In an effort to combat illegal fuel vending in Chitipa District, Chitipa Police have confiscated 1,200 litres of petrol and arrested one suspect for being in possession of fuel in jerry cans without proper documents.
Police in Chitipa District are keeping in custody a 60-year-old man, Clement Kayange, for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old Standard 7 girl in the district.
In an interview after touring three schools namely; Naviziba, Yamba and Lufita Primary schools on Thursday, Kundimbule warned School Management Committees, Parent Teacher's Associations and learners on the dangers of early marriages, teen pregnancies and child trafficking.
Billions of Malawi Kwacha have been invested in Chitipa District in various developmental projects. However, when the projects phase out, oftentimes, issues of sustainability become a bottleneck in the district and country as a whole.
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has disclosed that they have managed to sort out the problems the commission encountered during the pilot voter registration exercise, which was held in September this year.
Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and Community Development has assured people in Chitipa that Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) re-targeting exercise will ensure that only eligible beneficiaries benefit from the programme.
Government on Thursday installed Griffin Kaonga as Traditional Authority (TA) Nthalire in Chitipa District with a call for peace and unity amongst the people in the area.
Press Trust on Wednesday donated medical equipment and supplies worth K500 million to Chitipa District Council through the Ministry of Health for the upgrading of Nthalire Health Centre into a rural hospital.
State witness in the Department of Immigration recruitment scandal case, Daston Tasauka Manda, has named former First Lady Getrude Mutharika and other senior Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials as being masterminds of the illegal employment of immigration assistants during the Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika regime.