The Malawi Police Service(MPS) says as of Saturday, November 12, 2022, 19 out of the 25 people who were in the ill-fated MV Ubale boat that sank in Nkhata Bay have been rescued.
The boat left Chizumulu Island with 25 people and bags of dried usipa on board in the evening of Friday, November 11, 2022.
Upon reaching few kilometres from the mainland near NkhataBay, engines of the boat developed faults and water started flowing into it until it sank.
Meanwhile, the MPS says the Marine Police, some fishermen and other well-wishers are still in the lake working jointly searching for the remaining six people who are still missing.
Nyasa Big Bullets have retained the TNM Super League title following their 3-1 win over Moyale Barracks in an entertaining match played on Saturday at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.
Bullets needed just a draw to be confirmed champions for the fourth consecutive time after they won 2-0 in a mid week fixture against Mighty Tigers.
Man of the Match Lanjesi Nkhoma
Lanjesi Nkhoma who was voted man of the match, was Bullets’ match hero as he netted a brace in both halves to inspire the People’s team to an epic win and 16th super league title.
Nkhoma put Bullets ahead in the 20th minute as he connected well a pass from Precious Sambani to smash the ball into McDonald Harawa’s goal.
Gomezgani Chirwa increased Bullets’ lead 9 minutes later with a beautiful goal volleying over Harawa who had left his line to clear a Nickson Nyasulu’s long ball.
Moyale came an improved side in the second half playing a very beautiful passing game and creating a number of scoring opportunities but it was Bullets who scored first.
Nkhoma scored his second goal and third for Bullets in the 49th minute after a beautiful exchanging of passes with Chimwemwe Idana.
After knocking on Bullets’ goal for a couple of times, Lloyd Njaliwa finally got the back of the net in the 55th minute following a Brown Maganga’s well taken free kick.
Moyale continued to press header but still failed to equalise as Njaliwa and Maganga missed a number of scoring opportunities.
With Saturday’s win, the People’s team have 67 points from 28 games which means even if second placed Blue Eagles win their remaining two games will still not reach the points that Bullets have reached.
The Area 30 side have so far accumulated 59 points from the same number of games as Nyasa Big Bullets.
Moyale are stuck on seventh position with 46 points and the game against Bullets was their last match of the season.
In another super league encounter, relegated TN Stars and Karonga United shared the spoils as they played out to a goal-less draw at Kasungu Stadium.
On Sunday, Ekwendeni Hammers will host Kamuzu Barracks at Mzuzu Stadium and the big one will be at Kamuzu Stadium as Mighty Mukuru Wanderers hosts Civil Service FC who are fighting for a top 8 finish in the league.
The final games of the league will take place next weekend when Nyasa Big Bullets will be officially crowned champions.
Chief of Meteorological Services at the Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Charles Vanya says the country should brace for new threats of five cyclones as the rainy season is here.
Vanya said in an interview with local media on Friday November 11,2022 that in the next two weeks the Southern and the Northern parts of the country will receive heavy rains that will be accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds and will cause some devastation.
The weather expert added that the department is currently, monitoring the occurrence of cyclones.
“In terms of cyclones , the forecast is showing that about five or six cyclones will develop in Indian Ocean and will have impact in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi,” said Vanya.
He was however, quick to point that not all the cyclones will reach Malawi
“From January up to March there are high chances that most of the cyclones that will happen in Indian Ocean will come and affect land, so those are the ones that can have a possibility of causing danger to Malawi,” he said.
According to the disaster response plan released by Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) the country is still struggling to recover from the devastation which was caused by Tropical Storm Ana and Gombe early this year.
The report indicates that the country needed K72.7 billion to successfully implement its response strategy but only K4 billion was available for the initiative.
Madalitso Mnduwira, a BIT 4 student has developed a pair of gloves which is translating sign languages into voice in real time.
The gloves are called “Hand of Speech” and aim at enhancing communication with people of speech impairment.
Madalitso Mnduwira
Speaking with PO, Mnduwira says many people fail to communicate with those of speech impairment due to illiteracy on sign languages, hence the gloves will address the gap.
Speech impairment is a disorder which is caused by brain injury, genetic syndrome, and hearing loss among others.
