National News

Yum to Add 100 KFC Outlets in Africa

By DEVON MAYLIE JOHANNESBURG—Yum Brands Inc. plans to expand its KFC fast-food chain into seven more countries across Africa in 2012 […]

Brazil’s Vale to build $1 bln rail lines in Malawi

Malawi has signed a $1 billion deal with Brazil’s Vale for the construction and rehabilitation of a rail line that […]

Does Malawi turn out to be the new Zimbabwe?

  In recent times political observers, civil societies and newspapers from both Zimbabwe and Malawi recognized a systematic deterioration of circumstances in […]

Hailstorm in Malawi

A two-year-old girl died in Malawi’s northern region district of Rumphi following a heavy hailstorm that hit the area and […]

American Woman Dead in Nkhata Bay After Assault

NKHATABAY: An American peace corp who was attacked in  Nkhata Bay on new year’s day has died. Police have since […]

Govt Buys Off French Cultural Centre, Govt will rename it

BLANTYRE: The Malawi government has finalized payment of 300 million kwacha to the French government to take over the old […]

Clinic in a Box! Malawi’s LSPCA

‘Clinic in a Box’ is an exciting project to set up a new veterinary clinic in Malawi. Our current clinic […]

Parties fear social unrest

Malawi’s current economic crisis has the potential of triggering social unrest should government delay in coming up with coping mechanism […]

Malawi: Strengthening power for infants’ sustenance

Chancy Namadzunda, AfricaNews reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi Like many rural and illiterate mothers from her home village Nthiwatiwa in Salima […]

Celebrities Zim’s Munya and ‘Miss Malawi’ steal the show at National Lottery Launch

BLANTYRE—Zimbabwe’s Munya Chidzonga and Miss Malawi Faith Chibale were the celebrities at the launch of National Lotteries Group (NLG) on […]