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.
Malawi is at the crossroads of human trafficking. It is both a source country, where citizens are lured abroad under false promises, and a transit route for traffickers moving victims southward.
The crisis is underscored by Malawians still trapped in Oman awaiting repatriation, and by the recent conviction in South Africa of Chinese nationals who trafficked 91 Malawians, 37 of them children, at Beautiful City Factory in Johannesburg.
Government officials admit that funding to support survivors is inadequate, limiting protection and repatriation efforts.
What should be done to end the vicious circle in which between 300 and 1,500 individuals are said to be trafficked within or from Malawi annually?
In Mangazi Village, Traditional Authority Chimaliro in Thyolo, what began as a routine evening meal ended in a devastating inferno.
“The incident occurred when the fire broke out while the victims were cooking supper using a charcoal burner in the house of a 32-year-old Joyce Maganga who was allegedly keeping illegal fuel stock in jerrycans,” said Thyolo Police Spokesperson, Rabecca Kashoti.
At 66, Esinati Mailosi from Thyolo still remembers the moment her world was shattered not with a loud bang, but with whispers. It was at a funeral.
In 2025, a relative died after a short illness. As mourners gathered in Samuti Village in the area of Senior Chief Boyidi, the atmosphere was heavy, not just with grief, but with suspicion.
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