Education authorities in Thyolo have conceded that shortage of classroom blocks and desks is affecting education standards and performance in the district.

Social welfare and court authorities in Thyolo have recorded a surge in divorce cases with 86 captured in three months from April to June this year.

Member of Parliament for Thyolo South, Mabvuto Sandram Scott, has asked the Agricultural Development Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) to swiftly start selling maize, claiming people are dying of hunger-related diseases in his area.

Two learners of the same family have been hit by a speeding vehicle yesterday morning at Bvumbwe in Thyolo and one has dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre.

A 51-year old Robert Yobe has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment with hard labor (IHL) in Thyolo for defiling a 2-year-old girl.

Community leaders in Thekerani - Thyolo have asked the government to supply clean banana suckers to restore the banana farming which was hit by the diseases some three decades ago.

Two people have died with 13 others injured in Thyolo after a vehicle which they were traveling in involved in an accident.

A 22-year-old man Ndaona Malata has been fined K600, 000 in Thyolo for causing death by reckless driving and driving without license.

Stormy rains have destroyed at least 21 primary schools and one secondary school in Thyolo since October when the district received its first rains.

Thyolo district has registered first death of COVID-19 on Tuesday.