Ethanol Company Limited (EthCo) has launched a psychosocial Peer Counselling Programme to provide employees with accessible first-line support for personal and workplace-related mental health challenges and well-being. Under the programme, EthCo has trained six of its employees, who have been certified by St John of God Hospitaller Services in Mzuzu. The training programme comprised one […]
A Christian pastor has called on Malawi’s police officers to guard their marriages as fiercely as they guard public safety, warning that infidelity is quietly adding to a mental health crisis many in the force are only now beginning to speak about openly. Speaking at the inaugural men’s conference held by Central West Region Police […]
A High Court judge has issued an extraordinary plea to Malawi’s male police officers — urging them to abandon their macho “tough-it-out” culture and finally open up about the crushing mental strain of the job. Judge Chifundo Kachale delivered his blunt message at Area 3 police offices in Lilongwe on Monday, addressing the force’s first-ever […]
Malawi’s government has unveiled a sweeping new plan to combat a devastating rise in suicides — with men bearing the brunt of the crisis — by bringing mental health support directly into communities, schools and even Parliament itself. Addressing MPs this week, Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Mary Navicha admitted mental health […]
Malawi’s Parliament erupted into an emotional and unusually candid debate this week after Gender Minister Mary Navicha dropped a bombshell appeal: it’s time for Malawian men to stop suffering in silence — and start crying openly. Navicha, responding to alarming concerns raised by Mzimba South MP Emmanuel Chambulanyina Jere over the country’s soaring suicide numbers, […]
Minister of Agriculture Roza Mbilizi has reignited debate over whether Christian churches should be regulated by the state, after calling for some “miracle” churches to be scrutinised. Speaking in Parliament while contributing to the ministerial statement on mental health, Mbilizi took aim at churches she said were causing depression among followers because of their questionable […]
Social media use is contributing to a mental health crisis among young Malawians, exposing them to content that promotes suicidal thoughts and self-harm, a government minister has told parliament. Roza Fatchi Mbilizi, the minister of agriculture, made the remarks on Thursday during a parliamentary debate over the country’s soaring suicide cases due to mental health […]
When news broke that a 30-year-old mechanic had died in a lodge at Lumbadzi after reportedly overdosing on sex-enhancement pills, social media exploded. Some dismissed it with dark humour. Others joked that he had “died from too much sweetness.” For many, it was just another trending story—another headline destined to disappear beneath tomorrow’s news. But somewhere, there was […]