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May 7, 2021 12:33 PM EDT Fields of rust-colored soil, spindly cassava, small farms and villages dot the landscape. Dust and smoke blur the mountains visible beyond massive Lake Malawi. Here in tropical Africa, you can’t escape the signs of human presence. How far back in time would you need to go in this place to discover an entirely natural environment? Wearepart of an interdisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists who study past human behavior, geochr...

92 000 years ago, humans significantly altered ecology and landscapes using fire. Archaeologists believe the humans who arrived in the Karonga district started burning down the forest to open the landscape for hunting. Photo: Og Mpango/Unsplash. As far as we know, humans as a species have been around for at least 300 000 years. Recently, we have come to realize that our impact on the climate and earth’s ecology is unsustainable. Landscape change driven by humans is nothing ...

Karonga Police Station has drilled officials of different financial institutions on how to handle and enhance security at the institutions in a bid to curb criminal syndicate which has recently been targeting financial institutions in the country. Karonga Police Station Officer-in-Charge, Tiyese Chiumbuzo, said there are many financial institutions in the district that do not have qualified security personnel thereby being at risk of being robbed. He said there is need for financial institution...

Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.

Two people in Karonga are in police custody for allegedly being found in possession of a live pangolin. Karonga Police spokesperson, Enock Livasoni confirmed

55). The primary aim was to understand the subsurface distribution of artifacts and fan deposits across the larger landscape. Artifacts are typically deeply buried within the Chitimwe Beds in all places except at the margins, where erosion has begun to remove the top part of the deposit. During informal survey, two people walked across Chitimwe Beds that appear as mapped features on Government of Malawi geological maps. As these people encountered the shoulders of Chitimwe Bed deposits, they be...

May 5, 2021 Duncan Mlanjira - Nyasa Times 1 Comment * As it also concludes its final draw of Yendani Mofewa Easter promotion done together with NICO Life * 70 clients have so far won K60,000 worth of fuel each in promotion launched on April 1 NICO General has now opened an outlet at Songwe Border Karonga in order to service clients who import vehicles into the country that land in the neighbouring Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. This border post is a high traffic area for cars that have...

Alliance for Democracy (Aford) has said much as the Coronavirus pandemic has hit hard and continues to rock the country, it is hopeful and ready to hold its national elective convention sometime this year. Aford – a governing Tonse Alliance partner – has for the past two years been marred by intraparty instability that was fuelled by “cacophonous” conventions in 2018—prior to the 2019 tripartite elections. Chihana: Then, Enock Chakufwa Chihana, the current president, and versatile pol...

“For decades, Malawi has lacked patriotism.” Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has announced that he is set to make major reforms in the mining sector, including setting up of a government-owned mining company. In his special televised government policy national address at Mtunthama State Residence on Sunday, President Chakwera disclosed that the Malawi government plans to establish a Mining Regulatory Authority in order to reorganise the country’s mining industry. Chakwera announces new ...

A priest in the Catholic Diocese of Karonga has commended the highest court in the land—the Malawi Supreme Court—saying its decision to outlaw the death penalty is in line with the church’s teaching as regards “the sanctity of life.” Father Joseph Sikwese, who is also Bishop Martin Mtumbuka’s secretary, said in an interview with Nyasa […]