Catch up on the biggest stories of Wednesday, 7 January 2026 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.

And so it was over the holidays that I learnt that South Africa will in 2026 be facing a Rubicon.

The recent decision by President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika to move the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) from the Office of the Vice-President to the Office of the President and ...

Mutharika welcomes new British envoy Leigh Stubblefield, Ready to embrace UK's “donor-to-investor” strategy - The Maravi Post ...