On a cold Thursday evening in May 2026, screams pierced the darkness along the winding Chiradzulu–Phalombe Road. At Chamdimbo Mwanje Turn-off, a Hino five-tonne lorry carrying passengers instead of goods lost control while descending a slope. Moments later, seven lives were gone.
When darkness falls in parts of Malawi today, the cause is not always a fault in the system or a shortage of power generation capacity. Increasingly, it is the work of vandals.
From the dusty trading centers of Thyolo to the forests of Phalombe, from water treatment plants in Lilongwe to transformers in Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Zomba, and Blantyre, Malawi’s electricity infrastructure is under sustained attack by criminals targeting aluminium conductors, copper wires, transformers and other critical components for resale and recycling.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on China-U.S. Summit and Common Understanding.
The Thyolo–Thekerani–Bangula and Chitakale–Phalombe–Zomba roads have become killing fields, with taxi drivers prioritizing profits over passenger safety. Overloaded taxis carrying up to 20 passengers are now a common sight, despite the obvious risks.
As the Public Accounts Committee of parliament has resumed it's inquiry into the purchase of Amaryllis hotel by the Public Service Pension Trust Fund ( PSPTF) Former registrar of financial institutions Dr Mafuta Mwale says the controversial Amaryllis Hotel transaction went ahead despite strong objections and warnings from the financial regulator.
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