As resources dry up, thousands of displaced families at Dzaleka, the Southern African country’s largest refugee camp, struggle with shrinking food rations, healthcare, and overcrowding.
Young refugees are using spoken word poetry to reclaim hope and inspire resilience.
Successfully balancing music that makes you dance while raising awareness, the renowned band’s fourth album moves their signature “desert blues” into an acoustic, collaborative sound inspired by ethnic groups around the country.
In this month’s movies and TV guide for Southern Africa, we have a sci-fi thriller, a documentary on the life of South African photographer Ernest Cole, and more.
Seventeen percent of the region’s entire population is affected by the crisis, according to the Southern African Development Community.
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima’s aircraft, missing since Monday, has been found “completely destroyed with no survivors,” President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera says.
Even with minimal cash injections, Laura Schuerwegen and her team has successfully had four editions of the Zomba City Festival in the last four years.
Malawi mourns the loss of its reggae and Afro-pop icon, Thomas Chibade, who has passed away at 37.
The death toll in Malawi has reached 447 people, with 282 residents missing and close to 400,000 people still displaced.
35 days in, and Tropical Storm Freddy has torn through Malawi and Mozambique, making it the region's longest lasting cyclone to date.
This simple diagnostic test is giving hope to thousands of women in Malawi.
So far, Lesotho and Malawi diplomats were expelled after South African officials discovered that they had been involved in illicit alcohol trading.
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