Malawi
There's some promising movement in extradition of the Bushiris
John Perlman spoke to foreign affairs journalist Peter Fabricius about what we could see in this case.
The last time the country saw a major currency devaluation was in 2012 when the Malawian kwacha was devalued by 33%.
If you don’t feel like taking excessively long flights, take advantage of living on one of the diverse continents in the world, and travel around Africa.
The Malawian health authorities have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in the capital Lilongwe, the WHO said.
“Do not accept a gift in exchange for using your office to give someone preferential treatment in the administration of a public service," Chakwera said at the swearing-in ceremony. "That is corruption.”
Scandal brewed in December when the then minister of lands, Kezzie Msukwa, was arrested on allegations that he had received a bribe from a wealthy businessman to give him land.
The death toll stood at 86 across Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi, as rescue crews battled on to access regions where roads and bridges had washed away.
Chakwera sacked his entire 33-member cabinet on Monday, vowing to 'confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials'.
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday sacked his entire cabinet over graft concerns, vowing to 'confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials'.
Dozens of countries have barred flights from southern Africa in a bid to keep the variant, named Omicron, off their shores.
Clement Chiwaya, who was 50, killed himself inside the parliament building, where he had gone to discuss vehicle benefits entitled to him when he left office in 2019.
Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo said that batch of 900,000 vaccines had been delayed by a recent surge in coronavirus cases in India, the world's main AstraZeneca supplier, which forced the country to temporarily halt major vaccine exports.
Eyewitness News last year uncovered a duty-free alcohol ring run by Lesotho diplomats.
The talks had been widely expected to decide on a reported proposal to deploy some 3,000 soldiers to Cabo Delgado, where insurgents have seized control of towns and villages, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
The meeting is expected to discuss the possibility of SADC deploying 3,000 troops to battle the insurgents.
The southern African country has so far received three batches of the AstraZeneca vaccine 300,000 doses under the Covax vaccine sharing facility, 50,000 from India and 102,000 from the African Union.
Capital punishment has long been mandatory in Malawi for prisoners convicted of murder or treason, and optional for rape.
In a televised address to the nation, Chakwera said the minister was named in an audit report as having listed the funds in his allowances for the travel to South Africa.
The complaint filed in London's High Court says women harvesting tea and macadamia nuts for Lujeri in southern Malawi were subject to at least 10 instances of rape and other violence at the hands of male supervisors.