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February 11 2020 W hat started as a simple citizen demand to the Department of Disaster Management (Dodma) to make...

Our indefatigable leader of delegation, Madame Professor Dr Joyce Befu, MEGA-1, has directed that we do two things today. And...

There is no doubt that the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are being felt by both the young and the...

As Malawi awaits the arrival of  Covid-19 vaccine, the daunting task for government and its partners is how to ensure...

O n January 31, Weekend Nation published an undercover investigative article exposing the illegal and corrupt trade in charcoal, which...

Barking up wrong tree while watching Chakwera pile new ruble on the old People are right to be cynical. Malawi—being...

Malawi needs a strong opposition to provide necessary checks and balances to government. But so far, it does not look...

February 4 2020 Oh! How time flies! It seems like yesterday when some Malawians crammed the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe...

Hon. Folks, this week marked one year since the Constitutional Court terminated Peter Mutharika’s mandate to govern the country for...

Let me say from the word go that I am writing this fully aware that I might lose friends and...

Youths constitute a larger proportion of the population of Malawi. Although that is the case, they face a lot of...

In the race for the heart, soul and presidency of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) there is only one hopeful...

Your Excellency, President Vladimir Putin.  Your Excellency, President Xi Xiping.  We know it is not common for you to get...

Irony is a horrible sharp double-edged sword – Janet Karim, 2021 In the super information highway where the Internet, cell...

There is very little that one can achieve without positive thinking, positive energy. Negative energy is poisonous and derails progress...

Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu has apparently found himself in the same situation as several of his predecessors in as...

I took part in a panel at the annual Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) conference last week. The topic...

The second wave of Covid-19 has exerted unprecedented pressure on Malawi’s healthcare system and economy. While the world thought the...

Diseases have plagued the world since time immemorial. The history of pandemics is as old as human civilisation itself. Gone...

My boyhood friend called Lackson once got sick. He had a stomachache. When he visited a medical facility, the officer...