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Jack McBrams is a correspondent with AFP.

Dangerous reality: Two Soweto spaza shops, one owned by a local and the other a foreign national. Operation Dudula supporters have previously demanded the closure of foreign-owned spaza shops. Photo Kasi Hustlers

The country’s shame and Africa’s failure

The images are painfully familiar. A mob storms into a tiny spaza shop in Soweto. Shelves are inspected like contraband checkpoints. Foreign shopkeepers are interrogated by…

A UK lawsuit accuses conservation fund Ifaw of negligence after elephant relocations led to human deaths, injuries, crop destruction, and people being displaced Photo: Rudi van Aarde

Lawsuit targets Big Conservation over deadly elephant translocation in Malawi

A UK lawsuit accuses conservation fund Ifaw of negligence after elephant relocations led to human deaths, injuries, crop destruction, and people being displaced

Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Malawi vice-president, nine others, killed in plane crash

The military plane carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others disappeared on Monday

Washed away: Holiday resorts and homes along the lake’s shore are being damaged. Photo: Jack McBrams

Lake Malawi’s lake is rising, flooding its beaches

The lake has been swelling since late February, disrupting the country’s tourism industry

BLANTYRE, MALAWI – JANUARY 18: An aerial view of landslide and damage caused by flash floods from Severe Tropical Cyclone Freddy, an exceptionally long-lived, powerful, and deadly tropical cyclone that traversed the southern Indian Ocean for more than five weeks in February and March 2023 hitting the Southern regions of Malawi, on January 18, 2024 in Blantyre, Malawi. (Photo by Contigo/Getty Images)

Climate crisis pushes Malawi food farmers into starvation

The devastation of Cyclone Freddy, which Storm Ana and Cyclone Gombe, is being exacerbated by the drought brought on by El Niño

Labour: Andrew Chunga and a friend are among many Malawians working in Israel after Israelis were recruited into the army. Photo: Andrew Chunga

Israel is recruiting Malawian workers

The Middle Eastern country needs its workers to stay in the army, but it also needs to keep its economy going

Forced out: Families are shuttled from Maula Prison to Dzaleka. Photo: Jack McBrams

Families trucked off to prison in Malawi crackdown on expatriates

Refugees ‘hounded like dogs’ by the police and army despite protests by the United Nations Refugee Agency and civil society

Help us: Khadija, who is being held in a camp in north-eastern Syria, wants the South African government to ensure she and other citizens return to the country.

Bring us home, pleads South African woman held in Syria

A woman who went to Syria to rescue her brother’s children is being held in horrific conditions

Qatar needed a huge number of workers to build stadiums in the desert for the World Cup. A study reports the human cost to migrant workers. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Slaving for the beautiful game: Africans among exploited migrants in Qatar

Qatar needed a huge number of workers to build stadiums in the desert for the World Cup. A study reports the human cost to migrant workers

The second coming of Shepherd Bushiri

The so-called prophet is now building an expansive hotel complex on the shores of Lake Malawi

On trial: The case against the former president of Malawi, Bakili Muluzi, first began in 2009 but has been delayed until now. Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP

Former Malawi president’s graft trial gets the green light

Bakili Muluzi will face corruption charges for pocketing funding that was meant to build a new hospital

Lazarus Chakwera, Malawi’s President. (Amos Gumulira/AFP)

President dissolved cabinet to unravel Malawi’s web of corruption

President Lazarus Chakwera was elected with a mandate to clear up corruption. But this pits him against some of the country’s richest men and even members of his own cabinet

Malawi’s Constitutional Court annulled the results of the May 2019 presidential election. (AFP)

Malawi’s Mutharika re-elected amid vote-rigging claims

The final count of last week’s vote was released after a court battle

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Netflix film tells tale of Malawian eco boy genius

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which launched on Netflix last Friday, is based on the true-life story of Malawian child inventor William Kamkwamba

“From the 1990s, the frequency of the drying has increased and this is connected to the impacts of extreme weather events typical of climate change,” says environmental scientist professor Sosten Chiotha

Receding Malawi lake lays bare cost of climate change

One-and-a-half million people live in the areas on the Lake Chilwa basin — one of the most densely populated areas in southern Africa