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A Malawian judge has sentenced a Catholic priest and several others to prison terms ranging from 30 years to life over the murder of a man with albinism in March 2018.
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has broken his silence about the allegations that he benefitted from a corruption scandal in which a British businessman is accused of splashing millions to influence procurement decisions.
Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested the country former police chief George Kainja who is accused of a bribe from controversial British businessman Zuneth Sattar.
President Lazarus Chakwera has fired Malawi’s police chief but spared Vice President Saulos Chilima after both men were implicated in a high-profile corruption probe that has also sucked in more than 50 other public officials.
A Chinese national on the run from Malawi for allegedly filming children singing racist chants in Chinese has been arrested in neighbouring Zambia, a senior immigration official said on Monday.
A probe by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Malawi Police Service has unearthed widespread exploitation of men, women and children at a refugee camp in the southern African country.
Malawi is finalising an audit of the country’s foreign exchange reserves commissioned last year in the wake of the alleged falsification of information about compliance with an earlier International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, the Fund said Monday.
President Lazarus Chakwera has instituted a raft of measures to cut public spending as part of efforts to cushion Malawians from global economic headwinds triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war and the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Lazarus Chakwera has given Malawi’s anti-corruption watchdog to three weeks to furnish him with a report into allegations that his deputy and several senior government officials were involved in a money laundering and bribery scandal involving a British businessman.
Malawi plans to set up a special court to deal with corruption-related cases as part of government efforts to expedite trials of those accused of graft, a cabinet minister said late Wednesday.