An educationist and director of Stance Academy in Thyolo, Stanford Jonathan says lack of discipline among some teachers and structured dialogue mechanisms in many schools are the main source of students' violent protest.

A year after irate communities torched Bvumbwe police sub-station in Thyolo, stakeholders have launched a resource mobilization drive to reconstruct the police structures.

The Malawi Digital Project says the internet connectivity being installed in government institutions will be configured to ensure no one is accessing illicit sites that promote sex harassment and terrorism.

Agriculture authorities in Thyolo have admitted that banana revamping drive is facing challenges with only 608 hectares restored over the years of the 3, 738 hectares.

Thyolo district commissioner Hudson Kuphanga says they are looking for resources to relocate Cyclone Freddy survivors in Sambambidzi area, Traditional Authority Changata that are returning to the disaster-prone site.

Thyolo First grade magistrate Kondani Chinangwa has ordered five men who assaulted Thyolo district hospital nurse to serve a 20 months jail term or pay a combined K250, 000 fine.

The Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) has sold 4, 610 metric tons of maize for the past two months, local leaders call for more stock supply.

At least 300 out of 640 students at Lunchenza secondary in Thyolo are sleeping on bed rails and torn mattresses, owing to a lack of school mattresses.

A Malawian afro musician and poet, Mashallo Stewart Samilo has urged artists in the country to embrace digital era in marketing the music on legal platforms.

Government is mum on the date and budget for the Umodzi Day celebrations, two months before the year ends.