Fainesi Maida (not real name) of Bereu Village in Traditional Authority (TA) Maseya’s area in Chikhwawa District never saw two of her three babies grow through to 11 months. She lost both to malaria; the first at six and the other at 10. Maida has since then been a desperate regular client of Bereu Health Centre with her third who is now seven months old. “I can dare you, no one knows the pain and emptiness of losing a…
Five first year Polytechnic Engineering students have been selected to participate at the First Global Robotics Olympics competition from 24th to 27th October 2019, in Dubai. The students are; Nyasha Mpinda, Victor Njimapemba, Loreen Chiwaya, Sally Mwai Changaya and Patience Muhaliya. According to the team leader and mentor, lecturer in the Electronics and Computer engineering department Stanley Mbewe, this is an annual event where by engineering students from all over the world come together to compete on how they can…
Governance Gender Justice and Development Center (GGJDC), one of the organizations that promote gender issues in the country has urged women who failed in the May 21 tripartite elections not to relent but contest in 2024 elections. This was revealed during the meeting organized by GGJDC at Sanguya Lodge for Women Councilors in Lilongwe on Tuesday. GGJDC Programmes Officer, Grace Makuti said the event was organized to meet all women councilors who failed during the elections to discuss factors…
Minister of Housing and Urban Development Symon Vuwa Kaunda Monday bemoaned that he lost precious time defending his 21 May, 2019 parliamentary election victory which Peoples Party’s (PP) candidate Ralph Mhone contested in court. Kaunda said since Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) declared him winner for Nkhata Bay Central Constituency, he has spent almost four months in and out of the Mzuzu High Court defending his seat from his challenger. Speaking after High Court Judge Thomson Ligowe sustained him as…