The Malawian government has finally paid compensation to 18 women and girls who were raped by police officers in the capital Lilongwe during post-election violence in 2018. This Read more »

Conservationists in Malawi have launched an ambitious project to rear 50,000 endangered Mulanje cycads - palm-like trees with poisonous leaves that have been around since before ... Read more »

Scores of workers and representatives of worker organisations mobilised under the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU)  have submitted a petition to parliament in Lilongwe, ... Read more »

In Malawi, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex (LGBTQI) community have held their first ever pride parade in the capital, Lilongwe, pushing for ... Read more »

The Malawi government has announced a goal to eliminate malaria, a leading cause of death in the country, by 2030. Speaking during a televised launch of a nationwide anti-malaria ... Read more »

Malawi's highest court has outlawed the death penalty and ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution. Capital punishment has long been mandatory in Malawi for ... Read more »

South Africa declared diplomats from Lesotho and Malawi to be persona non grata for abusing diplomatic privileges and gave them 72 hours to leave the country. South Africa's ... Read more »

Malawi has one of the highest rates of preterm births globally. Figures from 2015 indicated that over 1 in 10 Malawian babies were born prematurely. And its neonatal death rate was ... Read more »

Malawi lawmakers have taken a sudden U-turn and confirmed Martha Chizuma as the first woman to head Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau. Earlier, MPs had rejected Chizuma for the post, ... Read more »

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has warned that his country's leading foreign exchange earner, tobacco,was in terminal decline and urged a switch to high-growth crops like ... Read more »