Sources: BBC News
Thirteen peacekeepers, including nine from South Africa, three from Malawi and one from Uruguay, are killed as fighting intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between government forces and M23 rebels, the latter backed by the Rwandan military. 2025-01-25
The wreckage of an aircraft which went missing yesterday in Malawi amid bad weather is found. All ten people on board, including the country's Vice-President Saulos Chilima, are confirmed dead. 2024-06-11
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera suspends all publicly funded international travel for government officials, including himself, until the end of March, as part of measures to address the country's economic challenges. 2023-11-15
The death toll from Cyclone Freddy increases to over 300, with most of the deaths occurring in Malawi. 2023-03-16
The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. 2022-03-24
Joyce Banda becomes the President of Malawi following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. 2012-04-7
Malawi adopts a new national flag, replacing the previous flag originally adopted in 1964. 2010-07-29
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
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, in a rare disagreement with another African state, issues a statement of condemnation following Malawi's sentencing of a same-sex couple to 14 years in jail. 2010-05-28
Malawi, considering them to be a gay couple, sentences a transgender woman and a cisgender man to 14 years of hard labour. 2010-05-20