Thirty four inmates died in the country's 31 prisons in 2011 due to varying illnesses, Prison authorities have confirmed, representing a 26 percent drop when 46 inmates died in 2010.

Former president Bakili Muluzi will from this Wednesday pay a two-day visit to Zambia on invitation from the new Zambian President Michael Sata.

Two leading political analysts have said that former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) is "beyond redemption" after its secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala spurned a disciplinary hearing following his dissolution of the party's structures.

Government has said that instead of just pointing out to what is going wrong, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) should use its structures to solve the myriad of problems the country is facing.

December 25 is Christmas Day, arguably the highlight of the festive season. The Sunday Times reporter Clement Chinoko caught up with a cross section of public figures who shared what they will be doing on this day.

A question appearing under MP for Mzimba South Paul Shawa's name requesting Deputy Minister in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Nicholas Dausi to consider abolishing the office of the Vice President because it has not served the country well has been disowned.

A contractor who constructed part of the fence for the mausoleum of the late First Lady Ethel Mutharika at Ndata Farm in Thyolo has written President Bingu wa Mutharika asking for his payment for the work he did two years ago.

A timber footbridge that the Roads Authority says cost K2 million to build in Zomba Sadzi is a cause of suspicion among residents as they claim that such an amount of money could not have been spent on a poor structure.

Malawian growers of cannabis (chamba) are getting very little money from their labour, even though the illicit drug is fetching a lot on the international market, a World Bank report has said.

Due to the demand for student accommodation around tertiary colleges in the city of Blantyre, landlords are now evicting their tenants in order to turn their houses into hostels, The Sunday Times has learnt.

South African citizen Graig Sieben, who started walking on foot and hitchhiking from Pretoria in South Africa 77 days ago, and plans to reach Egypt's Capital City, Cairo, by April 26, 2012 in a campaign aimed to raise awareness about the plight of people with disabilities in Africa, arrived in Malawi on Monday.

Corruption in Malawi has, in the past 12 months, worsened according to a Transparency International (TI) 2011 corruption perceptions index, which has seen Malawi drop on the ranking from 100 to 85 on the least corrupt countries.

If you upset a cobra, you must brace yourself for a fight to the finish.

What was Mariam Nazeem's compound in Kalilima Village in Traditional Authority Mkanda in Mulanje is now a rubble of destruction courtesy of irate villagers who looted and torched her compound for suspecting her to be a witch and responsible for a spate of deaths in the area.

Elock Maotcha, former deputy trade minister,  is facing charges of “theft by trick” of a vehicle valued at K4 million belonging to Namandanje Roman Catholic Parish in Ntanja, Machinga district.

Calculations by The Sunday Times on the new salaries that Members of Parliament have approved for themselves show that the cost of the increment is enough to service the health needs of hundreds of thousands of Malawians for many years.

Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have resolved to hold a vigil at parliament should members of parliament’s proposal to have their salaries raised to about K1 million per month be implemented.

For Malawi to meet the growing demand for skilled healthcare personnel in both public and private hospitals, the country has to graduate at least 120 doctors each year. The country’s sole medical school intends has plans to achieve this by 2015.

The need for accommodation by non-residential students from various colleges in Blantyre has seen many houses turned into hostels as home owners seek to make a killing from desperate students.

Two years after 14 commercial sex workers in Mwanza were arrested by police and forced to undergo an HIV test, the issue has now taken a dramatic turn with the sex workers dragging government to court for unfair action and for violating their right to privacy.