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.

The ministry of local government says waste management will be top on the agenda as city council’s gear up for the first-ever series of city summits.

In the wake of a looming Covid-19 fourth wave, Project Last Mile has embarked on a six-month campaign in Thyolo and Zomba districts to scale up Covid-19 vaccine uptake.

The Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) says there is a need to invest in interventions targeting the community structures in a bid to counter the existing misinformation on Covid-19 which has impacted negatively on HIV, TB and Malaria programmes.

Thyolo District Commissioner Rosemary Nawasha says many households are facing terrible hunger as they did not harvest enough last year besides shortage of land.

Apostle Clifford Kawinga of the Salvation for All Ministries International believes religious institutions have a greater role of helping to tackle the current social-economic needs of people facing countries across the globe.

Police in Blantyre have arrested a 28-year-old man, Davie Mtendere in Phalombe, on suspicion that he broke into a house of a police officer in Chileka, stole a gun and used it to commit another crime in Thyolo, where he shot dead a motorcycle taxi operator.

A flooded river has washed away Namadzi bridge in the area of Traditional Authority Nanseta in Thyolo, isolating villagers from accessing social amenities.