Statement 10th December 2018: The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will travel to Malawi on 11 December to attend a ceremony to honor the six Malawian peacekeepers killed in the joint United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Read More
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On 10th December, International Human Rights Day we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The world’s most widely translated and most influential human rights document proclaims that we are all born free and equal Read More
Tikhala Itaye, a women and girls’ rights defender, co-founded her NGO, Her Liberty, after realising she could not get answers on why girls were treated differently from boys in her country, Malawi. “When I started my first year of university, Read More
24th November 2018: Malawi has launched a Free to Shine initiative to fight HIV and AIDS through increased reduction of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Malawi’s First Lady Prof. Gertrude Mutharika launched the initiative in Lilongwe on 31 October 2018, saying the Read More
23rd November 2018: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Malawi during the month of October assisted 2,603 Mozambique asylum seekers who were being hosted at Luwani Refugee Camp with a voluntary return to their native country. The voluntary Read More
22nd November 2018: On a hot and windy day in Kasungu, a drone operator prepares his flying machine for an important project. Joined by officers from the government’s Department of Agriculture and staff from three United Nations agencies, the operator Read More
21st November 2018: Chifundo Mmane is a local farmer who has seen her income grow having ventured in horticulture business. She is among 20 women farmers singing songs of joy from Chinkwende Village in Traditional Authority Bvumbwe, Thyolo. Through the Read More
20th November 2018: Continuing with the World Food Day 2018 commemorations, the European Union Delegation in Malawi funded a World Food Day debate, at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) on 26th October. This event called for action Read More
19th November 2018: Zero hunger means working together to ensure that everyone, everywhere, has access to the safe, healthy and nutritious food that they need.” This was the spirit of the day on 23 October, at the World Food Day Read More
