50,000 gloves, 3,000 face masks, 1,000 gowns, 12 tonnes of powdered soap, 90×20 kgs of chlorine, 8 tonnes of assorted bar soap and 100 buckets of water. Presenting the items in Lilongwe, Programmes Manager, Charles Chimombo said the donation would…

Speaker of Parliament reports to Constitutional Court on Mutharika’s refusal to approve electoral law amendments

March 27, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira Speaker of Parliament, Catherine Gotani Hara has responded to the request from the Constitutional Court to report on President Peter Mutharika’s refusal to approve the electoral law amendments which the august House passed in February. The Parliamentary Appointment Committee was also mandated to investigate on the capacity and competence of Malawi Electoral Commissioners and it recommended that they be removed in order not to conduct the fresh elections, but Mutharika also refused to approve the…

FAM president Nyamilandu fulfills ‘Raise The Bar’ manifesto

March 27, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In his re-election campaign manifesto for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidency, dubbed ‘Raising the Bar’, Walter Nyamilandu pledged to fulfill 15 key strategic promises and as soon as he was elected December 14, 2019, he went down to business. Within three months Nyamilandu has managed to roll out a number of programmes he promised that included sponsoring Districts Football Leagues, which has been unveiled on Thursday at the Mpira Village on an investment…

National Muslim Prison Board donates sanitary products to prisons nationwide

March 27, 2020

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By Duncan Mlanjira In response to calls for all stakeholders to assist in precautionary measures against the spread of Coronavirus, Malawi’s National Muslim Prison Board has donated sanitary products to all prisons nationwide, including regional management offices as well as the Head Office in Zomba. The nationwide ‘Protect Through Sanition Project’ initiative towards mitigating the impact of the dreaded COVID-19 virus, will at the end of the day have distributed 110 washing stations which include a 30lt bucket with…