Maria Stephen dreams of becoming a nurse as she covets their uniform. Since 2015, she has struggled to learn due to lack of sanitation facilities at Milala Primary School in Blantyre. “When I was in Standard One, older students used to urinate and defaecate in the open bush as little ones relieved themselves anywhere. I
Siltation caused by years of cultivation in the Mudi Dam catchment area has resulted in the dam losing 40 percent of its capacity, Blantyre Water Board supply manager Dalitso Godia has said. Speaking during a visit to the dam on Friday, he said the farming activities in the catchment area have resulted in reduction of
Blantyre City Council and vendors plying their business outside Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) reached a compromise yesterday after the latter earlier protested dismantling of their illegal vending stalls. The vendors woke up yesterday to find their stalls burnt down and resorted to blocking the newly rehabilitated Chipatala Avenue leading to the referral hospital and
Demand for illicit distil known as Ambuye Nditengeni linked with deaths of eight imbibers in Blantyre has increased and its price doubled despite police threats to get rid of dealers. The Nation spot-checks in Blantyre yesterday established that the price for the distil has risen by about 120 percent from K300 per 200 millilitre measure