President Peter Mutharika has warned of tough action against those who will be found involved in stealing relief items meant for disaster victims. The President sounded the warning on Monday when he visited flood victims currently staying at Chikuse Camp around Nchalo in Chikwawa District. Mutharika said he was aware that some ill-minded people were […]
FDH Bank has donated K13 million towards flood relief after 56 died and thousands of people were displaced due to flash floods especially in the southern part of the country last week. Head of Human resources at FDH Bank, Crispin Chikwama said after donating the cheque and some items in Blantyre Monday that the bank […]
Over 2000 people affected by floods in Nsanje district had on Sunday, March 17, 2019 managed to smile again after president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Lazarus Chakwera paid them a visit and on behalf of the party donated tonnes of relief food following deadly floods. Severe flooding in the recent days has affected nearly […]
Shadow MP for Thyolo Central Constituency Ben Phiri on Saturday donated various relief items worth over K7 million to people affected by recent floods in the constituency. Of recent Malawi was hit by heavy rains and floods that led to 56 deaths, 577 injuries while three people are still missing. A total of 184,589 […]
President Peter Mutharika has reaffirmed government’s commitment to ensuring that all people displaced by devastating rains return to their normal life and continue with their routine activities for their livelihood improvement. Mutharika was speaking on Saturday at Mileme Primary School evacuation camp in the area of Traditional Authority Jenala in Phalombe when he visited and […]
Construction firm SAWA Group on Friday donated flour and blankets to some of the 20 000 households that were displaced and robbed of their property by floods that hit Phalombe District last week. SAWA Group is a construction and engineering firm involved in supply of steel tanks, solar irrigation systems and borehole sinking among other […]
Malawi’s integrated mobile network and ICT services provider TNM Plc, has announced the donation of K8.7 million relief items to Malawi Red Cross Society to assist with relief efforts for victims of floods that hit the country. Speaking during the handover ceremony TNM’s Head of Marketing, Sobhuza Ngwenya said the donation underscores TNM’s commitment to […]
Following the heavy rains and floods that have left many people destitute in some parts of the country, leading mobile company, Airtel Malawi has made a donation of K20 million to the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA) which is currently on the ground helping the affected people. Among others the affected Districts include Nsanje,Chikwawa, […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the the Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata) Subsidy Programme (DAHSP) will consider every household affected by the recent disaster in the affected 10 districts. Mutharika said this Thursday at Namatamba Primary School in Traditional Authority Mwambo in Zomba district where he cheered and interacted with victims of persistent […]
Chiradzulu District was not spared from the incessant heavy rains that hit southern Malawi last week and members of a charity Trust Fund from Chiradzulu West mobilized themselves to assist over a hundred households with relief items on Wednesday. The groupings treasurer Evelyn Mwapasa said initially the Trust Fund caters for paying school fees to […]
Children’s charity, World Vision Malawi became the first organization to render a helping hand to people of Neno when it distributed food and non-food items to 2 650 people affected by flooding in Matope community. Each benefiting household went away with 10 kilograms of maize flour, 10 packets of soya pieces, a plastic bucket and […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential running mate in the 21 May 2019 watershed election, Sidik Mia —renowned for his charity work – has now gone flat out to help people who have been adversely affected by floods in Shire Valley. “The floods this year caught us (Malawi) off-guard. However, on our part as Sidik Mia […]
President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday started visiting areas affected by floods that have rendered about 114 000 people in about 10 districts in the country destitute and has assured people wthat government would do everything it could to ensure that they have all the necessary humanitarian support required. Mutharika’s first stop was in Balaka District […]
The Department of Climate Change and Meteological Services has warned a spell of unsettled weather, marked by heavy thundershowers, strong winds that will batter some parts of the Southern Region from Friday. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the department is asking Malawians that to secure property and lives, the public should therefore […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has admitted that being an elections period, floods occurring in some parts of the the country have greatly affected its operations. The development has therefore forced the Commission to reschedule the dates for holding the vetting exercise in the affected councils. A statement released on Tuesday revealed that the exercise […]
The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) has confirmed to have recorded 45 deaths and 577 injuries as of Monday 11th March 2019 as a result of floods in some parts other country. The deparent also revealed that wo people have been reported missing. By Monday, the floods had affected about 147,958 households (approximately 739,790 […]
Flood hit Mozambicans are now moving to Malawi, especially in Nsanje where they have taken temporary shelter with Malawians in make-shift camps. Nsanje district commissioner Rengard Chavula confirmed that the district has Mozambicans who have fled their country because of flooding. “We cannot turn them away, they are in problems because of natural calamity just […]
UTM Party Vice President Dr Michael Usi on Sunday visited and cheered people who have been affected by flash floods in Blantyre Rural South West. Usi assured the people that UTM party will do all it can to ensure that their lives get back to normal. During the visit the UTM Vice President who is […]