Are Malawians Sleep-Walking into a Surveillance State?
n the last three years, the Malawi government has passed a lot of legislation, among these, is the National Registration...
n the last three years, the Malawi government has passed a lot of legislation, among these, is the National Registration...
There have been muted discussions and calls within media circles, notably by the Media Institute for Southern Africa (Misa Malawi)...
The days when people believed that pictures do not lie are long gone. We are now in the age of...
I read with interest a comment by Malawi Electoral Commission’s (MEC) Chairperson, Justice Jane Ansah that the commission is not going...
This article is the third and last in a three-part series focusing on digital rights, access to the Internet, and...
This article is second in three-part series focusing on digital rights, access to the Internet, and Internet affordability in Malawi....
Twenty-two years after the establishment of the country’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), the country lags behind its regional neighbours...
2019 has hardly taken any shape, yet there has already been a succession of Internet shutdowns across Africa. These shutdowns...
22 years after the establishment of the country’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), the country lags behind its regional neighbours...
Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima has recently spoken about corruption in the country putting the lives of people at risk. He...
In telecommunication, regulations are meant to correct market failures in order to protect and promote interests of consumers and citizens....
Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net, 2017 report shows that 2017 was, as Wire.com puts it, a “terrible year for...
This September marks three years since the high-level corruption scandal in which $31 million stolen from government coffers began...
Malawi leaders are very good at finding quick fixes to complicated problems, akin to bandaging boils instead of bursting and...
The question of whether social media should be regulated is steadily getting traction on the continent as well...
French political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, noticed that as much as democratic leadership is determined by people, ideally majority,...
It seems like in Malawi we have found a solution to government’s perennial failures in running public services: privatise everything....
One famous Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov once said: “I am a passionate supporter of freedom, and I...
In July 2013, Malawi’s then minister responsible for mining, John Bande told The Nation newspaper that Malawi government was engaging...
In 2007, the Malawi government licensed the Australian and Canadian registered mining company Paladin Africa Limited to open Malawi’s first...