President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera will leave the country on Tuesday 25th July 2023 for Tanzania to attend Africa Heads of State Human Capital Summit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday.
The World Bank supported meeting will be held on Wednesday, 26th July, 2023.
A statement from the ministry says during the deliberations, President Chakwera will address the summit to promote Malawi’s interests in health, labour, youth empowerment, education and early childhood development for the achievement of Agenda 2063 of the African Union.
“The earoplane carrying his excellency the president and her excellency the first lady is expected to depart Kamuzu International Airport on Tuesday 25th July 2023 at 17 : 00 hrs. Their excellencies the president and the first lady are expected to return home on Thursday 27th July 2023 at 7 : 30 hrs,” reads part of the statement.
The theme for the summit meeting is ‘investing in people for building a high productivity, inclusiveness, resilient economy.’
Journalists from different media institutions in the country especially community radio stations have been urged to accurately report weather related issues so as to avoid misleading the general public.
This was said during a one day long media training that the Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services( DCCMS) organized at Amarylis Hotel in Blantyre on Thursday.
Charles Vanya, DCCMS Deputy Director
The training was aimed at equipping members of the media with skills on how best and accurately they disseminate weather related information to the general public.
In her presentation, DCCMS Director Lucy Mtilatila said members of the media should always be in forefront to make sure that weather or climate change information is accurate and not misleading or threatening people.
Said Mtilatila :“Climate change is not only about disasters. There are many benefits that we could get from it. As the media, we are in a better position to help in relaying such positive information. This gathering will help us to collaborate on this.”
She added:”We need to understand climate in order to utilize it and make sure that we are not vulnerable.
“We blame climate when we have put ourselves in vulnerable situations like settlements.”
Mtilatila said most of the disasters that come due to climate change are preventable.
“To be honest, most of the climate change disasters are preventable but it for us members of the media to them preventable as such through accurate information dissemination,” she said.
The DCCMS Director requested the media to always seek clarification whenever they are not clear on certain climate terminologies or information.
“Again as members of the media, let us provide information that will help communities to make informed decisions,” she added.
On his part, DCCMS Deputy Director Charles Vanya said there is need to continue conducting such media trainings with their department so that journalists are fully knowledgeable and able to report weather related issues without misleading the public.
Vanya added that there should be a strong relationship between journalists and the climate change department to make everything work perfectly.
He hailed journalists for their tireless efforts in disseminating crucial information about the climate change.
Vanya disclosed that currently, DCCMS is in the process of introducing ‘SMS Weather Alerts’ campaign where people will be receiving weather alerts of their particular areas from the department through their mobile phones.
The media training brought together Blantyre-based journalists from different media institutions such as Zodiak, MBC, Nation Publications Limited, MIJ FM, Ufulu FM, Capital FM, Kulinji.com, Ndirande FM, Mzati Radio, 247 Malawi News and Times Radio.
Undergraduate and mature students at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources(LUANAR) will have to dig deeper into their pockets following the institution’s fees hike.
In a statement, LUANAR says fees for undergraduate and diploma students will now be K600,000 from K420,000 per academic year.
The new fees structure at the public university, applies to students at both the institution’s Bunda and Natural Resources College(NRC) campuses.
The institution adds that Open and Distant Learning-ODL students will be paying K500,000 from K350,000
In addition, city campus and mature entry student’s fees is now at K950,000 up from K890,000.
According to LUANAR,the increase is attributed to high costs of operations at the institution.
This is despite the fact that the Malawi’s economy is not progressing well.
Two inmates in the country have been selected to pursue Business Administration (Marketing) and Curinary Arts at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS ) and Mzuzu University (MZUNI ) respectively.
National Prison spokesperson, Chimwemwe Shaba confirmed of the development yesterday saying this is the fifth consecutive year that they have sent inmates to public universities.
Said Shaba”It is a stamp of our seriousness in advancing our correctional agenda in management of prisons.”
According to Shaba, the two are among the 8,552 students that have been selected to various public universities across the country.
Last year, five inmates were selected to various public universities.
Malawi leader President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has emphasized the importance of empowering one another in all areas of life including religion.
President Chakwera was speaking at Masintha Ground in Lilongwe during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Kawale Assemblies of God Harvest Temple.
Chakwera, who provided a short, captivating history, tracing his own early years at Kawale Assemblies of God Church, described it as an honour for him to attend the commemoration whose theme was “Thus Far the Lord Has Helped Us”, extracted from the Biblical book of 1 Samuel 7:12.
Chakwera arriving at Masintha
He emphasized his point on loving one another in all corners of life.
Speaking earlier, Malawi Assemblies of God President Bishop Andrew Dube, who preached a message titled “Celebrating God’s Help and Our Hope”, said the event was all about recognizing what God has done at Kawale Church for the past 40 years.
Bishop Dube, on behalf of Kawale Assemblies of God Church, later presented a gift to Chakwera, who was once a pastor at the church before rising through the ranks to become President of Malawi Assemblies of God.
