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Malawi’s energy regulator has allayed fears of a major fuel shortage, assuring motorists on Thursday that the country has more than enough stocks of petrol and diesel and that current stockouts at some filling stations are due to an ongoing truck drivers’ strike.
President Lazarus Chakwera will next week receive a democracy award on behalf of the Malawians on the sidelines of the 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York, a senior official said on Monday.
Malawi experienced a 72-percent rise in suicide cases during the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period in 2020, an official said on Monday.
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has reintroduced a measure that requires companies to dispose of part of their export proceeds to the central bank in a move aimed at improving the availability of foreign currency in the country.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has approved the transformation of its parliamentary forum into a regional parliament, ending years of contentions as some countries saw the move as a threat to their national sovereignty.
A Botswana national, Elias Magosi was on Wednesday unveiled as the new executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), taking over from Stergomena Lawrence Tax of Tanzania whose term ends this month.
President Lazarus Chakwera has fired Malawi’s Attorney General Chikosa Silungwe, according to media reports monitored here on Wednesday.
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 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.