A shortage of courtrooms has long been a challenge in Malawi, especially since more judges were hired to help to streamline the country’s judicial process. Yet, while the current judiciary is headquartered in the country’s second-largest city of Blantyre, due to a lack of work space; some sections of the judiciary are located elsewhere, such as the juvenile, commercial and industrial courts.  So, when the decision came to move the court headquarters to the capital city of Lilongwe, the issue…

China has been sending medical doctors to provide health services in Malawi’s clinics since 2008. This is in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages by 2030.   Since the first group of 12 Chinese medical workers arrived in Malawi, 11 groups have been dispatched.   The 11th one arrived earlier this year and comprised 18 specialists in internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, radiology, anaesthesiology and laboratory medicine. They were divided…

Malawi is expected to generate hundreds of jobs, thanks to the railway project China Railway Signal and Communication Corp. International will undertake in the country.  Malawi’s Minister of Transport and Public Works Jacob Hara made the comment after returning from the third Road and Belt Forum for International Cooperation that took place in Beijing in October 2023.   The Belt and Road Initiative is a global infrastructure development strategy proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, aiming to promote policy…

LILONGWE, May 26 (Xinhua) — Malawi’s new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths plunged by 73 percent and 69 percent in 2022 from 2010, authorities said on Wednesday. New HIV infections in the country have tumbled from 56,500 in 2010 to 15,000 in 2022 while AIDS-related deaths from 36,000 in 2010 to 11,100 in 2022, said Andrew Gonani, acting CEO of Malawi’s National AIDS Commission, at a dissemination meeting for the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Campaign. The U=U is a global…

THE death toll after Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Malawi stands at 676. At least 533 people are missing. According to a draft assessment report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), some 2,3 million people have been affected, over 1,6 million severely food insecure and over 650 000 displaced. The highest reported impact was in the agriculture sector, where more than 2,26 million people (51 percent women) lost their crops and livestock as 179 223 hectares of land were destroyed. The…

MAVHUTO BANDA TOURISTS are encouraged to visit Malawi and not to be deterred by the recent devastation by tropical Cyclone Freddy. The Southern African country is recovering from the floods, which impacted on some infrastructure. The Central African Wilderness Safaris provided an update on the Liwonde National Park. Mvuu, located in the north of Liwonde, was spared from the devastating effects of Freddy. After a surge of rainfall, the Shire River level has begun to drop slowly and the wet…