[4] This generated international controversy because Malawian law stated that one year of residence was required of potential adoptive parents.

[6] On 19 June 2008 Gillian Merron, the British Minister for International Development, responsible for Africa, visited Mchinji and spoke about maternal health and the challenges faced by residents.

[7] Mchinji Boma lies at an elevation of 1,182 metres (3,877 ft),[citation needed] 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the Zambian border.

[11] Harvesting rain-fed agriculture is the main occupation in Mchinji, with groundnuts, tobacco, soya and casava beans being the primary cash crops.

[12] Mchinji is currently the location of a pilot project of a social cash transfer to benefit very poor members of rural areas.

[13] There are 10 Traditional Authorities namely; Mkanda, Mavwere, Zulu, Mlonyeni, Pitala, Simphasi, Dambe, Kapondo, Mduwa, Mponda and Nyoka.

[citation needed] Local politician Agnes Nkusa Nkhoma was elected in 2019 for the south constituency (Mabvere) after obtaining 5,000 votes.

[16] Reverend Thomson Chipeta, remembering losing both his parents, brought orphaned children into his home in 1992 and construction of an orphanage began in 1998.

[16] Due to a shortage in secondary schools in Malawi, the orphanage built one in January 2006 to cater to all residents in the surrounding area.

[17] In 2014, American charitable organisation Youth of Malawi, Inc. built a solar-rain water harvesting primary school in Chimphamba Village, Mchinji, for 180 first and second graders.

Roman Catholic is dominant in the district with Parishes such as Guilime, Ludzi, Kapiri, Kamangilira, Kachebere, Mkanda and Mchinji Boma.

[18] The hospital does not have beds for those accompanying the sick, cooking or washing facilities, although in early 2008 a brick shelter was created to protect parents from nature.

[20] In September 2010, an extension of the Sena railway was opened to the border town of Chipata, providing a new rail access point to Zambia via Mchinji.