By Francis Sitima The Portuguese group Mota-Engil has been awarded the contract to build 138.5 kilometres of railway in southern Malawi that will take 27 months to finish for the Brazilian group Vale for US$703 according to the groups statement field. Currently Vale-Mozambique is building the US$2 billion railway line from Moatize, in the western province of Tete, [...]
Feb 4 2012 | Posted in
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In the first conviction of its kind in SA, a woman has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for the rape of a disabled teenage boy. The 45-year-old woman from Port Elizabeth raped the 13-year-old mentally disabled and physically handicapped teenager in Motherwell in 2009 . She will now be listed in the National [...]
Sad news engulfs the media fraternity in the country as death of two journalists has been announced this week. As the late George Dambula was been laid to rest today, there has been another announcement of the death of Mayeso Chirwa who died early today at Deyang hospital in Lilongwe. Chirwa whose death has also [...]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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Misozi Chanthunya’s friend who was co-habiting with the fugitive was arrested by South African Police and was handed over to the Malawi Embassy in South Africa which later repatriated her to Malawi. The girl, who the police has not revealed her name for “fear of jeopardizing investigations” arrived in Malawi and was arrested on arrival [...]
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By Limbikani Mhura High illiteracy levels are contributing to high rate of teenage pregnancies in Chikhwawa district, Malawi Voice has learnt. The problem is consequently leading to high population growth and rapid spread of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). During a visit by journalists to Chikhwawa District Hospital organised by the Population Reference Bureau [...]
The chief suspect in the murder of an Rudo Mawere found dead in a travel bag on a Dublin street is thought to have killed himself after fleeing to England. Detectives investigating the killing of Rudo Mawere, 26, from Malawi, at the weekend wanted to question a man who was found hanging from a tree [...]
By Austin Kakande The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), a college of all catholic bishops in the country, has endorsed government’s proposal for the adaptation of medical male circumcision as a mean for HIV prevention. However, ECM General Secretary Father George Buleya said the endorsement is on condition that Catholics should be accessing the service [...]
By Justice Mponda The Adams Family founding member Jonathan Gopani has been killed in a road accident involving a National Bus Company coach and a minibus on Makata Road today. Gopani, and the minibus’ driver met their fate when the bus which was coming from National Bus Company Headquarters in Makata was trying to avoid [...]
Four South African men have been sentenced to 18 years in jail for stabbing and stoning to death 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana in 2006. The court found that the men killed Ms Nkonyana because she was living openly as a lesbian. A crowd outside the court in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town township, cheered and danced [...]
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By Justice Mponda The international Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) has approved a US$22.85 million loan and US$22.85 million grant to Malawi to help the smallholder farmers improve food security. Brave Ndisale, who is Malawi’s ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome and Ifad President Kanayo [...]
