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Stakeholders agree to enhance collaboration to address challenges facing women
Council officials and stakeholders in Nkhotakota district have agreed to improve coordination and information sharing to effectively address problems affecting women and girls in the district. Speaking on Tuesday after a dialogue between sector heads and Civil Society Organizations meant to di...
Breaking the Silence: One Woman’s Struggle and Hope After Forced Abortion
All of the 24 years she lived as a girl ended when she was impregnated by her older boyfriend. Shakida (not her real name), from Lunda Village in Traditional Authority Lunda in Salima District, was forced into an abortion by her boyfriend in 2023. “I was told to consume drugs to terminate t...
Government eyes 41 million tree seedlings in the 2025/2026 National Forestry Season
The Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, through the Department of Forestry (DoF), says the 2025/2026 National Forestry Season will start on 15th December to 15th April next year. A letter signed by Secretary for Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Richard Perekamoyo, says the ...
Women with disabilities demand equal access to SRHR services
Victoria Supuliyano, a teacher at Chilanga School for the Blind in the area of Senior Chief Kaomba, in Kasungu district recalls how negative attitudes from health workers affected her. During one antenatal visit in 2023 a nurse remarked, “even you got pregnant,” as if pregnancy were impossibl...
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WOMEN BATTLING ILLEGAL GOLD MINES WITH POWER
The early hours of 1st October 2025 are still haunting mining communities in Kasungu district after eight miners including boys aged 13 and 16 were trapped and killed due to a tunnel that collapsed at Kasalika gold mine. Barely some two weeks after the incident, another tragedy occurred at Chi...
Poor financial flow hits security agencies' houses construction project
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Jappie Mhango said poor financial flow has delayed the construction and completion of 10,000 houses for security personnel in the country. Immediate former President, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera launched the construction of the 10,000 houses project i...
Informal sector defies labor laws, hundreds trapped in labor exploitation
An inquiry conducted in the Lakeshore district of Nkhotakota shows that many employees in small businesses (informal sector) continue to earn below the statutory minimum wage of 105 thousand kwacha per month as per newly gazette minimum wage which came into effect on 1st June, 2025, leaving them ...
Thirty Years After Beijing: Why Digital Spaces Remain Unsafe for Malawi’s Women and Girls
Nearly thirty years after the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, Malawi is facing a new wave of abuse against women and girls not on the streets or in workplaces, but online. As social media becomes deeply woven into daily life, women and girls are increasingly exposed to cyber bullying, bod...
Restoring dignity: Nkhotakota opens first fistula ward for women
Nkhotakota District Hospital, located at the Boma of Malawi’s lakeshore district of Nkhotakota, serves more than 20,000 people referred from government health centers and mission hospitals across the district. Inside the hospital, there is a special waiting area, locally known as “Kodikilira”,...
NCD Alliance Malawi commend the endorsement of global charter as a game changer
The Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Alliance Malawi has described the endorsement of the Global Charter on NCDs as a game changer, saying it will transform approaches to advocacy and implementation in the fight against non-communicable diseases. Speaking in Lilongwe on Thursday during an eng...
It is false that Former HRDC Chairperson, now AFORD Vice President Timothy Mtambo is planning for the anti-government protests
ᴄʟᴀɪᴍ A Facebook post by the Africans Magazine, Malawi Voice and Ticheze Media among many pages are alleging that Timothy Mtambo, a former Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) Chairperson, currently serving as Vice President for the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) plans to return to HRDC and h...
Nkhotakota District council plans to crackdown roadside illegal vending
Nkhotakota district council has announced plans to crack down on roadside vendors at Nkhotakota boma, aiming to enforce market regulations and improve trading standards. Public Relations Officer for Nkhotakota district council Wongani Mkandawire notes that the council recognizes the rise in un...
EU, backs renewable energy expansion power to Malawi's economic growth
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Malawi, Daniel Aristi-Gaztelumendi, expressed EU’s commitment to advancing renewable energy in the country, particularly through the Energizing Development (EnDev) project, which aims to strengthen the market for climate-friendly technologies such as solar so...
Over 25,000 to receive lean season support in Nkhotakota District
The Nkhotakota District Agriculture Office says almost 25,000 heavily affected families will benefit from the 2025\2026 Lean Season Food Insecurity Response Program [LS-FIRP]. The District’s Director of Agriculture Services, Denis Emmaunel Zingeni said the programme demonstrates governments’ c...
ECAMA commends MPC decision to maintain policy rate
The Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA) has commended the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)’s decision to maintain the policy rate which is currently at 26%, citing persistently high inflation and ongoing risks, including food shortages. Speaking on Monday during the fourth 2025 Monetary P...
Beyond the ballot
It was a hot afternoon in Nkhotakota Central Constituency at Chigumula Ground when Susan Namangale stood before a crowd of people, speaking with confidence and hope. As the founder of Dadaz Chess Academy and Former President of the Chess Association of Malawi, Namangale is known for promoting ...
Making Malawi’s Music Scene Safe for Women
In Malawi’s music scene, women are creating beats, breaking records and inspiring audiences but online abuse threatens to silence their voices. From Cyberbullying and body shaming to threats and defamation, female artists face attacks that target their identity rather than their talent. Y...
MHRC, partners all for inclusive digital Access to Information
The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), in collaboration with the Media Council of Malawi (MCM) and the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), says there is a need to tackle challenges limiting access to information by promoting inclusivity in the use of digital technologies. Th...
INUA Advocacy, stakeholders monitor review of Refugees Act of 1989
INUA Advocacy, a refugees’ rights defender, has expressed optimism that stakeholders, including the National Assembly, will endorse key priority areas in the Refugees Act 1989, currently under review. The Public Relations Officer, Brenda Twea says the organization, together with other stakehol...
Umunthu FM joins stakeholders in celebrating the international safe abortion day
Umunthu FM joins the rest of the world in commemorating the international safe Abortion day. This year's commemoration is taking place at Chisoti school ground in Nkhotakota District under the theme "In Solidarity, working towards Reduction of Death from Unsafe Abortion in Malawi". Under...