Sticky single-use plastics
From thin carrier bags dancing to whistling winds in open markets to many more in the hands of shoppers heading...
Covid-19 shouldn’t kill democracy—Kachale
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Chifundo Kachale has told election managers in southern African nations scheduled to hold polls to...
Energy for New Malawi
Access to energy improves livelihoods and incomes, but only 12 percent of Malawians have access to electricity. The gap is...
Keeping runaway police in check
Police reforms have another chance to go beyond change of name for the benefit of Malawians frustrated by men and...
‘MBC needs real change’
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has made a predictable turn, halting praise and worshipping of defeated President Peter Mutharika’s regime in...
Hunted and shunned
A Malawian with albinism demystifies discrimination faced by Malawians whose identity or expression differs from the sex assigned at birth,...
Down with Covid, but…
On June 30, Felix Chisoni returned to Police Secondary School in Zomba to paint decaying school blocks where he learnt...
Secrecy over party funders
Lately, Malawians irked by arrogant political elites have been utterly thrilled by new President Lazarus Chakwera’s oratory on transparency and...
Irish envoy backs LGBTI rights movement
Irish Ambassador Gerry Cunningham has challenged minority rights campaigners in Malawi to learn from their African counterparts' strides to get...
Learning amid Covid-19
Emily Leston was devastated when coronavirus disrupted learning on March 31. "Every day, children ask me why they aren’t going...
Who will police captured police?
The new broom in charge of the police system faces a tough task to tidy up the security agency only...
Daddy’s son on the wane
Atupele Muluzi faces a backlash from Malawians who wish he stoically accepted defeat and moved on to resuscitate his wilting...
Soldiers’ epic march on impunity
It takes a strong institution to protect citizens marching against their rulers. The assignment can be tougher for security agencies...
Mutharika’s sticky shift to Mangochi
On Saturday night, Justice Chifundo Kachale confirmed the fall of Peter Mutharika’s regime that only 38 percent of voters still...
Activists celebrate electoral justice
It’s a sunny Saturday morning in Blantyre City ahead of the announcement of the dramatic fall of Peter Mutharika’s regime....
Chakwera’s steep walk to promised land
On April 14 2013, a 59-year-old pastor, who hums hymns while bathing and whistles in bed, left a church he...
Covid-phobic deputy minister orders returnees out of Domasi College
Deputy Minister of Gender Grace Kwelepeta has hit out at government for hosting returnees from South Africa at Domasi College...
who polices courts of law?
Three years after rebuking Parliament as not being accountable to Malawians while holding everyone to account, President Peter Mutharika has...
Clean cooking for tidy markets
Not all that stinks is garbage. Your waste could be an innovator’s raw material or goldmine. At Tsangano Market in...
Is Malawi set for polls?
The High Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court, on February 3 ruled the May 21 2019 presidential elections were irregular...
