At least 49 people have died while 182 others have been hospitalised following suspected alcohol poisoning in Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria. Ondo State Health Commissioner Banji Ajaka said the outbreak was first reported on September 5 after 29 people died within a week of consuming suspected contaminated locally brewed alcohol. Authorities suspect the deaths may…
President Peter Mutharika has assigned Foreign Affairs Minister George Chaponda to represent Malawi at the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States due from 22nd to 28th of this month
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has warned the public against using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital tools to create and spread false or manipulated information.
Four people suspected of abducting British citizen Nasrat Osman have been fatally shot in Blantyre following a firefight with law enforcement officers.
About 5,400 people die every year in Malawi due to tobacco smoking, advocate Drug Fight Malawi has said.
British national Nasrat Osman, who was abducted in Mount Pleasant, Blantyre last Friday, has been found safe and is back home.
A 27-year-old individual named Chisomo Andrew has been arrested at Luchenza in Thyolo, following allegations of sexual abuse involving a four-year-old child at a graveyard.
The number of young people visiting Dzindevu Hospital in Dedza seeking condoms has reportedly increased by 70 percent in the past three weeks. The Director of Dzindevu Hospital, Innocent Mponya, says that the increase was due to the upcoming virginity festival in the area. He said 633 young people visited the clinic to receive the…
Over a hundred students enrolled at the Malawi College of Accountancy (MCA) have obtained a court injunction preventing the institution from prohibiting them from sitting their end-of-semester examinations, despite having already paid the examination fees.
Parliament’s Ad-hoc Committee investigating the June 10, 2024 military plane crash that killed Vice-President Saulos Chilima and eight others yesterday heard extraordinary testimony from a Lilongwe resident who claims he saw Chilima standing at the door of the aircraft mid-air, calling for help.
