The Malawi government has yet to repay seven-million dollars to the European Union after the funds, intended for the health budget, went missing last August.
Malawi tobacco authorities on Wednesday suspended all sales for the country’s top export crop, tobacco, after prices plummeted on Monday.
Widespread hunger, poverty, political intolerance, crime, and human rights abuses are a major threat to democracy in Malawi, according to a report issued on Friday by the country’s human rights commission.
The World Bank will loan famine-hit Malawi
-million for an emergency recovery project to improve harvests and prevent more food shortages next year.
About 50 opposition supporters went into hiding following clashes with militant youths apparently aligned with the ruling party.
Britain will be a major sponsor of this year’s programme to distribute free maize seeds and fertiliser to farmers in famine-hit Malawi.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said the newly formed African Union would ”free” the continent from its former oppressors.
THE Malawi government has issued a fresh appeal to wealthy nations and aid agencies on Monday to provide emergency food assistance.
Malawi has lost -million in the corrupt sale of maize, a staple food in a country where more than three million face starvation.
Ten thousand people attending a prayer session on Sunday prayed for divine intervention to thwart the ruling party’s bid to abolish presidential term limits.
After decades of being apolitical and openly discriminated against, a section of some 4 000 Indians in Malawi are starting to seek equal rights and full integration into the economic and political life of the poor southern African state.
A GERMAN woman cycling around the world has been found murdered at Mangochi settlement in a popular national park in southern Malawi.
The International Monetary Fund has told Malawi’s government to sort out some ”pressure points” in its current budget before lending to the impoverished southern African nation can be resumed, a report said on Wednesday.
Up to half-a-million Malawians turned out to see Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi when he travelled the 350 kilometres by road from Lilongwe to Blantyre.
Malawi’s ruling party has fired the outspoken chairman of a parliamentary committee who was investigating a maize scandal blamed for worsening severe food shortages here, an official said on Wednesday.
A Malawian opposition official was denied bail on Wednesday after police accused him of inciting people to demonstrate against President Bakili Muluzi’s bid for a third term.