Representing the SADC
President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has yet again condemned greed and selfishness among top ranking civil servants and public officers, lamenting that the vices are delaying the country’s transformation. Chakwera said Malawi is failing to develop because some high ranking officers in the public and private sector are too selfish to give others opportunities to … Read More “Malawi: Chakwera Denounces Greed Among Civil Servants, Public Officers” »
Lusaka — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Malawi Police Service to investigate and hold accountable officers who forcibly deleted photographs from the mobile phone of Raphael Mlozoa, a reporter at privately owned broadcaster Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), during a demonstration in the Mangochi district on November 30. Mlozoa had been assigned to … Read More “Malawi Police Seize ZBs Reporter Raphael Mlozoa’s Phone, Delete Photos of Officers’ Conduct” »
Former President of the Republic of Malawi Dr Joyce Banda was on Tuesday accompanied by the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Michael Usi to receive a prestigious community centred best Forestry Initiative in Africa Award at the COP28 currently underway in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Former President led a delegation of … Read More “Malawi Wins Award On Environment At COP28” »
The Government of Japan has given Malawi 5, 200 metric tonnes of fertilizer to Malawi to help the latter in its efforts to produce enough food. The Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Mr. Yoichi Oya, handed over the fertilizers at a function that took place in Lilongwe on Wednesday. In March this year, Japan committed to … Read More “Malawi: Japan Hands Over Malawi 5,200mt of Fertilizer to Malawi” »
Harare — The disaster management unit announced on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 that rescue personnel in Zambia extracted the first survivor of a landslide that occurred on December 1 that submerged an open-pit copper mine, trapping at least 25 unauthorised workers, according to reports. The area around the Seseli Mine in Chingola, approximately 400 km … Read More “Zambia: One Rescued After Zambia Landslide Traps 25 Miners” »
Solwezi — The minister of Zambia’s North West Province, Robert Lihefu, emphasised this Monday in the Zambian town of Solwezi that his country is interested in the Lobito Corridor for inter-regional development, as he considers it to be a strong project and a route to linking strong nations from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean”. … Read More “Southern Africa: Zambia Sees Lobito Corridor As a Strong Platform for Linking Nations” »
In the predominantly women-owned agricultural lands of Serenje District in Zambia’s Central Province, home of the Lala people, a lesser-known form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been unfolding for several years. Large-scale land acquisitions, often without compensation, have put the rural women of Serenje at risk of not only losing their ancestral land but also … Read More “Zambia: Rural Women Confront Land Dispossession As a Form of GBV” »
Cape Town — Thank you so much and thank you so much for joining us today. My name is Memory Banda from Malawi. Sawubona wena. It is a great honour to stand in front of all of your great leaders coming from different organisations and to be here today to share different of the global … Read More “Africa: Memory Banda from Malawi Tells Her Child Marriage Story” »
Cape Town — LISTEN Good afternoon, everyone. How are you? Are you excited to be here? It’s so great to see all of you, and my cards are falling because I like to speak with my hands, which is a very good thing we do in Africa here. My name is Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell. I’m … Read More “Africa: ‘1, 2, 3. A Girl Has Just Been Married. And We Can Keep Counting’ – Girls Not Brides CEO” »
Cape Town — Lakshmi Moore, program director for Girls First Fund Girls First Fund is the first and largest donor collaborative of its size that is solely dedicated to funding efforts to end child marriage. I’m joined here today by a panel that I hope will inspire you all. Together with Girls Not Brides, Vow … Read More “Africa: End Child Marriage – ‘Ensure Perpetrators Are Blamed and Shamed, And Not The Girl’” »
