Unidentified woman has been killed while 13 others have sustained various degrees of injuries following a road accident along the Thyolo-Thekerani-Bangula road Monday morning.

Thyolo Senior Resident magistrate's court has sentenced Mayeso Mission aged 26 and John Nepiyala 26, to six years imprisonment while Medison Michael 28, to eight years for vandalising transformers belonging to the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) in the district. 

The first grade magistrate’s court in thyolo has senetenced a 44-year old part-time teacher, Mike Soko Chikosa, to 14 years imprisonment with hard labor (IHL) for defiling an eight-year-old learner.

A 42-year-old tailor in Thyolo, Humphrey Tebulo has been ordered to spend 42 years in prison for defiling two girls at Chaoneka village in the area of Traditional Authority Khwethemule after it was established that, he enticed them with pieces of cloth and a K100.

Luchenza Municipality Mayor Sayze Simeji says his council has set aside K4 million to replace the faulty street lights with a solar system to do away with electricity costs to manage streets lighting.

Government says it is on track in implementing the Decade of Action UN Global Plan on Road Safety, quashing claims by some road safety stakeholders that little has been done, a year after they presented the plan to government.

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) believes the High Value Alert System which was launched in 2018 has helped the country to prevent siphoning of public funds by the authorities.

Thyolo district health authorities have admitted that cholera is spreading rapidly needing a swift response to contain it.

Police in Thyolo have arrested 35 people for allegedly encroaching Zoa Tea Estate.

The Ministry of Education has urged the stakeholders calling for the inclusion of manufacturing and entrepreneurial lessons into the country’s curriculum under review to firstly understand it; arguing they are already embedded.