Malawi

The Malawi Police Service is intensifying the use of the country’s cybersecurity law to restrict the voice and agency of journalists and citizens.

Sports journalist Yasin Lamu’s equipment damaged during attack by Wanderers FC supporters.

MISA Malawi is concerned at how numerous journalists working for the state broadcaster are being identified and investigated for alleged offenses committed under the Electronic Transactions and Cybersecurity Act.

The editorial director of the Platform for Investigative Journalists (PIJ), Gregory Gondwe, has been forced to go into hiding after his exposé on payments made by the military to businessman Zuneth Sattar.

Regional collective body, Spaces of Solidarity, steps in to ask Malawi’s Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to rethink hefty broadcasting licence fees.

Malawian journalist Dorica Mtenje is charged with defamation and offensive communication over an article she was not involved in writing.

The cancellation of broadcasting licences by Malawi’s regulator blocks citizens’ access to information and impacts negatively on the economic well-being of staff who have lost their jobs as a result of the industry-wide closures.

The website of Malawian news outlet Platform for Investigative Journalism was hacked just days after its managing director, Gregory Gondwe, was detained by police.

Gregory Gondwe, the head of a Malawian investigative journalism unit, is arrested over a story involving the Attorney General.

The Mozambican government’s pedestrian approach to the disappearance of Ibraimo Mbaruco perpetuates a culture of impunity that poses great risk to journalists.

Radio journalist Oliver Malibisa is verbally abused, hit in the chest with a gun, and detained by police for taking footage of a protest in central Malawi.

To counter the misinformation and disinformation defining the social media and street narrative on the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, MISA-Malawi draws on providing expert-based information.

A review of Malawi’s long awaited Data Protection and Privacy Bill shows there are a number of clauses that hinder freedom of expression and access to information.

Malawian journalist Watipaso Mzungu goes through disturbing interrogation for quoting a rights activist who called President Lazarus Chakwera a ‘joker’.