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Malawi’s anti-corruption chief Martha Chizuma was briefly detained on Tuesday for allegedly tarnishing the government’s image after a leaked audio in which she complained of lack of political will to rid the country of graft.
Malawi has become the first recipient of fertilizer donated by Russia to assist developing countries that have been hit hard by rising global crisis, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Malawian police have arrested the stepson of former President Peter Mutharika for alleged involvement in the deaths of 30 illegal migrants whose bodies were found in mass graves in a forest in October.
The International Monetary Fund has approved an US$88.3 million loan to Malawi under a new facility intended to help low-income countries cope with global food price shocks.
The International Monetary Fund has granted Malawi a waiver after the country misreported its international reserves three years ago, the Bretton Woods institution announced on Thursday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Malawi has warned that it is running out of food rations amid an influx of refugees and asylum seekers escaping fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The number of people who have died from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has risen by a staggering 64 percent over the past month as the government steps up efforts to improve the country’s water and sanitation infrastructure, the health ministry said late Monday.
Police in Malawi have discovered a mass grave with 25 bodies suspected to be Ethiopian migrants who were en route to South Africa.
The number of deaths from Malawi’s cholera outbreak has risen to 110, with Health Minister Khumbize Chiponda announcing on Tuesday that the disease has so far affected 3,891 people since March.
The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Malawi has risen by 69 percent over the past month, with official figures showing that the number of fatalities rose from 58 to 98 between August 25 and September 26.