Category: Business

Mayor of Blantyre, Isaac Jomo Osman, says the Blantyre City Council has closed offices of the Malawi Housing Corporation because the corporation owes the council money.

More than 200 people, including 70 children, have been killed after a landslide caused a collapse in a mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government says.

The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority has announced a 19.65% increase in the price of cooking gas.

The number of people killed in an attack in South Sudan on Sunday when a group of unidentified men launched an assault in the north of the country has risen to 178, a local official has told the BBC.

A United States citizen has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing two teenage girls while working at the US embassy in Burkina Faso.

At least 55 Ghanaians have been killed fighting in the war in Ukraine, with two others currently held as prisoners of war, Ghana’s foreign affairs minister says. On a trip to Kyiv, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said that about 272 Ghanaians are believed to have been lured into the conflict since 2022, citing Ukrainian authorities. Ablakwa…

Caroline Chipapi, the Headteacher of Ching’ambo Primary School, has passed away while en route to Katoto Secondary School for a headcount exercise currently taking place in the country.

Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Charles Mhango has declared that the government will initiate a new investigation into the Chikangawa military plane crash, which resulted in the deaths of former Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and eight others in June 2024.

A South African man named in a major police corruption probe has died after reportedly shooting himself at a petrol station.

Police are now investigating the death of Wiandre Pretorius, 41, who last week said he had survived an assassination attempt.

Dozens of worshippers kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state have returned home weeks after their abduction, police have confirmed.