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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

School of witches exposed in Malawi

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1000 children in the central Malawi district of Salima, graduate into witchcraft yearly, research shows. The African Network for the Protect...

Malawians root for death penalty

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Majority of Malawians preferred the death penalty to any other form of punishment, according to a recent public study. The report said the r...

Only 32 Second World War soldiers remain

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Malawi is remaining with only 32 retired soldiers who fought with guns and courage during the Second World War, out of the 300, 000 Malawian...

Lack of resources leaves 12, 000 blind

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Malawi is facing a race against time to cure 12, 000 patients made blind from preventable illnesses. Ministry of Health officials acknowled...

Fistula leaves women discriminated

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Women gather at Zomba Central Hospital in Southern Malawi in hundreds. It is not a social gathering, though one condition renders them peers...

Concerns raised over free press in Malawi

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Samuel Okocha, AfricaNews reporter in Lagos, Nigeria A freelance journalist has described the recent accreditation of journalists operating...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Flash back: Cotton farming receives boost

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BY RICHARD CHIROMBO Cotton farmers in Malawi are waiting for the commencement of production by a Chinese company to earn more on their comm...

Malawi tired of disjointed monitoring mechanisms

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Malawi is taking steps aimed at harmonizing monitoring systems in the areas of agriculture and food security, nutrition, and natural resourc...

Lack of standards threatens infrastructure dev.

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Malawi is yet to develop national standards on buildings and related infrastructure, a development the Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) clai...

Child traficking cases on the increase

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Child trafficking is one of the biggest challenges facing Malawi's efforts to promote the rights of the child. The country was suffering...

Malawians now eating more

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The Malawian of 2004 used to take in 1.6 kilorites per day and felt food secure, but now that figure has almost doubled to 2.2 kilorites, an...

Malawi: Poor designs cause market fires

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Poor designs in the various markets in Malawi have been blamed for the recent spate of market fires, the Malawi Union for the Informal Secto...

Therapist drought hits Malawi

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Malawi only has 30 therapists out of an estimated population of 13 million, a development the Physiotherapy Association of Malawi said has i...

Malawi: Subsidy cripples electricity company

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Malawi's sole electricity supplier ESCOM , is still making losses in customers connection costs, contrary to public outcries that the re...

Malawi's population explodes

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Malawi's population growth is said to be the highest in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The country's popu...

Malawi: Road accidents on the increase

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Malawi has registered an increase in the number of road accidents, registering 2, 358 road crashes from January to June 2008 against 1, 535 ...

Malawi incorporates prayer in AIDS treatment

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Faced with reluctant religious leaders, who refuse to burge and accept that prayers never cure one from an HIV infection, and highly-religio...

Sikale kwambiri: Malawian women go into ICT

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Malawi is experiencing an unprecedented participation of women in the, hither to, considered male-domain fields of Information, Communicatio...

Why MTL Wanderers will not win the TNM Super League, trophies: Wanderers' juju-man prophecies bad times

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A man claiming to be former MTL Wanderers’ juju-man, Alfred Mapira, has predicted doom for the team, saying unless they give him K10, 000 th...

Democracy in the valley (Chikhwawa)

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This Sunday, May 17, 2009, a group of people gathered at Goma Primary School in Chikhwawa. The bicycle parade to Mgabu Trading Centre, as o...