Updated by Faith Barbara N Ruhinda at 1318 EAT on Tuesday 16 September 2025 Malawians are heading to the polls to elect their next president amid a deepening economic crisis in one of Africa’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries. The small Southeast African nation has been grappling with double-digit inflation, driving food prices to unprecedented…
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AU Kampala Summit To Adopt 10-Year CAADP Strategy For Agricultural Transformation And Food Systems In Africa.
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi, Ernest Benjamin Kivumbi and AU Press Unit. EAT 22:15. Thursday, January 09, 2025. MUNYONYO, UGANDA-Ministers of Agriculture from the African Union’s (AU) 55 member states have convened in Kampala, Uganda, for a three-day Extraordinary Summit aimed at advancing agricultural transformation and strengthening food systems across the continent. The summit, taking place…
Malawian Opposition Leader Charged with Plot to Assassinate President.
In Malawi, Patricia Kaliati, a senior figure in the opposition UTM party, has been charged with conspiring to assassinate the country’s President, Lazarus Chakwera. The 57-year-old politician, who currently serves as UTM’s secretary general, was detained last week under suspicion of “conspiring with others to commit a serious offence.” She made a court appearance on…
Malawi court rules anti-corruption Chief can stay on the job
By Jerry Omondi & E K Benj Malawi’s High Court has rejected an application by the government to uphold the suspension of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Martha Chizuma. Chizuma was suspended on January 31 after an audio clip that seemingly suggested she and other high-ranking officials were obstructing justice went viral. She was…
Malawi President strips VP’s power, fires police boss after corruption allegations.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0824 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Vice President Saulos Chilima Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended the powers of Vice President Saulos Chilima after the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) accused Chilima of accepting kickbacks in return for government contracts.The bureau’s findings come a month after Britain’s National Crime…
Wile polio case identified in Malawi.
By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 1240 EAT on 18 February 2022. Malawi has declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease in the first case of the wild polio virus in Africa in more than five years. The strain found in the child in Lilongwe has…
Liberian VP Jets in Uganda
ENTEBBE – Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and First Lady Janet Kataha Museveni on Tuesday hosted the Liberian Vice President H.E Dr Jewel Howard Taylor and her delegation at State House Entebbe. By Prossy S will updated at 0206 GMT on Wednesday 16th June 2021 Thanks In a tweet, Museveni said was glad to hear…
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