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, ...

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 ...

As soon as you cast your eyes on Lake Malawi, the spectacular and bio-rich, 365-mile-long body of water that spans several countries along the East African Rift, you’re going to be itching to jump on ...

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 ...

Johannesburg — Malawi and Tanzania have never really agreed on who owns Lake Malawi, but it hasn't really mattered until now. What's changed? For the first time, there's something under those placid ...

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 ...

Dispatch No. 1, three weeks into Ross Exler’s solo paddling-plus-biking expedition to cross all of Africa’s Great Lakes, unsupported under human power. I have finished Lake Malawi, the first of the ...

BLANTYRE — Border experts from Malawi and Tanzania are meeting to try to resolve a decades-long dispute over ownership of Lake Malawi. The dispute flared again after Malawi's government conferred ...

Malawi, in southeastern Africa, is often confused with Mali, or even the Maldives in the Indian Ocean — but it is working hard right now to change that. On my one visit there about 20 years ago I ...