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Former Malawian president Peter Mutharika is declared the winner of the presidential election, winning 57% of votes against the incumbent Lazarus Chakwera, who received 33%.
2025-09-24

Malawians vote to elect a president, the 229 members of the National Assembly, and 509 local government councillors.
2025-09-16

Hundreds of Malawians travel to Israel to work as farm labourers. Kondwani Nankhumwa, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, has questioned the secrecy of the deal amidst the governments awareness of the ongoing war.
2023-12-1

Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4.
2023-03-13

The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
2022-03-24

The Constitutional Court of Malawi annuls the result of the country's last general election due to various irregularities. New elections are being scheduled to be held within 150 days.
2020-02-3

Former Malawian President Joyce Banda announces she is to return from three years of exile amid a corruption scandal.
2018-04-23

The government of Malawi declares a state of emergency across the country over worsening food shortages caused by a severe drought that is affecting much of Southern Africa with about 2.8 million Malawians, or 20% of the population, facing food insecurity.
2016-04-13

Malawi suspends its anti-homosexual law amid a parliamentary and public debate on whether to repeal it altogether.
2012-11-6

The Parliament of Malawi reverts the Flag of Malawi to the original version used between 1964 to 2010. The outgoing flag was introduced in 2010 by the late President Bingu wa Mutharika.
2012-05-28