Malawi has embarked on trials of genetically modified maize focused on curbing hunger and pests such as armyworms and caterpillars. The trials come despite concerns of possible effects that genetically modified organisms, GMOs, have on health and the environment. For VOA, reporter Lameck Masina filed this report from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe.
With International Women’s Day set to begin tomorrow, reporter Lameck Messina spoke to women in Malawi about their thoughts on the day and what it means to them
A secondary school dropout from rural Malawi has brought electricity to his community using what he says is a groundbreaking air-powered generator, bypassing use of fuel, oil or batteries. Experts have questions about how the system works, but Malawi’s government is pledging support. Lameck Masina reports from Dowa District.
US government built the schools as part of 89 planned for Malawi by the end of 2024
Maize lethal necrosis disease could wipe out the staple food, but the ban comes as the country struggles with food shortages
The Malawi government has partnered with the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, and a mobile service provider to help students in rural Malawi learn how to use the latest digital technology. However, a there is still a shortage of some gadgets. Lameck Masina reports from Dedza District in Malawi.
Malawi has long faced food shortages each year
BLANTYRE — Malawi has announced measures to end recurring fuel shortages which started in 2021. Consumers are facing long and winding queues in pump stations forcing many motorists to sleep in their vehicles while waiting to buy fuel.
BLANTYRE — Malawi says it is facing challenges to repatriate about 60 women trafficked in Oman who have complained of working under deplorable and slave-like conditions. The women raised alarm last year through social media posts saying they were facing physical and sexual and emotional abuses from their employers.
Suicide cases continue to rise in the country with figures showing the rate is now 11.6 per 100,000 people
Refugees say overcrowding and dwindling support are pushing many to leave the camp
Fuel stations in Malawi's economic capital, Blantyre, are running on empty after a fresh, nationwide fuel shortage this week.
BLANTYRE, MALAWI — A group representing people with albinism in Malawi is appealing for urgent intervention to stop continued attacks on people with albinism in the country.
BLANTYRE — The United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, for the first time scaled back Tuesday’s commemoration of World Refugee Day in Malawi after refugees called out the tough living conditions there. Malawi authorities have been forcibly relocating refugees into the Dzaleka refugee camp, where refugees say there is inadequate shelter, food, and clean water.
UN says it can’t tend to needs of people in overcrowded camp because of funding shortfalls
BLANTYRE — Malawi has started to forcefully evict and relocate refugees who live and do business outside the country's only refugee camp, Dzaleka, in the central part of the country.
Two-year study of the vaccine, the first in Africa, found it safe to use and effective in more than 80% of recipients
ZOMBA — The High Court of Malawi has ordered the government to allow Rastafarian students with dreadlocks to enroll in all public schools, a verdict marking the end of a three-year legal battle in which two students sued the government over its requirement that they cut their hair to promote uniformity in school.
Malawi's president says the country needs $700 million to rebuild
BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Officials in Malawi say they have halted search operations to finds about 500 people missing after the devastating Cyclone Freddy, and are now shifting their focus to rebuilding infrastructure.
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