Full Coverage: Malawi

22.04.2008 Journalist Maxwell Ngambi has been arrested by the Police on suspicion that he wanted to interview a former Speaker of parliament and cabinet minister, Sam Mpasu from a prison without authority.

27.03.2008 Malawi Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati on Friday said that the country will have a booming information and communication technology services after successfully piloting ICT telecentres in some districts of the country. To be regulated by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), the telecentres will be run by women as a way of involving them in ICT activities, the minister said.

25.03.2008 A journalist working for Blantyre Newspapers Limited was arrested on Wednesday March 12 and detained by the Police in Mzuzu for taking pictures of a group of people that had gathered outside offices of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), after a police officer was arrested

25.03.2008 A journalist working for Blantyre Newspapers Limited was arrested on Wednesday March 12 and detained by the Police in Mzuzu for taking pictures of a group of people that had gathered outside offices of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), after a police officer was arrested.

14.11.2007 Joy TV- a sister company to Joy Radio has been held up in the wrangle with the countryÂ’s communications regulator after it challenged Macra Board in court describing it as illegal.

09.11.2007 The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has ordered Joy TV to immediately stop any television broadcasting until the station is issued with appropriate radio and broadcasting licenses.

07.11.2007 Joy Television Limited, expected to be MalawiÂ’s first private TV station, will not go ahead to launch 24 hour beaming of its programmes following Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MacraÂ’s) refusal to give the station a broadcasting frequency.

02.05.2007 Community radio is now a part of the lives of the people in Mangochi District, Malawi, in southeastern Africa. UNESCO supported Dzimwe Community Radio station is a boon for the locals who cannot read and write. High temperatures between 35-40° C and constant power failures are not enough to discourage the dedicated announcers keen on serving their community.

18.10.2006 There are positive aspects to inter-country adoption, UNICEF has said, but a southern African child welfare group warns that Madonna's "bending of the rules" is sending a message to child traffickers that Malawi is open for business.

24.03.2006 Blantyre (AND) Over 70 percent of government ministries and departments in Malawi will be electronically connected as one way promoting efficient communication among civil servants in the delivery of service to the public.

18.01.2006 Heavy rain is hampering food distribution in southern Malawi for more than 70,000 people at risk from hunger because of drought.

12.12.2005 Britain has announced additional funding of more than US $12 million to address the growing food needs in drought-stricken Malawi and Zambia.

28.10.2005 In a radio and TV appeal for help, MalawiÂ’s President Binguwa Mutharika said the country was facing a national disaster from the worsening food crisis.

* OneWorld Guide to Malawi

21.10.2005 The food shortage in Malawi has worsened, with an estimated 4.6 million people in need of emergency food support and the situation expected to become more acute from December to March.

07.10.2005 Malawi's political crisis has distracted government and caused parliament to lose focus amid a hunger crisis threatening more than four million people, and could also jeopardise foreign aid, warns the British High Commissioner.

22.09.2005 inadequate rainfall and a poor harvest mean that 34 per cent of Malawians - including 1 million children and pregnant women - will be unable to get enough to eat until the next harvest in March 2006.

08.09.2005 Severe food shortages are beginning to hit southern Africa, with Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe worst affected.

30.08.2005 The UK government was on Sunday blasted by development agencies for blowing £700,000 of a £3m relief project meant for Malawi—a country plagued by drought, HIV/AIDS, and a disastrous economy—on hotel bills and meals for U.S. consultants.

18.02.2005 An innovative program in Malawi provides free, trained legal advisors to anyone who comes in contact with the criminal justice system at any point--from police stations to prisons. Since 2000, 37 paralegals have facilitated the release of more than 2,000 prisoners who were unlawfully or unnecessarily detained, significantly reducing the pre-trial prison population. Similar projects are being considered as far afield as Bangladesh and Cook County, Illinois, USA.

08.12.2004 In response to criticism of the exodus of vital Malawi health workers to UK private health clinics, the Department for International Development has come up with a package to increase local salaries.