By Emmanuel Chilemba: In Traditional Authority Makhwira area in Chikwawa District, learners have to walk uphill to access Nkudzi Community Day Secondary School (CDSS). That was the only piece of land available for the District Development Fund proje...

HARD HIT—Locals By Nelson Gonjani: Across the country, unresolved land disputes continue to flourish. In Kasungu District, one such dispute has persisted for more than 10 years, trapping over a hundred households in a prolonged legal limbo and put...

Former FCB Nyasa Big Bullets coach Peter Mponda has agreed to sign a three-year deal with Masters Group of Companies who have reportedly acquired Baka City’s top-flight league status. Masters Security Group of Companies acting Chief Executive Offic...

Silver Strikers and Mzuzu City Hammers will lock horns in the 2025 Castel Challenge Cup round of 16 at Rumphi Stadium this afternoon. At stake is a place in the quarterfinals against defending champions Mighty Wanderers next week at a venue yet to be...

The inaugural National Bank of Malawi (NBM) Women’s Premiership will conclude tomorrow at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe. This comes after the Football Association of Malawi (Fam) moved back the NBM Women’s Premiership match between Silver Strikers L...

POWER OF ELECTRICITY—Kacheka printing examinations at her school By Sphiwe Dorias: Milumbe Community Day Secondary School in rural parts of Mulanje District is basking in the glory of an historical achievement. For the first time since its establi...

Maize hoarding continues to be one of the most persistent and damaging problems affecting Malawi’s food security system. Year after year, the same patterns repeat themselves. Traders buy maize from desperate farmers at low prices, hoard it in antic...

With just 94,522 square kilometres of total land area for a population of more than 21 million today, Malawi is a truly land-strained country. But land grabs, while a long-known crisis, are worsening across cities and rural areas of the country. They...

By Mercy Matonga: When cyclone Freddy hit Malawi in 2023, it was the most amount of rain that the country has ever seen. That was three years ago, but there is now a lawsuit against two government entities: the National Water Resources Authority (NW...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Patricia Wiskes has promised to support Malawi Women’s National Football Team, the Scorchers, ahead of this year’s TotalEnergies Caf Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) finals. She made the commitment af...