The government continues to pay former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala monthly salaries and benefits despite that he has been idle for months now. In November last year, President Peter Mutharika appointed Fostino Maere as DP...

By Jarson Malowa: A total of 254,486 candidates will start sitting Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations today. The Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) will administer the examinations, which will start with an ...

FCB Nyasa Big Bullets have settled for Zambian coach Wedson Witson Nyirenda in the team’s quest to reclaim supremacy on the domestic scene, Times Sport has learnt. The Blantyre-based giants are in the market for a new technical leader following the...

By Charles Mkoka: At dawn in Kasungu National Park, the landscape is quiet. Then, almost imperceptibly, movement begins. An elephant emerges from the Miombo woodland, following a path etched by generations— one that long predates the border betwee...

In October 2025, President Peter Mutharika issued an Executive Order for some four public bodies, including Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec), to move from Lilongwe back to where they were headquartered in Blantyre and Zomba. Mec is the only body tha...

From massive deforestation to pollution to climate impacts such as floods, heatwaves and drought, Malawi is trapped in a vicious cycle of an environment in a state of collapse. In this loop, thousands of people are dying and the country’s farmland ...

The feud between the Football Association of Malawi (Fam) and the National Football Coaches Association (NFCA) has escalated, with the coaches’ body accusing Fam of systematically breaching its own statutes. NFCA has since threatened legal action o...

Commercial banks have lowered the reference rate for June to 20.4 percent from 20.6 percent in May. This extends a downward trend that has gathered pace in recent months as liquidity conditions improve and government borrowing remains subdued. The re...

The government’s intention to restructure its domestic debt has prompted the Malawi Stock Exchange-listed FDH Bank to take a cautionary stance and withhold the disbursement of a K7 billion final dividend for the year ended December 31, 2025. To rea...

By Maxwell L. Chisala, contributor A country’s true character is revealed not by the challenges it faces, but by how it reacts to failure or responds to its inability to solve the problems confronting it—Samuel Huntington in The Modest Meaning of...