Officials from the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) have blocked the use of K17 billion by councils and clusters. A memo seen by Nyasa Tines directs all councils and clusters to stop spending and transfer back all the remaining amount in the K17.280 billion funding that was released to the clusters. A communication from […]
Speaker of parliament Catherane Gotani Hara has tested positive for Covid-19. Leader of the House in Parliament, Richard Chimwendo Banda, has confirmed Gotani Hara is self isolating after she tested positive for Covid-19. Chimwendo-Banda said in an interview that Hara went for a test after two members of her household tested positive. However, he said […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander General Vincent Nundwe has dismissed allegations that he has been interdicted over allegations of abuse of Covid-19 funds, saying he does not head any cluster and that MDF has not misappropriated any funds. In his address on February 14 2021, Chakwera directed that all cluster heads be suspended for failing to […]
Resilient policies and strategies are crucial for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to enable them jump start the economy after the devastation caused by Covif-19, Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima said on Tuesday. Chilima was speaking when he participated in a session on rethinking structural transformation in African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the era of […]
World Vision Malawi has urged the government and other stakeholders to engage faith leaders in disseminating information about Covid-19 vaccine if the initiative is to become a success. In a statement signed by the organisation’s Officer-In-Charge, Catherine Omenda, said this has been proven by research the organization has carried out in six countries across six […]
The Thomson and Barbra Mpinganjira Foundation has kicked off its charitable works with a donation of K20 million worth of personal protective equipment (PPEs) items for Covid-19 fight to the Ministry of Health. The foundation which was founded last year by business mogul Thomson Mpinganjira in memory of his late wife Barbra donated the items […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (South) Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, has said the second wave of the deadly Covid-19 has claimed lives of very hard-working DPP officials and members and other Malawians across the country in the past few weeks and that Malawians should stay vigilant against further spread […]
Officials from presidential taskforce on covid-19 say children with respiratory problems should not mask up as this could worsen their condition. Co-Chairperson of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid 19 Khumbize Chiponda says in a statement parents should take caution when putting masks on children between six and 11. The advice comes as schools reopen today […]
NICO Group has responded to the appeal that President Lazarus Chakwera made to all stakeholders, both local and foreign in the fight against the nasty second wave of COVID-19 pandemic by donating K100 million towards the cause. Soon after the country was hit with the from January 1 that claimed lives of many people that […]
Primary school teachers in the country have maintained their demand for Covid-19 risk allowance and have since downed their tools until government addresses their concerns. Government reopened schools on Monday after a five-week suspension due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, but learners who reported for school were told to go back to their respective […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines for frontline health workers has delayed for seven days but said the country was on course for roll out of the vaccination process in March with delivery of 1.5 million doses expected this month end. Chakwera said when he delivered the seventh National Address on […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said his order for the interdiction of some controlling officers, over accountability of K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds has been effected according to the law pending investigations. Delivering his seventh televised National Address on the War on Covid-19 from Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Sunday, the President said the forensic audit will […]
The Minister of Civic Education and National Unity, Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo on Friday engaged the leadership of the Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM), Qadria Muslim Assocation of Malawi (QMAM) and the Blantyre Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in a discussion on how best the faith leaders can complement government efforts in […]
Media fraternity in the country is mourning the death of veteran journalist Cheu Mita who died on Saturday in Accra, Ghana where she was airlifted from Nigeria after suffering from Covid-19. Family members say program for her funeral will be announced later. Until her death, Mita was working for World Food Program in Nigeria, a […]
Rights activists have given Leader of Opposition in parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa seven days to pay back K3.6 million he pocketed as sitting allowance in presidential taskforce on Covid-19. The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says the money pocketed by Nankhumwa could have gone a long way in saving the lives of many Covid 19 patients. […]
Small scale traders in Lilongwe have asked the government to ease the tough covid-19 preventive measures now that the infection rate is at around 15 per cent down from 30 per cent when the measures were put. Some of the business owners said due to the restrictions, most of their businesses are failing to stay […]
There was commotion in Lilongwe this morning as police abruptly appeared at a meeting teachers were having at community centre ground to prepare for protests. The law enforcers dispersed the teachers. Police said that the teachers did not seek permission to hold demonstrations. The teachers are demanding government to give them a Covid-19 risk allowance. […]
Global health regulators, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has made an emphatic assurance that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine that Malawi has chosen is very safe for use. Speaking in Lilongwe during the Covid-19 update briefing, WHO country representative, Nonhlanhla Rosemary Dlamini, said Malawi should not be worried with the study that was done in South […]