[MBC] While the world is still struggling with the economic effects of Covid 19, rural farmers are also hit by the pandemic.

[Nyasa Times] In what looks like an encrypted and encoded message, the Director General of the country's graft bursting body, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and legal bulldozzer, Martha Chizuma who disappeared into oblivion is now back and has unequivo...

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has backed Harry Mlekanjala Mkandawire's endorsement of President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera for the 2025 presidential elections.

[MBC] Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has admitted it is struggling to supply colourless and odourless water to consumers following what it terms as organic matter deposits and silt in Mudi Dam, which they say have accumulated due to Tropical Storm Ana.

[Nyasa Times] World Vision Malawi has distributed assorted relief items worth over K3.6 million to 90 households affected by Tropical Storm Ana at Chilenje Area Development Programme in Lilongwe.

[MBC] Geneva -- President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has called on Malawians in the diaspora to help fellow countrymen who have been affected by tropical storms.

[Nyasa Times] Economic expert Milward Tobias has hailed government for scrapping off Value Added Tax (VAT) on water and cooking oil in the 2022/2023 national budget.

[Nyasa Times] Government has officially declared 3rd March as National Martyrs Day.

[MBC] Geneva -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is to give Malawi one million dollars (K803.7 million) towards the health of communities affected by floods in Malawi.

[Nyasa Times] There are fears many people have died after a boat carrying Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) staff and officers from Marine Department of the Malawi Police Services capsized in Chikwawa on the Shire River.

[Nyasa Times] The Roads Authority promises that the cut off M005 Road between Salima and Golomoti will be opened by end of Friday as a contractor is already on site reinstating Lifidzi Bridge, whose approach was washed away by heavy flow of rain wate...

[Nyasa Times] Officials from Ministry of Water and Sanitation say many districts in the south are today, Friday expected to will experience a rise in rainfall intensity as a result of tropical storm, Dumako.

[Nyasa Times] Another day, another big blow to Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa as another shadow cabinet minister has resigned from the shadow cabinet.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- The U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, is assisting Malawi's students to continue their education in areas affected by a recent tropical storm.

[Nyasa Times] Minister of Local Government, Professor Blessings Chinsinga, on Thursday inducted newly elected mayors and deputy mayors with an advice to the inductees to aim for good legacy, stressing that this is fundamental in the progression of th...

[Nyasa Times] A deeply religious couple in Neno will have to spend two years and six in jail for denying their children access to medical care due to religious beliefs which led to the death of the children.

[Nyasa Times] The National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Trust in Mangochi has started offering three-month free computer lessons in cohort number 10, with a call for more people to register and attend the free classes.

[Nyasa Times] A traffic police officer has been hit while on duty by a speeding vehicle in Mangochi on Thursday.

[Nyasa Times] A legislator who has received stinging attacks on social media platforms for suggesting that Parliament buys raincoats for backbenchers has emphatically apologised.

[Nyasa Times] The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (DCCMS) has warned that Tropical Cyclone Dumako will hit some parts of the Southern Region in Malawi between today and tomorrow.

[Nyasa Times] Castel Malawi has announced that the French company has sold off Malawi's historical company, Southern Bottlers Limited (SOBO) to Coca-Cola Beverages Limited, which a subsidiary to Coca-Cola Beverages Africa.

[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Lilongwe -- The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more th...

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Health authorities in Malawi say a 3-year-old girl is paralyzed after contracting polio, the first known case in Africa in more than five years and the first in Malawi in three decades. Authorities say the child was infected...

[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- On 17 February 2022, the Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Health reported one confirmed case of Poliomyelitis in the country. The Government of Malawi has declared this outbreak as a Public Health Em...

[DW] The first case of wild polio to be reported in Africa in five years has been confirmed in Malawi. Africa was declared polio-free in August 2020.

[Nyasa Times] Under the terms of Section 99 of the Legal Education and Legal Practitioners Act of 2017, Malawi Law Society has suspended two lawyers on disciplinary grounds acted on their clients.

[Nyasa Times] The Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jacob Hara, has warned that his ministry will soon start taking to court contractors who produce substandard work on the roads of Malawi.

[VOA] Dowa District, Malawi -- The U.N. World Food Program in Malawi has halted food rations to nearly 700 refugee families, saying the families were "self-sustaining." But many of the de-listed refugees say they rely on the monthly rations and argue...

[Nyasa Times] Immigration authorities say to 200 illegal immigrants are being detained in the central region pending deportation.

[Nyasa Times] Police fired tear-gas to disperse rioting learners as classes were temporarily suspended on Friday at a primary school in Blantyre after a teacher allegedly dropped a talisman (chithumwa).