A child rights activist, Memory Ngosi Chisenga, says it is high time stakeholders equipped girls in Gender Based Violence (GBV) hotspots with defensive skills to be able to protect themselves from abusers in solitary spaces.

Four children have reportedly drowned in a flooded Chimvu river in Thyolo as they were crossing from school on Wednesday afternoon.

Police in Thyolo have engaged a pathologist, Dr. Charles Dzamalala, to conduct further investigations on the body of a Standard 8 learner who was raped and strangled to death on Tuesday.

The National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) says maintenance works for the 12-year malfunctioning Luchenza and Mzuzu metallic silos are almost complete.

Police in Thyolo have disclosed that a 12-year-old school girl who went missing on Monday was raped before her assailants strangled her to death.

Finance minister, Sosten Gwengwe says government is yet to commit on whether to observe this year's duty free week or not.

A primary school headteacher at Mwitere in Thyolo has died of cholera, Wednesday, health authorities have confirmed.

The Malawi Police Service (MPS) has launched an investigation to track the author of a 'fake letter' purporting the resignation of state vice president Saulos Chilima.

Minister of agriculture, Sam Kawale, says they are receiving overwhelming response from parliamentarians to help in dispatching Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) fertiliser from the warehouses to the beneficiaries.

Agriculture authorities in Thyolo say the fall armyworms have attacked 7, 950 hectares of crops in the district.