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  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Hundreds dead after Cyclone Freddy ravages Malawi and Mozambique

    Latest tropical storm is ranked as one of the longest and most powerful ever recorded

    Malawi Defence Force recovers a body of a victim of landslide which resulted due to heavy rains
  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Bribery and corruption
    Malawian anti-corruption head detained as graft scandal escalates

    Political crisis linked to British businessman rocks one of world’s poorest countries

    Martha Chizuma sits in a living room during an interview with Agence France-Presse in Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Malawi vice-president faces charges as graft scandal deepens

    Officials alleged to have helped UK businessman secure overpriced deals

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    News in-depthAfrican economy
    Global inflation pushes millions of Africans back into poverty

    People across continent struggle to cope with impact of weak currencies and high prices

    Cooking oil is prepared for sale at a market stall in Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Black History Month 2022 — celebrating creativity across the arts
    Samson Kambalu’s Fourth Plinth sculpture takes a subversive approach to colonial history

    The memorial to Malawian liberation hero John Chilembwe comes at a sensitive moment in the UK’s debate about public art

    bronze statue of two men standing in hats, one far taller than the other
  • Sunday, 21 August, 2022
    Interview
    Malawi’s president vows to crack down on graft after state resources probe

    Lazarus Chakwera spurred by international investigation over British businessman and government officials

    Malawi’s president Lazarus Chakwera
  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    British businessman investigated over alleged Malawi corruption

    Zuneth Sattar’s contracts with one of Africa’s poorest countries under scrutiny

    Demonstrators wash their faces after police fired tear gas at them during a demonstration in Lilongwe, Malawi, on November 26 2021
  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    News in-depth
    Malawi struggles to vaccinate against Covid in Africa’s crunch year for jabs

    Officials in one of the world’s poorest nations up against sporadic supply and poor logistics

    People waiting to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre
  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Africa
    Rising prices fuel protests in Malawi

    At stake in the southern African country is one of the continent’s biggest democratic success stories of recent years

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Former Malawi officials arrested for allegedly misleading IMF

    Ex-finance minister and former central bank governor accused of having ‘masterminded’ the falsification of information

    The IMF building in Washington
  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Covid-19 vaccines burnt as shelf-life complicates global rollout

    Dose expiry dates and delayed international deliveries mean some jabs arrive too late to be used

  • Monday, 20 July, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Africa prepares for surge in infections

    A rise in cases is dashing hopes that the continent’s younger population would spare it from the worst of coronavirus

    Conakry, Guinea
  • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
    Opposition takes power in Malawi after historic election rerun

    Former Pentecostal pastor Lazarus Chakwera defeats Peter Mutharika in presidential poll

  • Saturday, 18 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Court suspends lockdown in Malawi

    Ruling sets precedent in continent where poorest fear cure could be worse than the disease

  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2020
    Instant InsightDavid Pilling
    Malawi court decision is a victory for African democracy

    The annulment of the 2019 election result sets an important precedent

    Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima (C) reacts before delivering a speech during the official launch of their United Transformation Movement (UTM) at Masintha ground in the capital Lilongwe on July 21, 2018. - Malawi's vice-president Saulos Chilima launched his own political party to run against the government in elections next year, persisting in his public attack on President Peter Mutharika's cabinet. (Photo by Amos Gumulira / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    African politics
    Malawi court overturns 2019 presidential election result

    Victory for opposition as Mutharika’s ‘Tipp-Ex’ win annulled over ‘massive’ irregularities

    Re-instated Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima (R) greets lawyers on February 3, 2020, in Lilongwe, prior a Malawi constitutional court ruling which annulled the results of a May 2019 vote that re-elected the then incumbent president. - Malawi's main opposition party welcomed the constitutional court's decision to annul last year's presidential election results over irregularities and vote rigging. (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP) (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Drones
    Malawi drone initiative takes drugs to remote areas faster

    View from the sky also monitors poaching, floods and mosquito breeding sites

    Kyoto Uni Testing - the new Unicef "Drone Academy" in Malawi
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2019
    Malawi sends soldiers on to streets to uphold protest ban

    Re-election of Mutharika has plunged nation into months-long crisis

    Protesters watch a Malawi Defence Force armoured vehicle passing by during an overnight vigil against the result of the May 21 presidential vote in Lilongwe on July 4, 2019. - Several thousand people protested in Malawi's capital Lilongwe on July 4, 2019 against the re-election of the President, which they claim was fraudulent. Police and soldiers were on duty as marchers headed towards parliament for a two-day vigil. (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Saturday, 27 July, 2019
    News in-depthAfrican politics
    Malawi’s ‘Tipp-Ex president’ Mutharika faces high court challenge

    Claims of vote rigging spark political crisis in one of world’s poorest countries

    Supporters of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Leader Lazarus Chakwera shout slogans as they hold a flag while marching from their party headquarters to Capital Hill, Government Headquarters in Lilongwe, June 4, 2019, in protest against the recent election of President Peter Mutharika. - Some 3,000 Malawian opposition supporters have marched through the capital Lilongwe to protest alleged fraud in elections last month that returned Peter Mutharika as president. Backers of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) allege their leader Lazarus Chakwera was robbed of victory in the May 21 election, which an official count showed he lost by just 159,000 votes. (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 27 May, 2019
    Malawi’s president wins second term
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2019
    Disease control and prevention
    Malawi starts pilot of malaria vaccine for children

    GSK drug to be piloted as part of landmark project across Africa

    A Health Surveilance Assistant prepares to give a dose of the Malaria Vaccinne into the first recipient on April 23, 2019 at Mitundu Community hospital in Malawi's capital district of Lilongwe on the first day of the Malaria vaccine implementation pilot programme in Malawi aiming to immunise 120,000 children aged two years and under to assess the effectiveness of the pilot vaccine and whether the delivery process is feasible. - Malawi spearhead today large scale pilot tests for the world's most advanced experimental malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the disease that kills hundreds of thousands across Africa each year. After more than three decades in development and almost $1 billion in investment, the cutting-edge trial will be rolled out in Malawi's capital Lilongwe this week and then in Kenya and Ghana next week. (Photo by AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP)AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
    Foreign aid
    Malawi president dismisses graft allegations

    Mutharika’s dispute with deputy threatens resumption of aid donations

    Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika (C) wears two football club scarves of the teams of a friendly match as part of national celebrations to commemorate the country's 54th Independence Anniversary, July 6, 2018. (Photo by Amos Gumulira / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 9 August, 2018
    World
    Zimbabwe pressed to guarantee safety of Mnangagwa critic

    Tendai Biti appears in court as west seeks protection for former finance minister

    Zimbabwean opposition leader Tendai Biti of the Peoples democratic Party (PDP) addresses supporters gathered at a rally to launch the opposition parties' coalition to fight Zimbabwe long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in 2018 elections on August 5, 2017 in Harare. Zimbabwean opposition parties launch a united alliance to take on Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in 2018 elections on August 5, 2017 in Harare. / AFP PHOTO / Jekesai NJIKIZANA (Photo credit should read JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 11 May, 2018
    Special Report
    Public leadership: Harvard helps women step up

    The Women and Power course allowed Gertude Chirambo to navigate Malawi’s male-dominated politics

    Female leadership: Gertrude Chirambo had to navigate the male-dominated political sphere in Malawi
  • Tuesday, 17 April, 2018
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Malaria vaccine pilot steers past final delays

    Health officials in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have to get the right systems in place

    GSK; GlaxoSmithKline; Kenya; PULSE
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