20110428
Reuters
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Britain ordered Malawi's acting ambassador to leave the country on Wednesday soon after the African state expelled Britain's envoy over his criticism of its leader.

20110425
reuters

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi has expelled the British ambassador after he criticised the southern African country's leadership as autocratic in a leaked diplomatic cable, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

20110419
reuters

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi is seeking to expel the British ambassador for criticising the southern African country's leadership for being autocratic, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.

20110208
africanews

On the heels of a new media law that gives power to the minister of information and civic education to ban any publication deemed to be operating contrary to the "wishes" of the people, police arrested a journalist last Sunday. Award winning journalist, Kondwani Kamiyala, was picked taking photographs of the law enforcers administering police brutality during a musical show.

20110107
africanews

Good rains received in southern and central areas of Malawi for the 2010/11 agricultural season and the availability of Farm Input Subsidy Programme, which benefited an estimated 1.6 million smallholder maize farmers, has raised prospects of another good harvest in that country.

20101228
africanews

Jika Nkolokosa, one of Malawi's most prolific veteran journalists has died. He has worked for most of the country's newspapers as a reporter, editor, and a well known columnist.

20101228
africanews

Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika defended himself that the multi-million dollar mausoleum he unveiled last Christmas for his late wife, Ethel, was solely funded by well-wishers and not a penny from government went into the project, AfricaNews monitored the event broadcast live on state radio and television, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).

20101221
IPS

Blantyre — Hermes Chimombo, a welder in his 50's, is a revered man in the impoverished Naotcha Township. Armed with rudimentary tools and a passion to ease people's suffering, he has tapped a spring in the mountain above the slum to provide water for its 25,000 residents.

20101217
africanews

Six G4 security guards were arrested early Wednesday after a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operative tipped police they were discussing firing of the party's first and second vice presidents.

20101210
africanews

A Malawian in the British Army is one of the iconic group of soldiers that guard Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. He is in the Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS), an elite infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division regiment.

20101210
africanews

Barely a few days after President Bingu wa Mutharika ordered the dissolution of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) due to a massive US$9.2 million fraud allegation, a High Court judge, Justice Anaclet Chipeta, Thursday evening granted an injunction stopping the president from sacking the commissioners.

20101128
africanews

The Malawi National AIDS Commission (NAC) has launched the fraud and corruption prevention strategy to create awareness of corruption and fraud issues amongst all implementers of HIV/AIDS activities.

20101122
africanews

Sister Beatrice Chipeta, founder of the Lusubilo Orphan Care in Malawi's northern tip lakeshore district of Karonga, has been awarded one of the world's largest honours, the Opus Prize at Fordham Jesuit University in United States of America.

20101113
africanews

Chichewa becomes one of the few African languages that have been used to localise the popular English Google version. Gmail, Google Maps and Google are now being enjoyed in Malawi's national local language.

20101009
RFI

A group in Malawi is demanding the release of 80 convicted "witches" from prison. Most of the convicts are women who were convicted for teaching witchcraft to children. They are serving up to six years in prison.

20100926
africanews

Sixteen parents will answer charges of malicious damage after razing down houses belonging to three alleged witchcraft teachers, AfricaNews has learnt.

20100925
africanews

Celebrated Jamaican poet and musician Mutabaruka whose real name is Allan Hope will participate in the Poetry Africa Tour which starts on September 26.

20100924
africanews

Africa is striving to transform itself politically and economically for the benefit of its people, the chairman of the African Union, Bingu wa Mutharika has told the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying leaders in the continent were working to eradicate hunger, disease and poverty.

20100922
africanews

African leaders said they could do more to meet U.N. goals to slash extreme poverty and urged stronger leadership among developing countries to tackle hunger and disease and attract investment. A special session of the U.N. General Assembly is reviewing progress in meeting the U.N. Millennium Goals agreed in 2000 and urged intensified efforts to achieve them.

20100906
africanews

In an ambitious programme, the Catholic University will become the second to offer legal studies in the country after the public University of Malawi (UNIMA). It will also become the first privately owned school of higher learning to train lawyers.