The postponement of fresh parliamentary elections in Nsanje South and Mangochi East has raised questions about the independence, preparedness, and institutional resilience of the Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec). The two constituencies were schedule...

By Brenda Kayo: The Lilongwe Magistrate Court Friday denied bail to former chief executive officer of Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) Collins Magalasi, who is answering three charges arising from the proposed sale of Amaryllis Hotel. Magal...

Simba Sports Club coach Steve Barker has said his charges are not underestimating Mighty Wanderers as the two sides clash in the Caf Champions League first preliminary first leg at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe Sunday. This is a big test for eit...

NANKUMBA—The trees used to protect us By Imam Wali: Early this year, violent floods wreak havoc in the area of Senior Chief Nankumba in Mangochi, displacing about 800 households in a single night. For community members like Irene Justin, a mother i...

Blantyre Water Board (BWB) is a public institution, not a battlefield for personal rivalries. Yet the continuing confrontation between its board and Chief Executive Officer Yeremia Chihana increasingly gives the impression that individual differences...

By Kingsley Jassi: Malawian exporters shipped $32 million worth of goods to United States of America in the first six months of this year, which is $5.9 million more than what was exported in the corresponding period last year. This is according to s...

Digital payments activities slowed in the first quarter of 2026, recording a 9.2 percent decline in transaction volumes and a 28.4 percent drop in value from the previous quarter. The latest National Payments System (NPS) Report published by the Rese...

By Phillip Madinga: Last week, I stood before hundreds of young Malawians at the National Youth Summit in Lilongwe, and made a simple case: young people are not the leaders of tomorrow, they are the leaders of today. A week on, with the National Econ...

The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Speaker of Parliament Sameer Suleman are on a collision course over Parliament’s planned inquiries into alleged irregularities, poor service delivery and corruption in several public institutions...

By Brenda Kayo: Malawi is stepping up domestic financing for HIV programmes as declining donor support threatens to undermine gains made in the fight against the epidemic, the National Aids Commission (Nac) has said. The latest UNAids report, ‘Uni...