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The United States government has donated US$9.5 million towards a programme to assist food-insecure peasant farmers and refugees in Malawi, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Thursday.

Malawi and South Sudan on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding under which they agreed to strengthen trade between the two countries.

Malawi has lost a second soldier who was on a peacekeeping mission in the troubled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Malawi Defence Force announced on Monday.

A Malawian soldier serving under the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) was killed this week following an attack on a peacekeepers’ base in eastern DRC, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Malawi’s Flames will have to play their home matches of the forthcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers at a neutral venue after the country’s only approved stadium was condemned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), APA learnt here on Tuesday.

The Malawi Supreme Court has outlawed the death penalty, ruling on Wednesday that corporal punishment violates the constitutional rights of offenders.

Malawi has ordered the destruction of 16,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine after they expired before they could be used, an official said on Thursday.

Malawi has pledged to support the candidature of Botswana’s Elias Magosi for the position of head of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat.

There have been running battles between anti-riot police in Malawi and protesting pupils demanding the reopening of schools.

At least 25 percent of children in Malawi are chronically malnourished and require urgent assistance with food and healthcare, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.