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National News
Tanzania deports six Malawians
Tanzania on Monday deported six Malawians who were found without requisite travel documents in Mbeya District in southern Tanzania. The…
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Front Page
Chilima visits disaster victims, urges relocation
Raindrops kept hammering rusty iron sheets of an evacuation camp when Vice-President Saulos Chilima visited disaster victims in Mzuzu and…
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National News
Dodma urges Mzuzu flood victims to relocate
The Department of Disaster Management (Dodma) has asked Mzuzu City Council to relocate thousands of residents who occupy wetlands where…
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Editors Pick
Rains displace 958 households in Karonga
Floods keep haunting communities on the northern side of Karonga, with almost 1 000 households comprising about 5 000…
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‘We need local solutions’
JAMES KAMWACHALE KHOMBA is the first professor to emerge from the Faculty of Commerce at the The Polytechnic of the…
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Money, money, shows and no-shows
Good people, Dumisani Jere is not happy—and he is not the only Mzimba resident perturbed by a scheduled encounter…
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Feature
Water for endangered green gold
Investing in dams is cushioning rural tobacco farmers from effects of climate change. JAMES CHAVULA writes. In February, Tobacco…
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National News
Police unearth 30 bags of fertiliser
Police in Nkhata Bay have recovered fertiliser worth about K750 000 (about $1 100) linked to the taxpayer-sponsored Farm…
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National News
Family to construct K100m Chihana mausoleum
Plans are underway to construct a K100 million (about $150 200) mausoleum at the grave of multiparty hero Chakufwa…
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Feature
Water for endangered green gold
Investing in dams is cushioning rural tobacco farmers from effects of climate change, JAMES CHAVULA writes. In February, Tobacco Control…
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This and That
Billy Kaunda’s return exposed
Good people, Balaka music is not dead. Alleluya Band founding leader Paul Banda and his Zembani brother Lucius modernised still…
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National News
Boat owners challenge Marine Department
A silent battle for sailing rights on Lake Malawi has commenced at the Mzuzu courthouse as two passenger boat operators…
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Political Index Feature
If his excellency has ears
Presidential advisers must always seek the President’s ears instead of silencing Malawians or wondering what they ought to be saying…
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National News
Mzuzu Airport shift gets boost
There is hope for the relocation of Mzuzu Airport after Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe…
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Feature
NRWB faces Lake Malawi at last
Only a fool is thirsty in the abundance of water, sings Bob Marley. Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) seems determined…
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Editors Pick
Pastors ask government to arrest Mzuzu homosexuals
Pastors who obtained an injunction against suspension of homosexuality laws in the country have called for the immediate arrest…
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Development
Changing climate, resilient fields
In Chitipa, some farmers from poor background have only recently begun to understand the harsh realities from changing climatic condition.…
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Front Page
Goodall hints at another zero-aid budget
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has hinted at another zero-aid national budget in the 2016/17 financial…
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On MUM awards, tale of two Anglican choirs
Good people, ‘mum’ stopped denoting ‘quietness’ the day local musicians formed a union. Musicians Union of Malawi (MUM) talks…
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Health
Malaria hits Karonga flood survivors
Floods haunt Zindi Village in Karonga every year. When the tragedy struck in February, Lincy Mkwala quickly dispatched her three…
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