Two of Malawi’s biggest donors, the World Bank and former colonial power Britain, have announced big new aid packages.
Officials say rioting prisoners in Malawi have briefly stalled the release of convicts who had been granted presidential pardons.
Malawi is returning to its 1964 independence flag, replaced in 2010 in an "attack on the country’s nationhood" by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika.
President Joyce Banda has announced an inquiry into an alleged plot by the inner circle of Malawi’s late former leader to block her rise to power.
An IMF mission hopes to recommend new loan programmes for Malawi following a visit after the country devalued its currency to boost the economy.
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has expressed how she’s carrying the expectations of all the women in the region.
The resumption of diplomatic ties with Britain has signalled progress in Malawi’s quest to distance the new regime from that of its late predecessor.
South Africa has agreed to loan Malawi nearly R270-million to ease crippling fuel shortages, in a show of confidence in the new government.
Late Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been laid to rest, and new President Joyce Banda has urged Malawians to remember him positively.
African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka has pledged to provide Malawi with $45-million in order to resuscitate the ailing economy.
Southern African Development Community leaders have neglected to use an opportunity to lead from the front, following Bingu wa Mutharika’s passing.
Malawi may have a new president, but its old problems remain, and Joyce Banda is under pressure to tackle currency and fuel shortages without delay.
President Joyce Banda has revealed a shake-up of top officials charged with government finances and media, purging loyalists of the former regime.
Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda has fired the nation’s police chief and hired a new one, two days after she took office.
Malawi will swear in it’s first female leader Joyce Banda, who is described as a fierce critic of deceased president Bingu wa Mutharika.
State sources say Malawi leader Bingu wa Mutharika has died after being rushed to Lilongwe Hospital during a heart attack but was dead on arrival.
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been rushed to hospital after collapsing and remains in a "very serious" condition, medical sources say.
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has responded to calls for him to resign by saying he could rule his destitute Southern Africa state ‘forever’.
A critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, who says thugs were sent to petrol bomb his office, has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and torture.
Southern African foreign ministers discussed the deadlocked polls for a new African Union head and to chart the bloc’s strategy for the next vote.
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/ 25 January 2012
Villagers in south Malawi have fled their flooded homes as the Shire and Ruo rivers burst their banks due to Mozambique’s deadly cyclone.
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/ 11 January 2012
Malawi has signed a $1-billion deal with Brazil’s Vale for the construction of a rail line to transport 18-million tonnes of coal from Mozambique.
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/ 10 January 2012
The International Monetary Fund has told Malawi to devalue its kwacha to address its foreign exchange shortage and stem its thriving black market.
Malawi’s courts have ground to a halt as some 2 000 judicial workers begin an indefinite strike over work conditions and higher pay, organisers say.
The African Parks Network reintroduced over 2 500 animals to the Majete Wildlife Reserve after poachers almost wiped out the animal population.
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/ 25 November 2011
<b>Sean Christie</b> and <b>Lisa King</b> travelled to Malawi to find out the fate of the iconic Mount Mulanji cedar.
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/ 25 November 2011
If appropriate research-based management practices are not found, the Mount Mulanje will be without its signature tree in a few years.
Things have gone very wrong for Malawi’s president and that could cripple the government’s ability to deliver subsidised fertiliser and seed farmers.
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/ 20 October 2011
A short history of Malawi’s maize seed and fertilizer project called Malawi’s Input Subsidy Programme.
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/ 13 October 2011
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Malawi on Thursday for a regional trade summit, despite the international war crimes warrant against him.
Human Rights Watch has asked Malawi to arrest Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir on an international war crimes warrant if he goes to the trade summit this week.
Zambian President Michael Sata will not travel to Malawi for a regional summit because his counterpart hasn’t apologised for having him expelled