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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.

Malawi’s choice to buy 1.5 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses to vaccinate 4.5 million people for the coronavirus was based on, among other things, the vaccines’ low cost to the country’s National Treasury, APA learnt on Tuesday.

The Malawi government plans to proceed with plans to import the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine despite misgivings about its efficacy against a more potent variant of the COVID-19 virus, Health Minister Khumbize Chiponda said on Monday night.