Browsing: Malawi

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has directed police to heighten border controls to prevent tobacco smugglers from selling the produce to neighboring countries at better prices. Tobacco…

President Lazarus Chakwera has announced a state of disaster in 23 out of the country’s 28 districts due to prolonged droughts. The president said the country…

Ganizani Mtaika was awarded MK2,800,000 by the Zomba High Court as compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned and spending 14 days in jail in Malawi. Mtaika’s fight…

Police in Malawi have seized mobile phones and laptops from at least 14 journalists working for the state-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, or MBC. The journalists are accused…

Malawi’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the former ruling party, has issued an apology for accepting a monetary kickback from a company embroiled in a corruption investigation.…

A Chinese national Lu ke was found guilty on Thursday by a Malawian court and expelled from the country after being charged with racism and abusing…

Vice-President Saulos Chilima will be allowed extra time to review his charge sheet before entering a plea in the corruption case he is facing, according to…

The biggest cholera outbreak in Malawi’s history, which began in March of last year and has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, is finally being defeated. Health officials…

The Malawian administration claims to be looking into a strange fire that burned offices of important government departments housing critical material in Lilongwe, the country’s capital.…

Ahead of relocating them to a refugee camp 40km north of Lilongwe, authorities In Malawi have raided the homes and business premises of refugees and asylum…