His Excellency the President Professor Peter Mutharika on Monday took some time to brief the national and journalist to talk about some crucial matters happening in Malawi.

Young women in the country have been encouraged to actively participate in party politics if gender equality is to be achieved.

United Democratic Front (UDF) 1st Vice President Igbar Omar has been expelled from the Party on the grounds that he was forming parallel structures.

Government said it followed all procedures in the distribution and sale of 177 tractors and 144 maize shellers which government acquired for the mechanisation of smallholder farming in the country.