Lameck Masina

Critics question why Malawi accepted doses with short shelf life

Malawi authorities say government has no money to pay teachers, who risk contracting coronavirus by teaching classes in person

Critics say 160-year-old law leads to more than 140,000 backstreet abortions annually that cause 12,000 deaths, countless permanent scars

Unsafe abortions kill 12,000 Malawian women every year, scars countless others

Unsafe abortions kill 12,000 Malawian women every year, scar countless others

The shipment was the first tranche of about 1.2 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocations for the country through the COVAX program

The teachers are demanding bonus pay for working during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as better protective equipment

Critics say decision to resume classes has been rushed and many schools, especially in rural areas, are not ready to reopen

Malawi has so far registered 29,035 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 952 deaths

In one village residents threw stones at an ambulance carrying a dead body, in an effort to force the heath care workers to release the body for viewing