The Latest Breaking News from Malawi

Opposition leader Kondwani Nankhumwa questions the secrecy of the deal and describes it as ‘an evil transaction’.

Malawian civil servants are asking for increased wages after recent currency devaluation worsened cost of living crisis.

More than 330,000 doses of the Mosquirix malaria vaccine have been delivered to Cameroon as part of efforts to ramp up immunisation across Africa. Cameroon is the first African country to receive the vaccine after pilot programmes in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.

The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01…

President Lazarus Chakwera announced austerity measures aimed at healing the economy.

Hospitals register thousands of people with infectious skin disease, months after wave of cholera swept African country

Malawi says its forex reserves are ‘nearly empty’. Its citizens say their pockets are emptying, too.

Striker discusses growing up in Malawi, missing out on the World Cup and her chances of being named CAF Women’s Player of the Year

Climate crisis blamed for extreme heat in African country, which has recorded temperatures of 43C

Letter: Christina Chilimba on how extreme weather events such as Cyclone Freddy in Malawi can affect the health and rights of women and girls

An estimated 800,000 people work as domestic workers in South Africa. Most are black women from marginalised backgrounds. It’s therefore not surprising that the bulk of the literature about domestic work focuses on females performing cleaning, cooking and care work. What’s missing in debates about domestic workers’ job-related experiences and…