MALAWI GOVERNMENT SPY MACHINE: NINE YEARS ON

MALAWI GOVERNMENT SPY MACHINE: NINE YEARS ON

Story by Gregory GondweBack in October of 2011, all Malawi’s four telecommunication service providers, sent identical text message to subscriber Alick Kimu, on his mobile phones. The companies stated that they would ‘no longer be in a position to safeguard the privacy...
MALAWI IN A DEADLY ILLICIT TRAP

MALAWI IN A DEADLY ILLICIT TRAP

Corporate negligence and paper promises are starving the citizenry while foreign giants slip away untaxed. BY JOSEPHINE CHINELEFrom her fifth month of pregnancy, Hendrina Nasuni began saving for something that, in a country with free public healthcare, she should...
WITCH DOCTOR ILLEGALLY “JAILING” CLIENTS

WITCH DOCTOR ILLEGALLY “JAILING” CLIENTS

An investigation in northern Malawi has revealed that so-called witchdoctors are illegally “jailing” clients who default on fees charged for exorcisms, and that the police are extremely reluctant to take action against them.The investigation showed that some of the...