For conservationists, the message is clear: while community-led clean-ups are making a visible difference, protecting one of the world’s most remarkable freshwater ecosystems will ultimately require ...

It’s not so much the water that Tanzania and Malawi are quarreling about, but rather, what lies beneath it. That’s because the sediments beneath Lake Malawi, or Lake Nyasa as it is known in Tanzania, ...

Malawi fishermen pick their catch from their net on the shores of Lake Malawi, Malawi, Wednesday Aug. 1, 2007.

Following recent oil finds in Uganda and Kenya, Malawi hopes to be the next East African country to strike black gold. Malawi has awarded British oil company Surestream Petroleum the only contract to ...

Women do laundry on the banks of the Rukuru River in Malawi's Karonga district. (Photo by Nicole Johnston / Oxfam) KARONGA, Malawi, November 25, 2014 (ENS) – Paladin Africa Ltd, which mines uranium ...

An eager crowd waits for a cedarwood boat near Lake Malawi. The crew of six deliver a single net of chambo, sardine and tiny usipa fish from the boat, just one of 72 vessels that land their catch ...

Researchers have found that chunks of "flipped" DNA can help fish quickly adapt to new habitats and evolve into new species, acting as evolutionary "superchargers." CABI has published a "Guide to the ...

I read Pastor Hastings Salanje’s post on the Lake Malawi dispute. Pastor Salanje as a man of God advises us to avoid shedding of blood by bowing down to Tanzania’s call of sharing it with them. He ...

"Sex for fish." That unlikely phrase is used in some lakefront communities in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world where men catch the fish and women sell the catch to local customers. In ...

ZOMBA, Malawi, August 24, 2012 (ENS) – Malawi’s Lake Chilwa could dry up completely in 2013 or 2014, scientists warn. The prediction has created fears of hunger and economic ruin among the more than ...

Following recent oil finds in Uganda and Kenya, Malawi hopes to be the next East African country to strike black gold. Malawi has awarded British oil company Surestream Petroleum the only contract to ...