THE Joyce Banda administration has set focus on direct reaction to rural poverty as a response priority aimed at reducing disturbing poverty head-count figures currently staggering around 50.7 per cent.
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JB challenged on implementation
- 18 May 2013
- MacDonald Thom
The country's main opposition political parties have said although President Joyce Banda delivered a "good vision" speech Friday in Parliament, implementation of the issues highlighted is more important than just delivering it.
Govt owes Ex-Air Malawi staff K643m
- 18 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
Ex-employees of the liquidated Air Malawi Company Limited have accused government of failure to pay over K643 million towards their Pension Fund, Malawi News has learnt.
Cancer cases on the increase
- 11 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
Cancer cases are on the increase in Malawi, the Ministry of Health and a study by the national cancer registry have said.
Mist surrounds government expenditure control measures
- 11 May 2013
- Archibald Kasakura
Government is failing to explain how much it has saved since it introduced nine economic cost-cutting measures in December last year.
JB in Africa’s big league
- 11 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
President Joyce Banda has been named as one of Africa's 'big' 50 movers and shakers by Global International Briefing magazine commissioned by the Commonwealth secretariat.
OPC accused of double standards
- 11 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) is playing double standards in the employment of two top senior public officers within the government system who were both arrested and cleared of corruption charges.
Illegal maize buyers invade Neno
- 04 May 2013
- Archibald Kasakura
Neno risks another round of hunger if authorities do not intervene as some unlicensed buyers are buying maize in bulk forcing local leaders to press the panic button.
Malawi risks losing K4bn donor project
- 04 May 2013
- Gabriel Kamlomo
Malawi risks the suspension of a K4 billion donor project because the Department of Buildings has, for the past ten months, failed to come up with Terms of Reference (ToRs) crucial to the commencement of works.
PS accuses media of ignoring education activities
- 04 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
The Ministry of Education has said the media did not report on the Week of Action for the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) that was observed between April 21 and 28 last week leading to a conclusion that the week passed silently in the country.
Poly students petition JB
- 04 May 2013
- Steve Gulumba
Students of the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, on Thursday marched to the District Commissioner's office in Blantyre to hand over a petition to President Joyce Banda in which they spelt out their grievances over insufficient allowances and increased tuition fees.
Running mate battles start in DPP
- 04 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
Jockeying for position is underway in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as party bigwigs are eyeing to be running mate for the former ruling party's presidential candidate Peter Mutharika in next year's tripartite elections.
Malawian nurses stranded in UK
- 04 May 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
An unidentified number of Malawian nurses, who migrated to the United Kingdom in search of greener pastures, are said to be stranded in that country after finding themselves out of work due to changes in the UK immigration policy.
Prisoners accuse authorities of abuse
- 27 April 2013
- Archibald Kasakura
A letter of complaints from inmates at Chichiri Prison leaked to Malawi News has catalogued starvation, corruption, gross Human Rights abuses perpetrated by some prison authorities and illicit business enterprises by some warders at the correctional facility.
Traffic directorate using insecure paper for documents
- 27 April 2013
- Archibald Kasakura
The Road Traffic Directorate (RTD) is using insecure paper in the production of important documents, a development that may be prone to forgery.
Macra board investigating GOtv
- 27 April 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
The board of the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (Macra) has said it is investigating how GOtv, launched in January by MultiChoice Malawi as a low-cost pay-television, found itself operating in the country with an alleged irregular license.
Govt accused of abandoning Bus Company
- 27 April 2013
- GREGORY GONDWE
Government has abandoned the National Bus Services Limited in which it has shares on behalf of the public, leaving the other minority shareholder Abraham John Simama to engage in legal battles with the majority shareholder Mulli Brothers Limited (MBL).
‘JB trip can pay 12 teachers for a year’
- 15 April 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
Africa Network Campaign on Education for All (Ancefa) has established that the K15 million that President Joyce Banda reportedly spends on a single local trip can be used to pay at least 12 teachers at an average salary of K100, 000 per month for the whole year.
Alleged JB letter rots in jail
- 15 April 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
A man is languishing at Maula Prison in Lilongwe after he was arrested on March 6 as the main suspect behind a letter in which President Joyce Banda purportedly tendered her resignation to the Speaker of Parliament due to poor health.
State House attacks civil society on Bingu
- 07 April 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
State House has attacked civil society bodies in the country for what it calls its failure to call for accountability on the money that late President Bingu wa Mutharika collected from the public for the Bingu Silver Gray Foundation.
More dirt in Kayelekera deal
- 07 April 2013
- Gregory Gondwe
Government is going to lose millions of dollars in the Kayele¬kera Uranium Mining deal due to negligence, Malawi News can exclusively reveal.

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