At the 2025 Presidential Media Breakfast in Mzuzu, President Lazarus Chakwera smiled for the cameras. But behind the photo ops and polished platitudes was a media landscape under siege—silenced, squeezed, and suffocating under his administration’s watch. While croissants were served and quotes from Denzel Washington filled the air, journalists across Malawi continued to navigate […]

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