Police in Mangochi district have arrested a 35-year-old woman on allegations that she was posing herself as a Malawi Defense Force soldier based at the Maritime base in Monkey-Bay.

Families of some soldiers who died in a road accident involving a presidential convoy and one surviving soldier have written the Attorney General a notice of intention to sue the government for failing to compensate them, almost a year after the two officers died, and several others injured in Blantyre.

A 17-year-old boy has died after an explosive device exploded in his hands on Tuesday along Chikala Hill in Machinga close to a Malawi Defense Force motor firing camp where he went to burn charcoal with his friends.

The Kenya Defense Force says there is more to learn from Small Holder Tea Company (STECO) in tea production.