In a bid to quell rising anxiety among motorists regarding fuel availability, the National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has issued a strong assurance that the country possesses sufficient fuel stocks to meet demand. This statement comes after reports of fuel shortages in several regions, particularly the Southern Region, sparked concerns about potential scarcity. The […] The post NOCMA reassures motorists amid fuel supply concerns appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Minister of Agriculture Sam Dalitso Kawale on Thursday handed over state-of-the-art tractors and a Scania truck worth K1 billion, funded by the Agricultural Commercialization Project (AGCOM). The equipment will significantly boost productivity for local cooperatives. During the handover ceremony, Minister Kawale emphasized that these modern tractors will enable farmers to prepare their land efficiently, reducing […] The post Agricultural Transformation: Minister Hands Over Modern Tractors and Truck to Salima Cooperatives appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

In a recent turn of events, Alfred Gangata, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for the Central Region, has firmly denied authorship of a letter that purportedly threatened human rights activist and lawyer Alexious Kamangila. The controversy has reignited discussions about the dynamics of political discourse in Malawi, particularly concerning freedom of expression and […] The post DPP Vice President Gangata disowns alleged intimidation letter: “I am a law-abiding citizen.” appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Eleven (11) women claiming to be victims of Magistrate Diana Kamwangala Mangwana have penned the Chief Justice, Rezine Mzikamanda, asking him to take a disciplinary action on the magistrate whom they are accusing of engaging in corrupt practices. Mangwana serves at the Child Justice Court in Lilongwe where the disgruntled women allege she is soliciting […] The post Women accuse fellow woman Magistrate Diana Mangwana of being corrupt, reports her to Chief Justice appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Founder of First Capital Bank (FCB), Hitesh Anadkat, together with shareholder based in Kenya, Rasik Kantaria, have personally met the shortfall of K74 million of the budget of K210 million which Beit Cure International hospital targeted in its fundraising dinner towards life-changing children’s orthopedic surgeries. On top of this, FCB also contributed K50 million towards […] The post Anadkat family, FCB shareholder Kantaria supports Beit Cure with K74m  appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious destruction of nature, with host city Cali on high alert after threats from guerrilla groups. The high-stakes UN biodiversity gathering is set to start Monday under the protection of some 11,000 Colombian police and soldiers, aided by UN and US security personnel. About 12,000 delegates including 140 government ministers and seven heads of state are due to attend the world's biggest nature protection conference, held every two years. The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will run to November 1. Themed «Peace with Nature,» it has the urgent task of coming up with monitoring and funding mechanisms to ensure that 23 UN targets agreed in 2022 to «halt and reverse» species destruction can be met by 2030. Colombia's EMC left-wing guerrilla group has cast a shadow over the event by warning foreign delegations to stay away. The group issued the threat after being targeted by military raids in the southwest Cauca department, where the group is accused of engaging in drug trafficking and illegal mining. Cali is the closest big city to EMC-controlled territory. President Gustavo Petro has insisted security for the COP16 is «guaranteed,» and Cali's mayor Alejandro Eder also has assured that the city is «ready» for the event. - Natural system 'in peril' - The delegates have their work cut out for them. There are just five years left to achieve the UN goal of placing 30 percent of land and sea areas under protection by 2030. So far, only 29 of 196 countries signed up to the UN biodiversity convention have submitted national strategies by the COP16 deadline, and funding is falling far short. A report Thursday by a group of non-governmental organizations revealed that just 2.8 percent of the world's oceans were protected «effectively.» At current rates, the figure would not reach 10 percent by 2030. The IPBES inter-governmental science and policy body says three-quarters of Earth's land surface has been significantly altered since 1970 and 66 percent of oceans degraded. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which keeps a red list of threatened animals and plants, more than a quarter of assessed species are threatened with extinction. «Our system is in peril,» WWF's senior director of global policy and advocacy, Lin Li, told AFP ahead of the talks. «The system that is... supporting us as a human species, which is the natural system, ecological systems, are being attacked.» To try to reverse the trend, the so-called Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted in 2022 lists 23 ambitious targets for 2030. They include restoring 30 percent of degraded ecosystems, stopping destructive farm subsidies, reducing pesticide use and tackling invasive species. COP16 will assess progress made towards the targets, which also include rich countries forking out $20 billion per year by 2025, rising to $30 billion by 2030, to help the developing world -- which hosts most of the world's biodiversity -- save its ecosystems. «We are hoping to hear a lot more pledges at this COP,» IUCN senior program manager for conservation action Dao Nguyen told AFP. «If there are none, it's going to be quite a deflated COP.» A key goal of the meeting is to agree on a mechanism for sharing the profits and other benefits of genetic information taken from plants and animals, for medicine for example, with the communities they come from. Host Colombia is one of the most biodiverse in the world, and Petro has made environmental protection a priority. But the country has struggled to extricate itself from six decades of armed conflict between leftist guerrillas such as the EMC, right-wing paramilitaries, drug gangs, and the state. © Agence France-Presse

Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was ousted from office on Thursday after being impeached in an unprecedented political saga that has gripped the nation. In a historic move, the Senate voted to impeach Gachagua on five of 11 charges, after a similar motion was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house National Assembly last week. The vote capped a day of high drama which saw the embattled 59-year-old known as «Riggy G» fail to testify in his defence after being admitted to hospital with severe chest pains. He is the first deputy president to be sacked in this manner since impeachment was introduced in Kenya's revised 2010 constitution. His downfall is the culmination of a bitter falling out with President William Ruto, who he helped win a 2022 election by rallying support from the vote-rich Mount Kenya region. «The Senate has resolved to remove from office, by impeachment, his excellency Rigathi Gachagua, the deputy president of the Republic of Kenya,» Senate speaker Amason Kingi said after the vote. «Accordingly his excellency Rigathi Gachagua ceases to hold office.» Gachagua was found guilty on charges of «gross violation» of the constitution, including threatening judges and practising ethnically divisive politics, but cleared of others including corruption and money-laundering. Gachagua had denied all allegations against him as «nonsensical» and «outrageous» and claimed he was being treated like a «spent cartridge». - Lawyers walk out - The process has created a mood of political uncertainty in a country regarded as a stable democracy in the volatile East Africa region. While his fate was being determined in parliament, Gachagua underwent tests in hospital in the Nairobi suburb of Karen. «He came in with a lot of chest pain,» Karen Hospital's chief cardiologist Dan Gikonyo told reporters, adding that Gachagua was in a stable condition but would remain in hospital for at least 48-72 hours. The Senate's decision not to postpone its hearing after Gachagua fell ill prompted his lawyers to walk out in protest. They argued that he had a constitutional right to testify in his defence. No criminal proceedings have been launched against him, and Gachagua could fight his impeachment in the courts now the parliamentary process is completed. The 349-member National Assembly had voted by an overwelming 282 votes on October 8 to impeach him, more than the two-thirds required. Unlike the process in the lower house, where MPs delivered their verdict on the entire motion, senators needed to back just one charge, by at least two-thirds of the votes, for the impeachment to succeed. The Senate trial went ahead after Gachagua failed in multiple court challenges to halt the process, the last one just hours before the Senate trial began on Wednesday. Ruto had not made any public comment on the impeachment, but Gachagua has said the process could not have gone ahead without his boss's blessing. «This is what we call political deceit, conmanship and betrayal,» Gachagua had said of the process, insisting that it violated the will of Kenyans who voted for the Ruto-Gachagua ticket in the 2022 election. - 'Maintain peace' - Ruto has 14 days to choose a new deputy, but could nominate someone as early as Friday. Among the names of possible successors floated by the Kenyan media are Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki, Foreign Minister and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and a county governor, Anne Waiguru. A powerful businessman from Kenya's biggest tribe, the Kikuyu, Gachagua had weathered previous corruption scandals to become deputy leader as Ruto's running mate in the tightly fought 2022 election. But in recent weeks, he had complained of being sidelined by the president, while also being accused of supporting youth-led anti-government protests that broke out in June. Political tensions have run high since the sometimes deadly demonstrations erupted over unpopular tax hikes, exposing divisions in the top echelons of power and the ruling party. Addressing churchgoers in his central Kenya sstronghold on Sunday, Gachagua had nevertheless called on his supporters to remain calm. «Let's preach and maintain peace irrespective of the outcome. Kenya is our country,» he said. © Agence France-Presse

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Kenya's senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on five out of 11 charges levelled against him on Thursday, in an unprecedented move that risks pushing the country towards a political crisis.

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Kim Jong Un said that it is a foreign country and a hostile state

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An Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Singapore last Friday (Oct 11) was hit by turbulence about two hours after take-off. In a Reddit post on the following day, one affected passenger said the aircraft encountered «some major bumps, and everything went flying, including a few people». Photos he shared show food items and packaging strewn across the plane aisle as well as liquid stains on the overhead baggage compartments and the cabin's roof. Replying to comments, the passenger said there was no warning and the turbulence «took everyone by surprise». He estimated that the episode lasted four to seven minutes, with «one huge drop in altitude».

A Sengkang resident was dismayed when he found soil and flower pots scattered in front of his unit after returning from a short holiday. Stomp contributor Chong, who went overseas on Oct 10, said he found soil in front of his main door and gate when he returned on Oct 13 at about 9.30pm. «I don't know what happened as I was not around,» he said. He shared that he reported the incident to Ang Mo Kio Town Council (AMKTC) the next day. PHOTO: Stomp «Someone from AMKTC called me and told me they had sent their staff down to clean the corridor on Oct 11,» he said. He also heard from a neighbour that a quarrel occurred in the corridor at the time of the incident. «The pots containing the soil are not mine and have been outside a neighbouring unit for a very long time,» he added.

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La 3ème séance de la session budgétaire s’est ouverte ce jeudi à Tarahoi par une minute de silence en hommage à la mère de la déléguée interministérielle au handicap, décédée cette semaine, mais aussi en mémoire de toutes les femmes décédées du cancer du sein. A l'ordre du jour, plusieurs questions orales, dont une sur les maladies radio-induites, posée par l'élue Tavini Hinamoeura Morgant.

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Whitehall sources say the Chancellor will not renew a 'temporary' 5p cut in fuel duty, which is due to end in March next year, and is considering restoring the annual fuel duty rise.