[Nyasa Times] Some industrial hemp growers in Mzimba are threatening the government with legal action for failure to issue them with licences.

[UN News] In Malawi, as in many countries across the world, funds meant for sexual reproductive health and family planning are being diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and the UN has stepped in to prevent these services from grinding to a halt.

[Nyasa Times] Chiefs in Mulanje have been advised not to impose candidates on their subjects for the Chitakale Ward by-election slated for March 30 2021.

[Nyasa Times] Former presidential secretary Mgeme Kalilani has resigned from the state controlled, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) where he worked for 19 years as a journalist and later as a legal officer.

[Nyasa Times] Government is closing down Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe as Covid-19 field hospital.

[Nyasa Times] The much-awaited motion on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill was rejected by members of parliament on Thursday from being tabled in the House and it was removed from the revised Order Paper, an outline of business to be tackled in Parli...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Blantyre -- The abortion bill has met strong opposition from church groups in the mainly Christian country

[Nyasa Times] As the 30th March 2021 by-election draws closer, two candidates in Nsanje district have pulled out of the race.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka has fired two regional party officials for the south over the party's property rental money.

[Nyasa Times] Deputy Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Abida Mia on Friday visited Staff Development Institute (SDI) at Mpemba in Blantyre to follow up on reports that the land meant for the college expansion had been dubiously sold to...

[Nyasa Times] The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership has agreed to bar the party's vice president for the South Kondwani Nankhumwa from conducting meetings anywhere in the country for refusing to apologise after the party leadership asked ...

[Nyasa Times] The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services has warned of persistent rains in the central and northern regions of Malawi which may result in flash floods.

[Nyasa Times] President Lazarus Chakwera launched the long-awaited coronavirus vaccine campaign on Thursday in Zomba and was among the first to be inoculated with a call for Malawians to quickly get immunized.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Parliament has passed the revised K2.3 trillion national budget after a brief showdown between government and opposition legislators over Local government vote.

[Nyasa Times] Former president Peter Mutharika and the embattled former secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Lloyd Muhara will be in court Friday for legal costs case.

[Nyasa Times] Finance minister Felix Mlusu has backed the decision to increase State Residences budget, saying they need massive rehabilitation.

[Nyasa Times] Effective Thursday (March 11, 2021), Airtel Malawi Plc has introduced a new 'Kugulula' voice calling rate, which will enable Airtel Malawi prepaid customers to call any network at any time at a guaranteed flat rate of only K30 per minut...

[Nyasa Times] State Vice President Saulos Chilima received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Muzu on Thursday as part of a growing effort to convince the public that inoculations are safe.

[Nyasa Times] President Lazarus Chakwera's act of goodwill to be the first person to take Covid-19 vaccine jab is a great art of symbolism and bravery tenet of great leadership.

[Nyasa Times] A farm land investor has won a fierce court battle with locals who invaded his 166 hectare of land in Lilongwe.

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi National Examinations Board ( MANEB) has extended the registration of candidates and payment of examination fees for 2021 Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education ( PSLCE), Junior Certificate of Education( JCE) and Mal...

[Nyasa Times] In a last ditch attempt to wipe out cases of child marriages and property grabbing in Ntchisi district, NGO Gender Coordination Network (NGOGCN) has facilitated the formation of Ntchisi Women's Movement to challenge patriarchal cultural...

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi Parliamentary Health Committee says it will present and move a motion of the Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) bill on Thursday, March 11 2021 in the Parliament which will also be presented as a Private Member's Bill respectivel...

[IPS] Blantyre, Malawi -- After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi's Southern Region decided to venture into agribusiness.

[Nyasa Times] A court in Blantyre has adjourned to March 17, 2021, a case in which a mother and her daughter are accused of assaulting a nurse in a hospital ward after they were told to leave the ward to decongest it as part of covid-19 preventive me...

[Nyasa Times] Nico Pensions Services Limited has swiftly responded to the call to assist needy students at Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Thyolo with ICT gadgets to help in e-learning in the wake of covid-19 infection.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi's President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera is in many ways like Spanish International football star and Liverpool's marque signing central midfield maestro, Thiago Alcantara.

[Nyasa Times] Former Tigers FC players led by Fundi Akidu are doing all they can to get assistance from well-wishers to help former coach Alex Masanjala who is ill.

[Nyasa Times] Major political parties have put their political differences aside to urge all their supporters go for Covid-19 vaccine.

[Nyasa Times] Rights activists are demanding that authorities immediately release a report on the alleged abuse of K6.2 billion Covid-19 money.