Maravi Post

Maravi Post was started in 2009 and it has had about 20 employees.^[1] The publication is one of the four online-only news websites in Malawi that include Nyasa Times, Malawi 24 and the Malawi Voice.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2023, Dorica Mtenje, who was a Maravi Post journalists was arrested and held for several hours. The Committee to Protect Journalists protested the arrest because it interfered with press freedom. Moreover they noted that Mtenje did not write the offending article which involved the alleged defamation of the National Intelligence Service Director General Dokani Ngwira. The authorities believed that although there was no evidence, they suspected that Dorica Mtenje and her boss, Lloyd M’bwana, had written the article.^[2]

The Maravi Post has offices in Lilongwe, but its headquarters are said to be in Atlanta in Georgia.^[3] It says it is not associated with any political party.^[4]