The First Lady Professor Gertrude Mutharika has encouraged inmates at Blantyre Prison to put more focus and concentration on their education as they serve their sentences.

The completion of rehabilitation works at Nkula A, rehabilitation of Lilongwe A and Kanengo diesel generators have helped the country reduce its load shedding schedule to almost two hours per day.

President Professor Peter Mutharika who is also Minister responsible for public service has granted leave days to civil servants from 24th December 2018 to 4th January 2019.

Blantyre is said to be one of the districts with the highest prevalence rate of HIV in the country. Reports indicate that eighteen out of every 100 people in the country’s commercial city are living with the virus as compared to the national rate of 9 out of every 100 people.