Environmental activists Godfrey Mfiti and Mathews Malata say inadequate funding and failure to popularize National Charcoal Strategy are affecting its implementation which aims at addressing the increased deforestation in the country.

A week before K5000 bank note gets in circulation, the central bank, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) says it has put water-tight measures and enhanced security features to ensuring that nobody produces counterfeit notes.

Police in Thyolo are looking for murder suspects who have killed a security guard and stole window frames.

Nchima Estate, a subsidiary of Lujeri Tea Estate has bemoaned an increase in theft of macadamia nuts, cutting down of tea bushes and blue gum trees in Thyolo.

Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) has indefinitely closed down the institution following students protests that disrupted examinations over fees balances on Monday.

Health expert Professor Maureen Chirwa has asked the government to set up an emergency plan that will provide for immediate solution to the sanitation infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Ana to avoid cholera outbreak and waterborne diseases in the country.

Some students at the Malawi University of Science and Technology, (MUST) have staged protests and disrupted the administrations of examinations this morning after the management allegedly disallowed them to write examinations over outstanding fees balances.

Vendors at Thyolo Flea Market have taken a swipe at the district council for neglecting to fix the blocked and construct new toilets at the market.

Health authorities at Thyolo District Hospital say they are grappling with the acute shortage of staff and medical equipment such as, blood pressure machines and thermometers.

Ward councilors and chiefs in Thyolo have asked the district council to trace four contractors who signed the Performance bond and got advanced payments on the development projects they abandoned.