Sources: BBC News
The high court in Gauteng, South Africa, sentences seven Chinese nationals to 20 years in prison each for trafficking 91 Malawian workers and forcing them to labor under abusive conditions at a Johannesburg factory. 2025-09-10
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
The death toll from Cyclone Freddy increases to over 300, with most of the deaths occurring in Malawi. 2023-03-16
The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi increases to 225 people, mostly in the city of Blantyre. 2023-03-15
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
Malawi announces that public service workers, healthcare workers and journalists will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 beginning on December 20 amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections. 2021-12-16
Flash flooding continues since January 14 in the African nation of Malawi with at least 176 people killed and 110,000 displaced. 2015-01-16
The Cabinet of Malawi is dissolved by President Joyce Banda amidst a graft scandal. 2013-10-10
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
The same-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted of homosexuality under a British colonial law, tell Malawi's "The Nation" that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman. 2010-06-9