Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step
As humanitarian organisations sound the alarm over high malnutrition rates among Malawi’s prisoners, one woman is trying to help keep inmates alive.
As a food crisis unfolds in the country, prisons lack money to purchase even simple food stuffs such as maize flour and beans.
Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.
Equipment for poor farmers allegedly auctioned and bought cheaply by government ‘beneficiaries’.
Healthcare facilities are working to ensure migrant workers are never far from care.
The country knows it needs to diversify its agriculture, but the vested interests of multinational giants is hampering its efforts.
A report by Amnesty International reveals the horror of living with albinism in Malawi where this population is believed to bring immeasurable wealth.
Positive use of cellphones appears to be limited to mundane tasks such as contacting friends to check homework.
Some rain has fallen yet crop yields are still expected to be poor, but aid programmes have opened the door to a more sustainable future.
Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.
Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.
Malawi has renegotiated a $145-million deal with SA’s Paramount group for patrol boats.
Murky dealings around Lake Malawi interceptor boats order
Malawi has renegotiated a $145-million deal with SA’s Paramount group for patrol boats.
Health workers steal drugs that are bought by smugglers and sold to fearful "illegal" foreigners.
Health workers steal drugs that are bought by smugglers and sold to fearful "illegal" foreigners.
Two national parks – one in Zambia and one in Malawi – offer splendid game viewing at a variety of locations.
The Sadc country’s farmers feel trapped in a contract system they blame for low prices and growing debt in its tobacco industry.
A festival at a camp for the displaced in Malawi affirms the dignity of those seeking refuge there.
The music festival on Lake Malawi is the closest thing to paradise.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
The dream of a new life in SA has turned into a nightmare for Ethiopian migrants held in Malawian jails despite having served their sentences.
The army allegedly paid R60-million to a company that didn’t deliver the ammunition.
The upsurge in uniformed crime is undermining the credibility of law enforcement
In her first interview since being voted out of office, former
Malawi president Joyce Banda discusses her eight-month absence from the country.
A leaked audit has hardened suspicions that Cashgate funded election campaigns
The floods have killed 117 people, up from at least 84 dead a week ago, according to Mozambique’s deputy health minister.
Since the flooding started, 13 999 households have been affected, 69 995 people rendered homeless, and 48 lives have so far been lost.