Agriculture experts, Ronald Chilumpha and Horace Phiri have encouraged President Lazarus Chakwera to continue conducting crop inspections as they signify leadership focus and motivate farmers including extension workers.

A Thyolo-based organisation, Change 4Us, has embarked on a baseline project to guage youth participation in development structures.

A security analyst, Aubrey Kabisala is suggesting that security apparatus should check the availability of firearms in the country which criminals are using to attack the citizenry.

Limbe First Grade Magistrate, Soka Banda has sentenced a 30-year-old, Edward Msendawana to 14 years imprisonment for robbing a dairy farmer about K6.8 million at gunpoint at Bvumbwe in Thyolo.

Police in Thyolo are hunting for unknown armed criminals who have robbed two businessmen of K4 million in separate incidents.

A postmortem conducted at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES) in Blantyre has revealed that a Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) student, Michael Mapanje died of severe loss of blood (haemorrhages) due to head injuries following a fall from upstairs on campus.

All the 650 prospective beneficiaries of this year's Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) in Group Village Headman (GVH) Mkawera in Thyolo are yet to have their Identity Cards scanned and none has accessed a bag of fertilizer since the onset of the programme.

A Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) second year student, Michael Mapanje, has died after falling from a second floor of one of the buildings on campus.

Limbe Senior Resident Magistrate, Byson Masonga, has sentenced four men to seven years imprisonment for torching Bvumbwe Police Sub-station in Thyolo in January last year.

At least 74 hunger-stricken families in two villages of Loti and Mkwata in the area of Senior chief Mphuka claim are yet to receive maize under the government's lean season intervention, a  week after they were told to wait when others were receiving the items at Mkhathe.