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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.
The National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) has allayed fears of a shortage of fuel following days of panic-buying in the capital Lilongwe it attributed to logistical challenges.
The United Nations on Thursday appealed for additional funding to contain a cholera outbreak that is spreading to most parts of Malawi and has claimed at least 58 lives over the past five months.
The number of cholera cases in Malawi has almost trebled over the past three months despite a nationwide vaccination campaign that kicked off in May.
Malawi’s anti-corruption body has arrested its former head and the ex-director of the country’s state procurement agency for allegedly receiving kickbacks from controversial British businessman Zuneth Sattar.
Malawi’s economic growth rate is expected to decelerate to 1.7 percent in 2022 on the back of headwinds triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change and foreign currency shortages, the central bank said Friday.
Pressure is mounting on Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima to resign after he was named in a high-profile bribery and money laundering scandal involving controversial British businessman Zuneth Sattar.