Sources: BBC News
Peter Mutharika is sworn in for his second non-consecutive term as President of Malawi following his victory in last month's national election. 2025-10-4
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
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
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
Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. ban flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, and Eswatini due to the Omicron variant. 2021-11-26
The floods from the predecessor of Cyclone Idai cause 23 deaths and 11 missing in southern Malawi. 2019-03-9
Malawi cancels its hosting of the African Union summit after disagreements over the attendance of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court. 2012-06-8
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