Kanyenyeva Ministries has embarked on a drive to mobilize votes from Malawians to stand a chance of qualifying for a U$10 000 grant which has been dangled by US organisation, Kind Foundation which they intend to use for purchasing of blankets for orphans. Kanyenyeva Ministries… Read More »Blanket For Life Initiative in Drive to Support Orphans
The Malawi Under 17 national football team leaves the country on Tuesday morning with focus on winning the Cosafa Youth Championship in Mauritius. The Junior Flames, who last won the championship as hosts in 2001, are looking forward to improve their last year’s outing in… Read More »Junior Flames Leave For Cosafa Youth Championship
According to a recent report from the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Rwanda’s parliament has the highest proportion of women in the world at 63.8%. This is partly due to the country’s new constitution, enacted in 2003, which mandates that at least 30% of all legislative seats be… Read More »Rwanda Has The Highest Number Of Women In The Parliament
Some concerned members of the Students Christian Organization in Malawi (SCOM) Thyolo chapter, have helped a 12 year old form one needy student who is studying at St Patrick’s Catholic Secondary School by paying his school fees. The boy, Ishmael Somozana, who is in form… Read More »Christian Students Bails Out 12 Year old Secondary School Student
The much-awaited optic fibre project that’s set to change the game in Malawi’s ICT profile finally rolls out this Sunday. Escom and Chinese IT giant Huawei Technologies who will implement the Malawi National Optic Fibre Backbone Project made the announcement on Wednesday. President Peter Mutharika… Read More »National Optic Fibre Backbone Project Rolls Out Sunday
ByNigel Richardson, Travel writer On his expeditions through Africa, the explorer and missionary David Livingstone took “salted provisions” but wasted no chance to shoot game for fresh meat. In June 1863, he was exploring the Shire River, a tributary of the Zambezi, when he came… Read More »Miracle of Majete Wildlife Reserve
As the prayers marking 53 years of independence celebrations were getting to its climax at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe, the mood was suddenly dampened with news that eight people had died while making their way into Bingu National Stadium (BNS). The sad… Read More »Malawi President Mutharika Visits Stadium Stampede Victims, Promises Govt Support
By Chris McCall, Scotsman.com A Scot who served in the cabinet of Malawi’s first post-independence government has been invited to return to the African nation in honour of his anti-apartheid work. Colin Cameron, 84, received an official invitation 60 years to the day after he… Read More »Scot Returns to Malawi 60 Years After Helping Win Independence
By BBC News Public servants in Uganda are facing a strict dress code after the government issued a circular warning them to “dress decently”. Female staff have been told not to show any cleavage, wear brightly coloured nails, braids or hair extensions, sleeveless or transparent… Read More »Uganda Govt Bans Mini Skirts
By BBC News When Terry Gobanga – then Terry Apudo – didn’t show up to her wedding, nobody could have guessed that she had been abducted, raped and left for dead by the roadside. It was the first of two tragedies to hit the young… Read More »Shocking: Female Pastor Gang-Raped on Her Wedding Day