Tag archives: Chikwawa

Private citizens response to continue as health arm of Nsanje and Chikwawa forum: Handover oxygen cyclinders and regulators

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Chikwawa COVID-19 private citizens response pledges to continue as health arm of Nsanje and Chikwawa Social Economic Development Forum life after Covid-19 pandemic. This was pledged after the committee presented oxygen cyclinders, oxygen regulators and oxygen itself to Chikwawa District Hospital on Saturday worth K2.6 million in response to President Lazarus Chakwera’s appeal to all […]

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Chikwawa residents march against poor road network

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Some concerned community members in Chikwawa district marched to the district council offices to deliver a petition on a number of shortfalls in the district, one of them being poor road network. The organizers of the demonstrations calling themselves ‘Citizens from Chikwawa’ delivered the petition to the council’s Chief Administrative Officer, Leonard Mchombo who received it […]

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Mtendere Youth Club donate PPE to Chikwawa communities

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Mtendere Youth Club in Chikwawa has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to vulnerable community members in the district to support fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The items included soap and face masks for orphans, the aged and persons with disabilities. Speaking on Saturday after the handover, the club’s chairperson Gift Lamba said they donated the items […]

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Chikwawa District Council shut down amid Covid-19 scare

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Chikwawa District Council is closing from this Friday to disinfect its offices amid coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In a letter dated July 23 2020, signed by district commissioner Ali Phiri, the council says it has temporarily shut down its offices to disinfect them. Reads the letter in part: Please be informed that Chikwawa District Council shall […]

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Coalition trains mother groups on girls access to sexual and reproductive health

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Coalition of Women Living with HIV and Aids has trained mother groups from Ngabu and Lundu in Chikwawa on how to enhance the uptake of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services among girls. Speaking at the end of the training on Saturday, the organisation’s Get Up, Speak Out Project officer Sekani Tchuwa said they engaged […]

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Man arrested over toddler’s murder

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi  Police in Chikwawa are keeping in custody a 20-year-old man for allegedly murdering a three weeks old baby, following a family misunderstanding which turned physical. The incident, according to Chikwawa Police Station, Deputy Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Dickson Matemba, occurred on Friday around 23:00 hours when  Stephano Nembo  picked a quarrel with his wife which […]

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Mozambicans overwhelm Chikwawa hospital: Use uncharted routes to enter Malawi

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Health workers at Ngabu Rural Hospital in Chikwawa say the health facility is overwhelmed with Mozambicans who seek medical attention and have since asked the government for protective gear against coronavirus. An official Griffin Banda says the hospital gets 1,200 patients from Mozambique every month which threatens lives of health workers as well as other […]

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Parents withdraw their minors from school in Chikwawa over long distance

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Parents in Mwalijah village, Group village headman Njeledza, Traditional Authority Kasisi in Chikwawadistrict have expressed their worry on the increase of number of school drop out in due to long distance of walking to primary school. The concern has come after the March 2019 floods that affected their village and forced them to relocate to […]

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Rains cut off East bank road: Chikwawa secondary school closed after damage

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Heavy rains have cut off the busy East bank road which passes through agricultural production areas of Mkhathe, Livunzu and Fatima. One of the ward councilors in the area Alex Mulonya said the area is now an island and asked the government to swiftly rehabilitate the road. The heavy rains which were accompanied by heavy […]

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Good Jando! Communities hail new initiation ceremonies promoting education and good behaviour

By Nyasa Times Reporter

People from Mbenderana Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Kasisi in Chikwawa District have hailed male initiation camps (jando) which agenda aim at promoting education and good behaviour among initiates. According to random interviews , male initiation ceremonies in the district are now meant to build good behaviour. In an interview, senior group village head (GVH) […]

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Chikwawa District Council  chairperson for improved infrastructure

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Newly elected Chairperson for Chikwawa District Council has promised more infrastructure development under his reign. Councilor Clement Kamoto of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who was elected Chikwawa District Council Chairperson on Saturday defeating two others with eight votes bemoaned poor infrastructures that have rocked the district council. The Ndalanda Ward Councilor under Chikwawa North […]

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Subjects want Chikwawa’s Chief Ngabu removed: Hold peaceful march to petition DC

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Some subjects of Senior Chief Ngabu in Chikwawa district Monday marched to present their petition to the District Commissioner (DC) office over what they described as poor and corrupt leadership which has marred Ngabu Chieftaincy. The communities carried with them banners which accused Senior Chief Ngabu as being too corrupt who is grabbing peoples land […]

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Police arrest 5 for alleged gang rape on 14-year-old girl: 6 others at large

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi Police in Chikwawa have arrested five suspects for allegedly gang raping a 14-year-old girl in Senior Chief Makhuwira’s are in the district. Chikwawa police station spokesman Foster Benjamin said in an interview that the suspects are Smart Lapken, Fanuel Makwayo, and Kingsley George, all aged 21, Alfred Njobvu, 18, and a 17-year-old boy. The […]

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