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Political activist Bon Kalindo has threatened to close the country’s borders if President Lazarus Chakwera’s government fails to address the socio-economic challenges facing ordinary Malawians.

Malawi’s annualised inflation rate rose marginally to 8.9 percent in September on the back of an increase in the cost of foodstuffs, official data released on Thursday showed.

Malawi’s former deputy speaker of parliament Clement Chiwaya committed suicide inside the parliament building on Thursday following a dispute over vehicle benefits.

Malawi’s energy regulator has allayed fears of a major fuel shortage, assuring motorists on Thursday that the country has more than enough stocks of petrol and diesel and that current stockouts at some filling stations are due to an ongoing truck drivers’ strike.

President Lazarus Chakwera will next week receive a democracy award on behalf of the Malawians on the sidelines of the 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York, a senior official said on Monday.

Malawi experienced a 72-percent rise in suicide cases during the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period in 2020, an official said on Monday.

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has reintroduced a measure that requires companies to dispose of part of their export proceeds to the central bank in a move aimed at improving the availability of foreign currency in the country.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has approved the transformation of its parliamentary forum into a regional parliament, ending years of contentions as some countries saw the move as a threat to their national sovereignty.

A Botswana national, Elias Magosi was on Wednesday unveiled as the new executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), taking over from Stergomena Lawrence Tax of Tanzania whose term ends this month.

President Lazarus Chakwera has fired Malawi’s Attorney General Chikosa Silungwe, according to media reports monitored here on Wednesday.