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An aircraft carrying Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others is reported missing while flying from Lilongwe to Mzuzu.
2024-06-10

Malawi suspends the opening of schools in Lilongwe and Blantyre due to an outbreak of cholera, which has killed 595 people so far, including 19 people on New Year's Eve.
2023-01-2

After the results of the last general election in Malawi were annulled by the country's Constitutional Court in February, new elections are held.
2020-06-23

A manhunt is launched after hundreds of people, some with COVID-19, escape from quarantine centers in Zimbabwe and Malawi, with authorities worried that they will spread COVID-19 in countries whose health systems can be rapidly overwhelmed.
2020-05-28

The floods from the predecessor of Cyclone Idai cause 23 deaths and 11 missing in southern Malawi.
2019-03-9

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

Malawian President Joyce Banda sacks the national police chief, Peter Mukhito.
2012-04-9

Joyce Banda becomes the President of Malawi following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika.
2012-04-7

Riots erupt in Malawi in protest against the government of President Bingu wa Mutharika.
2011-07-20

President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika pardons a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison for "gross indecency and unnatural acts".
2010-05-29