Council tells refugees to leave businesses, relocate to Dzaleka

Lilongwe city council has given refugees 90 days to fold up their businesses in the city and relocate to Dzaleka refugee camp in Dowa. Lilongwe city council chief executive officer John Chome said this has been arrived at after intense consultations with the refugees leadership. Refugees, especially from Burundi and Rwanda run various businesses, including […]

Councils fail to enforce Covid-19 strict preventive measures due to politicians

Councils say are now unable to enforce strict preventive measures on covid-19 due to politicians who hold political rallies without seeking permission. Lilongwe city council chief executive officer John Chome said the council is helpless as politicians are in the forefront disregarding the strict preventive measures for covid-19 which include public gathering of not more […]

Lilongwe City Council chief for concerted, coordinated support to flood victims

The Lilongwe City Council chief executive officer, John Chome, has urged various stakeholders to come up with concerted and well-coordinated measures in response to the raging floods in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The country has, for the past few days, been receiving unprecedented rainfall patterns, in some cases lasting for two or more hours of continuous […]