The First Grade Magistrate Court in Mponela, Dowa, has jailed a 72-year-old man to nine years Imprisonment with Hard Labor (IHL) for having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl.
Journalists in the country have been urged to sensitize themselves on how best to report issues during armed conflict, as this can help protect rights and lives of civilians.
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The suspect who was drunk, Malita Kalilani assaulted her mother with a hammer and a heavy metal and postmortem results showed that the death was due to head and internal chest injuries
The suspects, four men and one woman, all employees of the company, were arrested at midnight on Monday after the police thwarted an ongoing heist and recovered items valued at K5,000,000.
The National Child Commission (NCC) has called for collaborative efforts in child protection interventions saying a nation that does not invest in children does not have solid foundations for the future.
Build On Malawi under its Breaking the Cycle of Poverty project has embarked on constructing primary classroom blocks in Dowa to improve access to inclusive and equitable education in the district.
The World Bank, a principal donor in the Investing in Early Years for Growth and Productivity Project (IEYP), has asked for the sustainability of interventions under the project once the financier stops funding the initiative.
Some councillors in Dowa have asked the district council to expedite the allocation of plots to people who want to develop new structures at Dowa boma, where old buildings were demolished last year (2022).
District Commissioner for Dowa, Stallichi Mwambiwa has challenged the District Training Team (DTT) in Dowa to ensure the oncoming exercise to update the Unified Beneficiary Registry (UBR) provides quality data for effective implementation of programmes and interventions in the district.