Senior Chief Kapeni of Blantyre District vividly recalls the incident that happened in 2012 when he heard the high-pitched and tremulous voice of a woman in dire need of help.
Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare has urged Blantyre District Council to popularise the National Male Engagement Strategy (NMES) and Public Service Workplace Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy in all places.
Beneficiaries of Emergency Urban Cash Transfer Intervention (Mtukula Pakhomo wa Mmizinda) in Blantyre have hailed government for providing them with cash transfers to alleviate immediate economic hardships they face in day to day life as each of the 43,355 beneficiaries received K150,000 this week.
Chichiri Prison has reported 61 confirmed cases of viral conjunctivitis also known as pink eye disease among the inmates, totaling 353 cases registered so far in Blantyre.
Blantyre District Council is geared to roll out a US$100,000 (approximately K180 million) Direct Facility Financing (DFF) to support health centres, dispensaries and community hospitals address minor and urgent needs affecting health service delivery.
District Commissioner for Blantyre, Alex Mdooko, has advised head teachers from primary schools under Blantyre Rural South West Education Division to desist from chasing learners out of classes because of school development fund and uniforms.
Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change Michael Usi has encouraged Malawians to utilise the National Forestry Season by planting more trees along the river banks as one way of restoring and protecting the rivers and conserving the environment.
Blantyre District Council has approved a K44.7 billion budget for the 2024/2025 financial year, an increase of 55 percent from the previous budget that was pegged at K28.7 billion.Blantyre District Council,
District Commissioner for Blantyre, Alex Mdooko, has challenged Unified Beneficiary Registry (UBR) enumerators to exercise professionalism, integrity and loyalty during household data collection exercise to ensure collection of accurate information that shall help in the implementation of social protection programmes in the district.
Blantyre District Council has recruited 130 temporary enumerators to collect data of all the households in the district for the Unified Beneficiary Registry (UBR).
As climate change continues to wreak havoc in many areas, especially in drought-prone areas, farmers under the Chiyanjano group at Group Village head Imbwa’s area tell an outright different story.
Blantyre  district council through the agriculture sector has launched a district-based catchment conservation management project to address land degradation problems and climate change impacts