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President Peter Mutharika has stressed the need for Malawi to devise a new disaster policy that would help reduce damage and expedite rescue operations once the country is faced with calamities.
Mutharika made the remarks Wednesday when he visited flood victims at Bangula Trading Centre in Nsanje District.
Among others, the Malawi leader said the policy would explain the reallocation process of communities living in places marked as disaster prone areas.
Chikhwawa, January 22, 2015: President Professor Peter Mutharika on Wednesday visited some of the people that were affected by recent flooding at Tizola Camp in Chikwawa district.
Speaking at the camp where people from the areas of village headmen Tizola, Nyakayekha and Thedzi are being kept, the President described the flooding as a new phenomenon for the country.
Blantyre, January 22, 2015: First Lady Madam Gertrude Mutharika on Tuesday led the Beautify Malawi Trust Team in donating assorted relief items to 5,830 flood victims in the area of Tradition Authority Kapeni in Blantyre.
SPREAD LOVE & TOGETHERNESS THROUGH SMS DONATIONS TO FLOOD VICTIMS
BLANTYRE, Malawi 22nd January 2015: Leading mobile telecommunications operator Airtel Malawi today announced the launch of a short code that will enable all well-wishers contribute towards the betterment of the welfare of flood victims.
The code 140 is part and parcel of the campaign dubbed #NdifeAmodzi. This is strictly an SMS code and all well-meaning citizens are called on to send a blank SMS or simply text ‘Ndife Amodzi’ to 140.
The Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) would like to join hands with the National Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (NAMISA) in asking the State President, Prof. Peter Mutharika, to reverse his decision to transfer, without explanation, Dr. Benson Tembo away from the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). Continue reading JUMA implores Mutharika to rethink redeployment of Benson Tembo from MBC→
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Zambia’s election commission on Wednesday postponed the announcement of partial results from a presidential vote after complaints from the opposition, whose supporters clashed with police outside the counting center in the capital, Lusaka. Continue reading Zambia Holds off Announcing Election Results Until Thursday→
Raphael Kasambara from Minister to accused attempted Murderer
LILONGWE, Malawi, January 21 (MaraviPost): The High Court in Lilongwe has found two business men, Maxwell Namata and Luke Kasama guilty of theft and money laundering charges in which they attained money amounting to MK 24 Million from the government through illegal encashment of cheques for goods and services they did not offer.
The two who own, Cross Marketing Company were found guilty by Justice Annabel Mtalimanja.
So far, the two had their bail revoked and their sentencing is slated for 2nd February prior to mitigation arguments submission on 29 January.
Namata and Kasama were found guilty despite being represented by famed defense Lawyer Ralph Kasambara who is also answering various charges in the Cashgate scandal.
The two were arrested by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) last year.
So far, only two people, former Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Treza Namathanga Senzani as well former government assistant accountant Victor Sithole are serving jail terms after pleading guilty and avoiding long trials
Senzani was jailed to three years imprisonment for pleading guilty of theft and money laundering of money amounting to MK6 Million.
Sithole was sentenced to nine years for found guilty of being found in possession of unexplained cash suspected to have been stolen amounting to K112 million, $31 800 (about K13.6 million) and R122 400 (about K4.5 million) in hard cash which was found at his house in Area 47 in September last year.
Court is yet to sentence Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Deputy Director of Youth Wyson Zinyemba Soko on charges related to the Cashgate, whose sentencing stalled due to the strike by support staffs at the judiciary.
Soko was found in possession of K40.9 million ($90 000), attained in corrupt ways Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Patrick Chirwa was told that the accused received K40.9 million through his company Watipaso General Dealers from the Ministry of Tourism, something which according to state witness was not true as his company never had a contract with the government.
Over 70 people are answering various charges in the Cashgate crackdown whose sums are now pegged around MK24 Billion in the report from Baker Tilly.
This comes amid pressure from the donor community to the Malawi government to have all the mess linked to the country`s undisputable biggest financial scandal cleaned.
In this Saturday’s episode of Talk To Al Jazeera, five-time Grammy nominee Akon tells Folly Bah Thibault that African-Americans should acknowledge “the rights… and the blessing they do, you know, have actual access to.”
Nkhotakota First Grade Magistrate court on Wednesday fined K40, 000 each or in default two years imprisonment to two Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers who were arrested on December 20 last year after illegally found in possession of Cannabis Sativa.
The court heard through state prosecutor sergeant Ngupasye Muyira that on December 20 last year Grey Chimbulumata 26 from Parachute battalion and Mike Jusab 25 from Mafco in Salima got arrested at Kaombe police check-point after being found in possession of Cannabis without license.
