Sources: BBC News
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
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
The floods from the predecessor of Cyclone Idai cause 23 deaths and 11 missing in southern Malawi. 2019-03-9
Former Malawian President Joyce Banda announces she is to return from three years of exile amid a corruption scandal. 2018-04-23
Police in Malawi arrest 140 people after nine people were lynched for suspected vampirism. 2017-10-20
Indonesia executes six people for drug trafficking including foreign citizens from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Brazil and the Netherlands withdraw their ambassadors in protest. 2015-01-18
Joyce Banda becomes the President of Malawi following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. 2012-04-7
Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika is taken to Lilongwe's intensive care unit after cardiac arrest and is reported to have died. 2012-04-5
At least eighteen people are killed during mass protests in Malawi. 2011-07-21
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