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Malawi’s crusade against the coronavirus is going from putting its health system under strain to dragging it to breaking point.

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has appealed for at least US$220 million from the international community to help the southern African country to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to media reports monitored here on Friday.

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has declared a state of disaster and appealed for assistance to deal with a surge in COVID-19 infections in the southeast African country that has seen over 2,000 new cases and several high-level deaths over the past week.

Malawi was plunged into mourning on Tuesday amid reports that two cabinet ministers succumbed to COVID-19 within hours of one another.

The Malawi government has not committed to send troops to assist neighbouring Mozambique fight suspected Islamist insurgents who are wreaking havoc in the northern part of the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.

Malawi’s Cannabis Regulatory Authority has received a high number of applications from Malawians wishing to be licenced to marijuana for medicinal and industrial use, the body announced on Tuesday.

A Malawian court on Thursday unconditionally released self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife following their arrest on an international warrant after they escaped from South Africa while awaiting trial.

Malawi has voiced concern at the treatment accorded to President Lazarus Chakwera by South African authorities following a seven-hour hold-up at Pretoria’s Waterkloof Airforce Base as immigration and security officials barred some members of his delegation from boarding the presidential plane.

President Lazarus Chakwera has courted the ire of the Muslim community in Malawi over his government’s plans to establish a diplomatic mission in Israel, APA learnt here on Tuesday.

The Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) has cancelled the 2020 secondary school-leaving examinations in the wake of a scandal involving the leaking of test papers for a number of subjects.