[Africa Check] IN SHORT: A recently elected MP sparked outrage with his proposal that Kenya's two-term limit on a president's service be done away with. But a photo of students in a makeshift log and thatch classroom doesn't reflect on his record. It...

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Police in Malawi arrested the head of the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday over an audio recording leaked in January.

[Nyasa Times] A 22-year old Jescar Mponda has been crowned the Miss Malawi 2022, in a highly contested beauty pageant held in Lilongwe on Saturday night.

[Nyasa Times] Police in Mzimba say they are still looking for suspects who harrassed two elderly women by beating them up and forcing them to bury a dead body at a graveyard in Mandala Zimba Village at Eswazini area in Mzimba.

[Nyasa Times] Senior Resident Magistrate Wanangwa Nyirenda on Thursday, December 1st 2022, sentenced Zambian national Kelby Roy Malambo to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for the three charges he faced in the MK53m wildlife crime case involvin...

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi and the World Health Organization are rolling out a new malaria vaccine for young children that backers say will reduce deaths from the mosquito-borne disease.

[Nyasa Times] Officials from the ministry of health say Malawi has cut malaria deaths by 50 percent from 23 deaths per 100,000 population in 2016 to 12 deaths per 100,000 in 2021.

[Nyasa Times] European Union Ambassador to Malawi Rune Skinnebach says devaluation of a currency does not work in countries whose exports are low such as Malawi.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says it "deeply regrets" Malawi's decision to force about 8,000 refugees living in rural and urban areas back to the overcrowded Dzaleka refugee camp. Malawi's minister of homeland security la...

[Nyasa Times] The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) is pleading with government to suspend its decision of relocating refugees and asylum seekers to Dzaleka refugee camp in Dowa.

[Nyasa Times] Myles Leadership University from India has conferred on Prophet Shepherd Bushiri an honorary doctorate degree of Transformation leadership.

[Nyasa Times] Former President Peter Mutharika and wife, Gertrude visited their son Tadikira Mafubza Mutharika on Monday at Maula Prison in Lilongwe.

[Nyasa Times] The High Court in Blantyre has given the government to transfer and redeploy some district commissioners after their application to stop the transfers and redeployment was thrown out.

[Nyasa Times] Former President Peter Mutharika and Former First Lady Gertrude Mutharika say the arrest of their son, Tadikira Mafubza is 'not justified by facts'.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Government and its development partners must seriously consider providing skills training, materials, equipment and business startup loans to people with albinism if the country is to address their destitution and vulnerability, ...

[Nyasa Times] A parliamentarian says the government should investigate thoroughly if those graves of 30 people who were buried in mass graves in Mzimba were not on a mission to kill persons with albinism.

[Nyasa Times] The United States Embassy in Malawi has hailed efforts by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate and pursue accountability in corruption cases.

[Nyasa Times] President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has spoken strongly against harmful cultural practices, advising Malawians to move away from them.

[Nyasa Times] Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Elias Chimlambe, has expressed Malawi Government's commitment to attaining Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which advocates for countries to have potable and clean...

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Vice President Dr Saulos Chilima has been granted bail by the Lilongwe chief resident magistrate Madalitso Chimwaza following his arrest by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday on corruption charges.

[The Herald] Zimbabwe and Malawi yesterday concluded the Third Joint Tourism Technical Committee (JTTC) meeting meant to assess progress on the areas of cooperation agreed to by the two governments.

[Nyasa Times] Finance minister Sosten Gwengwe says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already wired the US$88.3 million (Around K91 billion) to the Reserve Bank of Malawi.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Police in Malawi have arrested four more people in connection with a mass grave uncovered last month with 30 bodies believed to be Ethiopians who had immigrated illegally and are believed to have suffocated to death.

[Nyasa Times] Former president Peter Mutharika's stepson Tadikira Mafubza has been charged with two counts, including murder.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima is out on bail after his arrest in connection with alleged kickbacks. It is the latest in a series of arrests of officials suspected of corruption.

[VOA] Blantyre -- Police in Malawi have arrested the stepson of former President Peter Mutharika in connection with the discovery of a mass grave last month. Police say Tadikira Mafubza turned himself in to police Wednesday. The grave found in a fore...

[African Arguments] Health care in Malawi faces many challenges. A free national hotline is helping address one of them.

[Nyasa Times] Former President Peter Mutharika's step son Tadikira Mafubza is facing human trafficking charges after the police charged him on Thursday, his lawyer has said.

[Nyasa Times] Police in Does have arrested 16 refugees at Dzaleka refugee camp for malicious damage.

[Nyasa Times] Police in Lilongwe have arrested the chief registration officer responsible for national identify cards on allegations that he was issuing the IDs to foreigners.