[Daily Maverick] A series of four articles examines issues of policy, laws, rights, culture, popular culture, language, stigma, crimes, discrimination and individual experiences of the queer community in four African countries.

[Nyasa Times] The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Minister of Lands & Urban Development, Kezzie Msukwa and Ashok Kumar Sreedharan in relation to corruption and bribery investigation by the Bureau.

[MBC] Men Engage Alliance a male movement advocating for women and girls rights are meeting in Mponela for a 3-day AGM.

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) has bemoaned over continued resistance by Malawians to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

[Nyasa Times] Over 30 journalists converged in Salima from December 19-24, 2021, for an intensive gender and youth reporting training workshop.

[Nyasa Times] The Flames friendly match against Mali, which was scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed due to the late arrival of Mali in Saudi Arabia.

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi Defence Force has disclosed that it will come up with a new regulation for athletes joining the military teams to sign a five-year bond to maintain high level performance after being employed as servicemen and women.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi's Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima and opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Presidential aspirant Dr. Dalitso Kabambe have paid tribute to former first lady Annie Muluzi who died in Kenya on Tuesday.

[Nyasa Times] The Ministry of Health has recorded a total of 1,050 babies that were born on Christmas Day this year in different hospitals in different districts across the country.

[Nyasa Times] The World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged faith leaders in Malawi to assume a leading role in the promotion of health awareness in their respective churches as one of creating a healthier lifestyle amongst young people.

[Nyasa Times] Young people who are working towards fixing some impassable areas on Rumphi-Hewe road in Rumphi district have implored first lady, Monica Chakwera, to consider intervening in their cause.

[Nyasa Times] The country's football powerhouse, Nyasa Big Bullets has secured 13 hectares of land in Mpemba, Blantyre where the club is expected to construct its football facilities.

[Nyasa Times] A grouping calling itself 'Voice of the North' is demanding that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) must increase the number of constituencies in the northern region from thirty-seven as per its recent demarcation exercise to a minim...

[Nyasa Times] Disagreement has erupted between Karonga residents and Northern Region Water Board (NRWD) over the "impromptu" decision to relocate the multi-billion kwacha Garnet Halliday Water Plant that was initiated by Paladin Africa Limited in 201...

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi Prison Inspectorate has decried the speed at which prison reforms are implemented which results in increased abuse of prisoners' rights.

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi Magistrate Court in Blantyre has ordered Abdi Rahman Dubat who is a Kenyan National to leave the country within 14 days after being convicted for Illegal Stay, contrary to Section 34(a) of the Immigration Act.

[Nyasa Times] There is nothing unconstitutional about asking people to be vaccinated as the Republican constitution only bars forced medical experiments or trials and not vaccinations, the government's chief legal advisor has said.

[Nyasa Times] Global Communications Specialist and Senior Vice President at Philip Morris International (PMI), Marian Salzman, has disclosed that, as of October 2021, only six billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered and almost half ...

[Nyasa Times] Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda SC -- whom the Democratic Progressive Party-led government wanted to send on forced retirement in 2020 after the infamous ruling of the Constitutional Court that nullified the 2019 presidential election and...

[Nyasa Times] Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe has said government will make sure that farmers will definitely have a bumper harvest this year just like last season regardless of the growing season facing two challenges being poor rains and catastroph...

[Nyasa Times] A recent study by Tobacco Research Network has established that evidence-based Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) programmes are effective in reducing illness and saving lives and that, when properly managed, they greatly improve public healt...

[Nyasa Times] Rainbow Paints Netball League matches for the heavyweights are set to resume from Monday to Tuesday (December 27-28 2021) after taking a three weeks break, Blantyre and Districts Netball League Committee (BDNLC) has confirmed.

[RFI] Concerns about the state of Malawi's Mudi River, a domestic water source which passes through Blantyre, the country's commercial hub, had fallen on deaf ears. Pollution from the industries which discharge waste into the river and sewage from th...

[VOA] The U.S. will lift travel restrictions to eight southern African countries on New Year's Eve, the White House announced Friday.

[Nyasa Times] In what could be loosely interpreted as rubble clearing, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has ordered all District Commissioners (DCs) and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of city and municipal councils to re-submit...

[Nyasa Times] Press Corporation Plc - one of the country's Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE)-listed companies - says it is expecting that its 2021 profit after tax will be higher than the previous corresponding period by 50 percent.

[Nyasa Times] At a time the debate over legalisation of safe abortion has become swept under the carpet in Malawi, it has emerged that some girls, in pursuit of terminating their unwanted pregnancies, are using life-threatening ways in Mzuzu.

[Nyasa Times] Football Association of Malawi added colour and pomp to the Flames for their third Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) when they dressed the players in decent three-piece suits when as they left at Chileka Airport in Blantyre for the games en...

[Nyasa Times] The National Statistical Office (NSO) has said data is critical for informed decision making and planning for the county's population and development.

[Nyasa Times] Political and economic analysts say Malawians should momentarily remove their political jackets and work together to help provide solutions in order to make the newly announced Social Economic Recovery Plan (SERP) bring about the much n...