An agriculture expert says Malawi cannot achieve food security with this year's Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) amid an outcry that in some villages the beneficiary's list has been trimmed three times.

Police in Thyolo have arrested 29-year old Joseph Mwambene, assistant manager at Goliati Agora depot, following an alleged day-light robbery of K750, 000.

Scores of people in rural areas of Thyolo are drinking water from unprotected sources due to government's delays in rehabilitating three gravity-fed water systems and boreholes damaged by cyclone Freddy eight months ago.

South East Police region has on Wednesday presented prizes to the winners of the Commissioner's trophy.

The Pan African Civic Educator Network (PACENET) is concerned with the delays to complete the 22, 000 seat Thyolo stadium, owing to government's funding inconsistencies.

Authorities in Thyolo have called on the non-state actors to introduce value for money and flagship projects which can bring total transformation to the lives of people.

Some motorists in Thyolo are continuing parking along the roads, six days after Thyolo district council opened a new bus depot at the flea market.

Thyolo district council says it will soon engage chiefs and political leadership towards opening of a K400 million new Goliati market, four months after vendors objected the move arguing it's incomplete.

The Midima First Grade Magistrate court has on Wednesday sentenced Kennedy Nanjiwa, 58, to 10 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a minor.

Police at Bvumbwe in Thyolo have on Wednesday arrested a 49-year-old man, Pierson Chibade, for allegedly defiling a 7-year-old girl.