After years of underproduction of tobacco, local farmers are now facing a downturn following a season of bountiful yields that has resulted in 15.8 percent overproduction. The market started on a poor note Monday when over 90 percent of tobacco bales...

By Brenda Kayo: Seven civil service unions and associations have broken ranks with traditional labour bodies and formed a new grouping, accusing the Teachers Union of Malawi (Tum) and the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) of failing to represent wor...

FDH Bank plc has set the tone for the inaugural launch of the FDH Bank Premiership, dubbing the top flight league as ‘Waishosha.’ The Malawian football fraternity is possibly buzzing with excitement following the launch of the FDH Bank Premiershi...

By McLoyd Chilangiza: At Zig­wagwa Mar­ket in Mzuzu City, Gib­son Mun­thali moves slowly between bags of maize, care­fully com­par­ing prices before decid­ing what to buy. Mun­thali recalls that a 50-kilo­gramme (kg) bag of maize, which sol...

By Kingsley Jassi: The strug­gling man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor needs a cock­tail of inter­ven­tions if recov­ery to the lost status is to be achieved, the sec­tor’s asso­ci­ation has said. The sec­tor has been strug­gling for years but...

By Kingsley Jassi: An ini­ti­at­ive by the United Nations Devel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP), in col­lab­or­a­tion with the Gov­ern­ment of Malawi, is tar­get­ing five agri­cul­tural value chains to cre­ate thrust for agri­cul­ture co...

By Pemphero Malimba: The Malawi Conference of Catholic Bishops (MCCB) has rallied behind Pope Leo XIV in the ongoing dispute with United States (US) President Donald Trump. MCCB took the position in a press statement dated April 18, 2026 issued by p...

By Isaac Salima: Disagreements between the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) and its tenants over a rental increase appear to be escalating, with the landlord now threatening evictions. Tenants have been protesting against rent increases ranging from...

Mighty Wanderers have lodged a complaint with Football Association of Malawi (Fam) over the conduct of alleged FCB Nyasa Big Bullets supporters during the NBS Bank Charity Shield match at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe on Saturday. In a statement...

Police in Lilongwe have arrested two  people for allegedly selling fake tickets of the 2026 NBS Bank Charity Shield between Mighty Wanderers and FCB Nyasa Big Bullets which took place on Saturday. The two are Mishelo Felix Chambote, 35 and Wyson Kam...