Of Malawi’s cry babies and creators
Lilongwe – On January 1, Mother Nature spawned a purse of 365 unmanufactured days into the lives of about 14 million Malawians who are currently wrestling with a heap of economic challenges tha...
Author Archives: Charles Mkula
Germany’s Ambassador names Youth Center after first German explo...
Lilongwe, Charles Mkula – In the midst of stalled territorial dispute negotiations over ownership of part of the north eastern part of Lake Malawi between Malawi and its neighbour Tanzania, Ge...
Fighting the devil’s work in Malawian youths
Lilongwe – The Malawi Youth Consultative Forum (YCF) will in December re-kindle memories of the country’s first president Dr. Hasting Kamuzu Banda by launching a Voluntary Youth Service Week re...
Malawi’s forgotten population
Mangochi, Malawi – (Newstine Africa) – The tropical September heat took one of its savage waves on Malawi’s southern lakeshore area of Makanjila in Mangochi district forcing 49 year old L...
Malawian awarded IFPRI research fellowship
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and its partners have awarded Ph.D. dissertation research fellowships on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to four individua...
Malawi to control Lake Malawi and Shire River levels through improved ...
Lilongwe – Technical findings of a feasibility study done by the Malawi
Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development have weighed in favour of
the improvement of the Liwonde barrage, christened...
India becomes Malawi’s medical health tourist destination
Lilongwe – (Newstime Africa) – India has become Malawi’s recent medical tourism destination attracting patients and their wards in search for simple as well as complex specialized medical...
Malawi NGO’s taming disability through inclusive ECD education p...
She felt the signs of labour sneaking into her body and immediately alerted her husband who did not waste time but picked her up together with a bag of belongings they had kept in wait for this momen...
Experts uncover evidence of oil and gas potential in Malawi’s Shire Ri...
Lilongwe – As Malawian authorities swing on tenterhooks over the actual borderline separating the southern African nation and its East African neighbour, Tanzania, following reports confirming ...
World Bank and Malawi seal a US$125m Shire River Basin Management Prog...
Malawi’s Ministry of Finance and World Bank Wednesday signed an initial US125 million agreement that is set to boost sustainable social, economic and environmental benefits for 430, 000 people in 86,...
Malawi government to probe Surestream on Lake Malawi oil exploration d...
Lilongwe – Malawi President Joyce Banda has said it intends to investigate the awarding last year of an oil exploration license to UK based Surestream Petroleum Limited. Addressing the press on...
President Joyce Banda lauds local media over Malawi/Tanzania border st...
Lilongwe – Malawi President Joyce Banda Sunday has lauded the local media for handling the Malawi/Tanzania border issue professionally. The president who was addressing the press on arrival fro...
Malawi’s President Banda to engage Tanzanian counterpart on disputed M...
Lilongwe – Malawian President Joyce Banda said Wednesday she was going to hold talks with her Tanazanian countrpart Jakaya Kikwete over the disputed border on Friday. Banda dates Kikwete in Moz...
Private sector gears to spur Malawi’s ICT industry
Lilongwe – With a less vibrant private sector, the government is the single largest and most attractive consumer of technology in Malawi, a situation which has spurred corruption, bribery and p...
Building healthy families through community based family planning
Lilongwe – Akilewo Mathews had not had very happy moments since the last two years. Fatigue, anxiety and uncertainty clouded his mind and had roughed up his face as well as weighed down his bod...
Malawi’s Press Agriculture donates lakeland for green revolution
Lilongwe – The much touted initiative to use Malawi’s abundant water resources for irrigation farming in the face of climate change which has impacted on the country’s food and nutrition securi...