In order to increase cash incomes for poor households and reduce food insecurity in Nsanje, Government has released K420, 473, 469 for the people in the District. Nsanje District Commissioner, Rodney Simwaka, said on Wednesday that the beneficiaries will access the money through public works cash transfer labour intensive activities which include afforestation, land resource […]
Twenty-seven year-old, Margaret Kazembe, is in police custody for allegedly burning her ten-year-old son’s hands on suspicion that he stole money from the house. Nsanje police spokesman Samson Balakasi confirmed that the law enforcers are keeping in custody the woman after the father of the victim complained. Balakasi said the mother allegedly “immersed her son’s hands in […]
The People’s Party (PP) of State Vice President Joyce Banda has refuted insinuations by some individuals in Nsanje that the VP cheated flood victims allegedly for not dispatching relief items after recording names of the would-be beneficiaries. The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) mouthpiece, Sky News of Friday, March 2, 2012, reported that the VP […]
There was panic at Nsanje Boma MBC outside broadcasting unit and the Broadcasting House (BH) at Chichiri in Blantyre following a blackout that ensued during a live coverage of President Bingu wa Mutharika. President Mutharika was in Nsanje to officially launch the long awaited and heavily politicized 50km Nsanje-Bangula road. Transmission went off for seven […]
Barely a week after authorities prevented the country’s Vice President Joyce Banda from donating relief items to flood victims in Nsanje district, First Lady Calista Mutharika was on Sunday in the area distributing the items before holding a rally where she lambasted opposition leaders. The estranged VP was refused access to visit the flood victims […]
Member of Parliament for Nsanje south west constituency who is also Deputy Minister for Natural resources Energy and Environment, Vera Chilewani, says she was dismayed with the Vice-President Joyce Banda who wanted to donate relief items to floods victims in her constituency, saying it was not amongst the affected areas in Nsanje. Banda was stopped from presenting the donations […]
The Malawian government has backtracked on its demand that Mozambique authorise merchant shipping to use the Zambezi and Shire rivers to carry goods to and from landlocked Malawi. Four delegates from Malawi’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development led by Minister Sidik Mia went to Mozambique to discuss with authorities of the most strategic country […]
District Assembly officials and the police on Friday barred State Vice President Joyce Banda from making an official donation of food, blankets and other relief items to families that fell victim of perennial floods in the Lower Shire district of Nsanje. Prominent among the relief items are 500 bags of flour. According to a senior district […]
About 448 households have been displaced, face possible starvation and are at risk of catching waterborne diseases due to heavy flooding that has wrecked houses and crops since last week in Nsanje. According to Nsanje District Commissioner (DC) Rodney Simwaka, the flooding that originated from Shire, Nyamalikombe and Thangazi rivers has hit mainly Bangula and […]