Malawi government has received an insurance payout of $11.2 million to assist in recovery efforts following a devastating drought caused by El Niño. The funds were presented during a ceremony in Lilongwe, the nation’s capital, on August 2, and was attended by President Lazarus Chakwera. The insurance payment, aimed at …
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MALAWI’S main opposition party, the Democratic Progress Party (DPP), has endorsed former President Peter Mutharika as its candidate for the upcoming 2025 presidential election. The decision was made public on Sunday during the party’s national convention in Blantyre. Mutharika, now 84, served as Malawi’s president from 2014 to 2020. In …
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Malawi, a country highly vulnerable to climate shocks and widespread hunger, is taking a crucial step to improve food security for its citizens. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government have launched a $53 million agricultural development programme aimed at commercialising agricultural production and enhancing the resilience …
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Malawi police have arrested Member of Parliament Kamlepo Kalua and activist Bon Kalindo for their controversial social media posts regarding the June 10 plane crash that resulted in the death of Vice President Saulos Chilima and eight other officials. In a statement dated Friday, national police spokesperson Peter Kalaya confirmed the …
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The burial of Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who tragically died in a plane crash on Monday, will be held on July 17, the government announced. Chilima, along with eight others, was flying towards a northern town when the military aircraft they were on disappeared from airport radars due to bad weather. …
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THE United States offered its condolences to Malawi on Tuesday following a tragic aircraft crash that killed 10 individuals, including Vice President Saulos Chilima. ‘Saddened to learn an aircraft carrying Malawian VP Chilima and nine others has crashed,’ US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote on X. ‘The United States offers …
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President Bola Tinubu extends his sincere condolences to His Excellency, President Lazarus Chakwera, and the people of Malawi over the passing of Vice-President Saulos Chilima and other officials in a plane crash. President Tinubu commiserates with the families of the deceased over this deeply distressing incident, which happened on a …
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Malawi’s vice president and nine others were killed in a plane crash, the country’s president said Tuesday. The wreckage of the military plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima was located in a mountainous area in the north of the country after a search that lasted more than a day. There …
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MALAWI has taken action after 12 of its farm workers were deported from Israel for violating employment contracts by leaving their assigned duties to work at a bakery. The confirmation came from Malawi’s Minister of Information and Digitisation, Moses Kunkuyu, who addressed the situation on Tuesday. According to Kunkuyu, the …
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IN a significant turn of events, a court in Malawi has dismissed corruption charges against Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima, removing a key obstacle to his potential bid in the forthcoming presidential election slated for next year. Chilima, who was apprehended in 2022 on allegations of corruption, was accused by Malawi’s anti-corruption …
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