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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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