Malawians To Elect President On July 2 2020

Casting vote in a ballot box

Malawians will once again to the poll to elect new president on 2nd July 2020, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced.

Fresh presidential elections were called on 3rd February, when the High Court sitting as Constitutional Court in Lilongwe delivered a judgement in which it nullified the 2019 presidential elections and ordered that fresh election be held within 150 days.

MEC announced the date on Monday in Blantyre during the launch of the presidential election electoral calendar.

COVID-19 Threat Forces FAMA To Shift AGM To June 5

Horace Boti: FAMA vice secretary

The Film Association of Malawi (FAMA) has postponed it's Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for 10th April and shifted to June 5, 2020 following Friday declaration of State of Disaster by state President Peter Mutharika due to COVID-19 threat.

Malawi has not registered any confirmed case of Coronavirus but it's neighboring countries of Zambia and Tanzania have registered cases of the pandemic.

Fighting Fake News: WHO Launch WhatsApp Service In Response to COVID-19

Screenshot of COVID-19

WHO WhatsApp Service

Six new countries (two each region) from three continents of African, Americas and Western Pacific have reported cases of COVID-19, according to the World Health Organisation -WHO report on 20th March 2020.

The organization says it has partnered with WhatsApp and Facebook to launch a WHO Health Alert messaging service in order to increase access to reliable information.

Malawi Declared State of Disaster Due to COVID-19 Threat, Schools Ordered to Close

COVID-19 map as of March 19, 2020

Malawi State President Professor Peter Mutharika has declared the country a State of Disaster following COVID-19 threat.

The country has not yet registered any case but neighboring countries, Tanzania and Zambia have registered cases of COVID-19 which cause Coronavirus disease now pandemic.

Malawi Develops COVID-19 Guidelines for Education Institutions

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), has developed guidelines on COVID-19 pandemic to help education institutions manage the disease during school time and on holidays. 

World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11 due to over 118,000 cases of illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread.

The education ministry in it's guidelines issued on yesterday, 17th March, 2020 has urged institutions to follow the prescribed checklist for the prevention and management of the Coronavirus in order to help the protection against infection of learners, students, staff and the general public.

Students Fight, Damages School Over Football Game

Police in Rumphi are hunting for students of Rumphi and Nyika Secondary Schools for damaging schools' properties in a fight over football match.  

Inspector Henry Mnjere, Rumphi Police Station  PRO said students clashed each other yesterday night March 16 and 17 today March 17, 2020 after a football match encounter on that took place on Saturday March 14 2020.

MISA Malawi Asks President Mutharika To Address Continued Harassment On Media

MISA Malawi Chapter has written President Peter Mutharika to make a public denouncement of acts of violence on journalists by his ruling party and police.

MISA Malawi Chairperson Teresa Ndanga said there is continued hostility towards the media through assault and intimidation by members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), United Democratic Front (UDF), police and some members of general public.