A cyclone Sedza is expected to bring more widespread flood to Malawi which has been hit by floods killing over 200 people and left an estimated 100 000 people homeless in the southern African country. The Met Office has issued warnings of continued rainfalls. The country is threatened with the cyclone Sedza which will batter […]
Former Miss Malawi UK Alexina Phiri is organising an event to help raise money for the thousands of Malawi whose lives have been devastated following the deadly floods. Alexina told Nyasa Times that she has organised a fundraising walking event on January 24, 2015 at 3pm at Victoria Park in Leicester, UK. “Everyone must wear […]
Malawians living in diaspora and friends of Malawi have been asked to make donations which will go directly to helping the people heavily hit by floods due to incessant rains which has killed many people and left thousands homeless. One of Malawian bloggers Athena Tales has made the appeal through a web link http://www.gofundme.com/malawimatters she […]
Scores of Malawians based in South Africa and other nationalities turned up at the Malawi Consulate on Saturday the 17 January 2015 for an urgent meeting in response to calls by the Malawi government for support towards the flood victims. The grouping was meeting to map up a way forward as to how the community […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday visited over 200 flood victims in Chilobwe Township and donated 30 50kg bags of maize to them as they cope up with various challenges resulting from the devastating floods that hit the area on Tuesday. Heavy rains caused havoc across the country, and besides killing at […]
The Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) has urged stakeholders in the agriculture sector to plan ahead for the short to medium term measures that could help avert hunger in the flood plagued areas as people lost the means to produce. CISANET National Director Tamani Nkhono-Mvula in a statement released Friday said the floods also took […]
“It is good , it is good, it is bad, it is bad” -Saulos Klaus Chilima If you make a not-so-clever move once, it is an honest mistake; if you make it twice, it becomes poor judgment; but if you make it three times it manifests itself into a dangerous habit. In fact too dangerous […]
President Peter Mutharika on Friday visited areas hit by floods and cheered victims of the disaster in Mangochi and Balaka districts. Earlier this week, the Head of State declared a third of the country to be a disaster zone and appealed for help. Mutharika has called the floods a “national tragedy that urgently needs both […]
Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa Dioeces of the influential Roman Catholic Church has appealed for global prayer and material support for the flood victims in his country where at least 176 have been killed with many more missing and 200,000 homeless. The floods, which have wreaked havoc on half the the country’s 28 districts, have […]
Petroleum Importers Limited responded to the call by the President Peter Mutharika in donating some materials which will assist people suffering due floods in various parts of the country by donating a sum of K10, 000,000 which will be used to purchase items that are great need by World Vision Malawi who are already on […]
Malawi vice president Saulos Chilima says the death toll from floods triples to 176 and at least 200,000 displaced. Chilima told a news conference in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre that dozens of people are still missing, with at least 153 unaccounted for in the worst affected southern parts of the country. He said a joint […]
After five days of prolonged rains that caused havoc in most parts f southern Malawi the officials at the Department of the Meteorological Services and Climate Change says more rains will be now be shifting to northern and central areas. In its weather forecast report released on Friday the Met department says the country should expect locally […]
Malawi Vice President on Friday launched World Vision Malawi food distribution programme to reach out to thousands of displaced people in the lower shire. The food distribution exercise is part of the response to the recent flood crisis that forced President Arthur Peter Mutharika to declare state of national disaster. Close to 200, 000 people in 15 […]
Panic engulfed Malawians Thursday night after rumours went rife on social media warning people that a certain radio station has announced that there will be an earthquake around 10 pm and that people should vacate their houses. In southern Malawi people spent two hours outside their houses waiting for the impending doom. Those who were not in the know […]
As rains continue to cause havoc in the country, Police at Ulongwe in Balaka district have recovered two dead bodies which were found floating in the river Mkasi in the district. Balaka police spokesperson Sub Inspector Joseph Sauka says the incident happened Thursday afternoon when a group of people went searching for a 50 year old man […]
Malawi President, Peter Mutharika, will Friday January 16 visit areas hit by the recent heavy flooding and people affected by the disaster in the southern region. State House press officer Chikondi Juma says the President will among other areas visit the people at Mpondasi in Mangochi district and Ulongwe in Balaka South. At least 48 people have […]
Malawi government has deployed military helicopters and boats to rescue flood victims but despite high waters in the lower shire district of Nsanje and Chikwawa, people refused to board the rescued choppers, arguing they could not leave their “own land.” At least 48 people have been killed and around 23,000 forced from their homes by […]
Severe floods in Malawi are raising fears of a large-scale cholera outbreak, a health official said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a disaster that has killed at least 48 people and made 70 000 homeless over the past few days. The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services has forecast further heavy rain […]