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Jack Mcbrams
Jack McBrams is a correspondent with AFP.
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…
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 vice-president, nine others, killed in plane crash
The military plane carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others disappeared on Monday
Lake Malawi’s lake is rising, flooding its beaches
The lake has been swelling since late February, disrupting the country’s tourism industry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Mutharika re-elected amid vote-rigging claims
The final count of last week’s vote was released after a court battle
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
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