Malawi’s industry regulator reported on Saturday that tobacco sales, its main export, rose 40% in 2024 despite an El Nino-induced drought. The Malawi Tobacco Commission (TC)...
To expedite the electoral procedures for the September 2025 general elections in Malawi, the Electoral Commission (Mec) has implemented Election Management Devices (EMDs). Sangwani Mwafulirwa, the...
An insurance payout of $11.2 million has been given to the government of Malawi in response to a severe drought caused by El Nino that prompted...
Former President Peter Mutharika, 84, has been backed by Malawi’s largest opposition, the Democratic Progress Party, as a 2025 presidential candidate. Leading the nation from 2014...
Malawi’s apex court, the Constitutional Court, has dismissed a case filed by two applicants who wanted it to legalize same-sex marriages in the country. The applicants,...
According to a statement from the president’s office, an aeroplane carrying nine other people, including vice president of Malawi Saulos Chilima, has vanished. It said that...
As a response to its food crisis, the World Bank said on Friday that it would give Malawi $57.6 million in “quick release” grants. “This support...
In an effort to improve its tourism sector, which is one of Malawi’s main sources of foreign earnings, the government has waived the need for a...
Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State in...
Multilateral body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Malawi needs almost $1 billion in debt relief from its creditors by 2027. The announcement comes...