Reporter interviewing inmate at Dedza Prison By Imam Wali: When Madalitso Banda  walked out of Dedza Prison on July 18, 2023, she carried a tailoring certificate and a heart set on a fresh start. But the five years she served for impersonating a nur...

READY TO CHANGE THINGS – Howard Nzambweulemba By Imam Wali: In Dedza’s ancestral reaches, villages are forgotten. Citizens under Senior Chief Kachere exist in political purgatory. They are trapped between shifting constituency lines. Here, progre...

By Pemphero Malimba: The Public Accounts Committee (Pac) of Parliament says it will this week submit its report to Parliament on its inquiry into the purchase of Amaryllis Hotel. If Pac proceeds with the action, it will do so without the testimony o...

A special parliamentary committee established to investigate the crash of a Malawi Defence Force (MDF) aircraft that killed former State vice-president Saulos Klaus Chilima and eight others Monday elected Nsanje Central legislator Walter Nyamilandu a...

The Malawi National Football Team has a chance to atone for its lack of spark when facing hosts Botswana in a third-place battle in the Mukuru Four Nations Tournament at Obed Itani Chilume Stadium. The Flames endured a bad start to the tournament whe...

SPARKING HOPE—The Shire Valley Transformation Project For the first time in 42 years, Lucy Pandamale Simeon received Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services weather updates without a sense of trepidation. “This is because we have...

Fuel tanker at Nocma By Wezzie Gausi: At dawn in Lilongwe, a line of vehicles snakes quietly into a filling station. Some drivers have spent the night in their cars, hoping the pumps will open before the queue runs dry. For many Malawians, fuel short...

Mobile money services in Malawi recorded significant growth in 2025, as the value of transactions nearly doubled, jumping by 94 percent to K37.9 trillion from K19.5 trillion the previous year. This is according to the 2025 National Payments System (N...

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has said harmonising regional payment systems is key to facilitating cross-border trade. RBM Deputy Governor Kisu Simwaka made the remarks in Lilongwe on Friday during a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (...

By Deborah Madeya The notification came in an instant. A customer had just withdrawn money using his agent code, the screen of the phone said so. He paid the money without having a second thought; just another routine transaction in a long day of bu...