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Malawi, Obituaries, Top News

Ambassador Necton Mhura’s remains to jet into Malawi on Tuesday

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The remains of Ambassador Necton Mhura, who until his demise early last week was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malawi to the United Nations, will arrive in Malawi through Chileka International Airport on Tuesday.

Mhura, who once served as Deputy Chief Secretray to Government from 2010 to 2012 died at New Jersey hospital on 19 February, 2018 in US.

In a statement made available to Maravi Post, the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) said burial ceremony will take place at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Zomba on Thursday 1st March, 2018.

The OPC says more details of the funeral programme will be announced in due course.

Malawi, Obituaries

Malawi’s envoy to UN, Ambassador Necton Mhura succumbs to cancer

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Necton Mhura
Necton Mhuha has died

Malawi’s envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Necton Mhura has died following a long battle with cancer, sources have revealed.

Confirming the news, the Deputy Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of Malawi to the UN, Mr. Loti Dzonzi, informed the Malawi community in the New York/New Jersey areea, via email of the passing of Ambassador Mr. Necton Mhura.

Details of funeral programme are being worked between his family and the Mission and will be communicated later.

Deputy Ambadsador Dzonzi said Ambassador Mhura was admitted to a New Jersey hospital on January 30, 2018 and died today February 19, 2018 at 1:30 P.M. Eastern Standard time.
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Ambassador Mhura took his post as Malawi’s Permanent Representative/Ambassador to the UN in August 2016. Prior t0 this posting, he was briefly Malawi envoy to the United States in Washington D.C.

Regional, SADC

Malawi and Oman establish formal diplomatic relations

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Malawi Ambassadors Necton Mhura and Khalifa bin Ali Issa Al Harthy signed the agreement on behalf of their governments

New York, December 7, 2016: The Government of the Republic of Malawi has with effect from 7th December, 2016, established formal diplomatic relations at Ambassadorial level with the Sultanate of Oman.

Malawi’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Necton Mhura and the Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, Ambassador Khalifa bin Ali Issa Al Harthy, signed a joint communiqué establishing the diplomatic relations on behalf of their respective governments, at a ceremony held at the Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations, in New York. Continue reading Malawi and Oman establish formal diplomatic relations →