Friday, 15 July 2016

2016/17 Budget Meeting Of Parliament Meeting Ends








The Third Meeting in the 46th Session of Parliament has ended this evening after meeting for 9 consecutive weeks to consider the 2016/2017 Budget.

National Assembly meeting which began on Friday, May 20 was initially planned to end last week on Friday, July 8, 2016 but due to delays during the passing of Budget, Government decided to extend the meeting time to allow the House discuss and pass bills.

Malawi Artists To Reap From Their Work As Copyright Bill Passed By Parliament








Artists in the country expect concerned parties to take up their responsibility in ensuring that the newly passed Copyright bill start to bear fruitful results that will benefit the owners of talent and artistic works.

The Copyright bill has been passed on Thursday repealing a Malawi Copyright Act of 1989 to respond to new developments regarding copyright.

Access To Information Bill Finally Presented In Parliament









Access to Information Bill (ATI) has finally been presented in the National Assembly today.

Minister of Information, Patricia Kaliati presented the bill which has since been referred to the Parliamentary Committee on Media, Information and Communication and Legal Affairs Committee.

Thursday, 14 July 2016

New Yorker Mainali Encourages Malawians To Donate Blood







The New Yorker, Arjun Prasad Mainali, known to have donated blood 155 times is coming to Malawi to donate blood as he closes in to meet his target of reaching a 160 record by the end of this year.

The global blood donor is traveling from New York in the United States of America to Malawi's capital Lilongwe solely to do the needful at Kamuzu Central Hospital by 10 am on 20th August, 2016 to motivate people to donate blood in order to save lives.

Malawi Midwives Ready To Tell Own Stories


About 30 midwives across the country have been equipped with citizen journalism skills to help them write and report their daily work experiences for the public to see the correct picture of their tireless efforts of saving lives and prevailing working conditions.

The initiative championed by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe motherhood is headway in uplifting the Malawi midwifery profile and documenting the outstanding work which mostly go unnoticed as they are only featured highly whenever they make a mistake.

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

WILSA-Malawi In Sensitisation Campaign On Gender Laws







Women and Law in Southern Africa-Malawi (WLSA), has rolled out an initiative of promoting gender related laws in all constituencies represented by female legislator to allow more Malawians understands those legislations.

Mzati Mbeko, National Director for WLSA-Malawi said the three gender related laws which are: Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act; Gender Equality Act and on Trafficking in Persons Act, are not well understood by many Malawians.

Friday, 8 July 2016

Confirmed; National Assembly Meeting Extended

Msowoya announced the extension of time 








The Speaker of the National Assembly, Richard Msowoya and Leader of House, George Chaponda have finally confirmed that the house will continue meeting up until Friday next week.