Government has called for stronger collaboration and investment in youth-led community projects as a way of accelerating economic growth and sustainable development across Malawi.
The Office of the Attorney General has withdrawn its appeal against a May 2025 High Court ruling that declared the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and Water Resource Fund guidelines unconstitutional.
Until she got to the age of 14, Memory Zakaliya was a puzzle in her village.
She was perpetually sick.
Her father, Zakaliya Chiputu, actually lost all hope that Memory would survive.
Children are a natural source of joy. Joy for no reason. Just joy.
Parents envision their babies grow into normal adults. But did you know?
There are cases of children who grow features of adulthood before age 9. Girls as young as eight growing breasts, menstruating.
Boys as young as nine growing body hairs and abilities for fatherhood.
Such cases are now being identified among children in Malawi.
Every year in Malawi, three billion Kwacha is lost in vandalism of Escom equipment.
And that loss comes with disruption of essential social services such as hospitals, every day businesses and water supply. Vandalism of Escom equipment targets transformers and cables, often copper, resulting in chronic power outages that stop these essential services.
In this report, Eamon Piringu discusses how destruction of Escom infrastructure is choking the economic development of Malawi and national efforts to expand access to electricity in a country where close to 75 percent of the population is yet to have access to the public power grid.
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