Women Councillors Caucus in Malawi has appealed for financial support from the government, saying it is failing to implement programs to empower women and girls due to resource constraints. The Caucus says it does not want to turn to “foreign donors” for support because such “donors are unpredictable”. Vice-chairperson, Esther Sagawa said this in Mangochi […]
Deputy Minister of Local Government Halima Daud has advised Lilongwe City Council to demolish a sculpture on the Parliament Building round about in Lilongwe which is christened by Malawians on social media as “Chijachi’ as they fail to make sense of the substandard quality. The deputy minister said she toured some facilities in the city […]
Deputy Minister of Local Government, Halima Daudi, has commended Capital Oil Refining Industries (Cori) Limited for disposing their wastes in line with safety and environmental protocols. According to Daudi, processing of waste water at Cori, manufacturers of the popular Kukoma cooking oil, is impressive Daudi was speaking during her recent tour of Blantyre city where she […]
Ministry of Local Government has said the clean-up campaign which was launched in November 2020 still continues amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Deputy Minister for Ministry of Local Government, Halima Daud disclosed this Tuesday, during an interview in Lilongwe. She was quick to mention that the observation of the clean-up day has some reservations which respect […]
Deputy minister of local government, Halima Daudi has said most roads in the country’s major cities are in bad shape, the development she said is worrisome as it is compromising the country’s city’s standards. Daud said apart from the country’s cities having roads which are in bad shape , they are also few a development which she said has resulted […]
Ministry of Local Government has urged chiefs in the country to enhance dissemination of Coronavirus messages to their subjects in order to contain the pandemic. Deputy Minister of Local Government, Halima Daudi, made the call Thursday when she graced installation of Sub Traditional Authority Chiputula after attaining part of Makhuwira area in the district. She […]
Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Halima Daud, on Tuesday installed Bizwasi Pondeponde as the sixth Traditional Authority (T/A) Somba in Blantyre. The installation comes two years after the death of the fifth chief, a development Daud described as yet another milestone that will see the area being positively transformed through the new […]
Deputy Minister of Local Government, Halima Daud says the persisting gaps in gender equality and women’s empowerment are a barrier to the full achievement of development goals in the country. She said this on Tuesday during official opening of a two-day training workshop for women councillors at Linde Motel in Dowa, emphasizing that leaving women […]
Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Halima Daud has said the Lazarus Chakwera-led government will soon elevate Karonga District Council to municipality status in order to enhance development and economic growth of the township. The deputy minister made the call during a meeting with the full council on Wednesday at Baka Community Day […]
Five former Members of Parliament (MPs) from Dowa have failed to make it back to Parliament after losing in the 2019 tripartite elections. According to unofficial election results, the five former MPs who have not made it include MP for Dowa Central and former Minister of Lands and Urban Development, Dr Jean Kalirani, MP for […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) continue to lose key members with the defection of former cabint ministers in the Joyce Banda administration, Haluma Daudi dumping the party for main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). PP has also lost its former administrative secretary Rev Peter Kaleso who has joined a tiny Umodzi Party. Daudi was welcomed […]
The Ministry of Environment Climate Change Management on Friday launched the National Climate Change Investment Plan which is a key instrument the country needs to ensure that effects of climate change are controlled to protect the future generations. The Malawi Government developed the National Climate Change Investment Plan in 2013 which will enable the government […]
People believed to be charcoal vendors in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe on Friday stoned Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Halima Daudi as she travelled to Dzalanyama Forest. Nyasa Times has established that the irate mob, travelling in a lorry registration number MN 3131, threw stones at the minister’s motorcade breaking glasses of a vehicle that belongs to […]
Malawi Minister of Environment and Climate Change Management Halima Daudi has attributed East and Southern Africans vulnerability to climate change to heavy dependence on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for livelihoods and on wood energy for cooking and heating. The Minister made the remarks at the Southern Voices on Climate Change, East and Southern Africa Regional workshop […]
There was drama at Parliament on Thursday when parliamentarian for Dowa Central Dr. Jean Kalilani walked into the chamber donning a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) scarf, contrary to parliamentary regulations. The development caused an uproar from Members of Parliament who proposed that the Dowa Central lawmaker should be thrown out of the august House. Reacting […]
To the doubting Thomas, seeing is believing. In the pictures of this story, former spokesman of late president Bingu wa Mutharika, Dr Hetherwick Ntaba is seen wearing a medical gear when when the UNDP administrator Helen Clark visited Kamuzu Central Hospital to appreciate the work United Nations volunteers are doing. Ntaba is seen welcoming deputy […]
About 60 chiefs from various parts of the country have gathered in Malawi’s Central district of Ntcheu for a workshop on maternal health and Safe motherhood. The participants to the two-day workshop which started Thursday drawn from all districts in the country have been assembled by the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, Child and Maternal Deaths. […]
Opposition party’s parliamentarian in Malawi Jolly Kalero on Wednesday commended efforts by President Mrs Joyce Banda in promoting women’s health thorough her brain child the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood. The initiative was largely established to reduce maternal deaths among mothers in the country. Kalero made the commendation at Lumbadzi Health Centre in the […]