A group of farmers queuing to buy fertiliser outside a shop in Bvumbwe, southern Malawi after the local currency was devalued.

www.topix.net | 5/17/12 9:20 PM

Paladin Energy Ltd. is pleased to advise that, after a meeting with the Local Staff Association and government officials on Tuesday evening, an agreement in principle was successfully achieved for a return to work by the striking Malawi employees.

www.topix.net | 5/16/12 12:03 PM

Heartbreaking: Vincent Oketch, 10, is bed bound, unable to walk and forced to wear girl's dresses and skirts because he cannot fit into shorts or trousers due to the condition Vincent Oketch, 10, is bed bound, unable to walk and forced to wear girl's dresses and skirts because he cannot fit into shorts or trousers due to the condition.

www.topix.net | 5/16/12 2:39 AM

Victor Kaonga interviews Kondwani Munthali who made history this month by becoming the first blogger to be awarded Media Institute of Southern Africa Blogging Award of the year in Malawi.

www.topix.net | 5/15/12 10:25 PM

[AIM] Maputo - Beira (Mozambique), 15 May (AIM) - Malawian President Joyce Banda said on Sunday that her government will use to the full the facilities offered by the central Mozambican port of Beira. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 4:55 PM

[GBCHealth] NEW YORK CITY (May 15, 2012) - The MDG Health Alliance, an innovative new private sector organization created and led by eminent business leaders to tackle urgent global health problems, was introduced today in the United States at the GBCHealth Conference. allafrica.com | 5/15/12 1:59 PM

JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. www.irinnews.org | 5/15/12 12:00 AM

The Malawi Terror Beast is the name given to an unknown cryptid that caused widespread panic and chaos in rural Malawi during the early months of 2003.

www.topix.net | 5/14/12 10:20 PM

[Commonwealth] Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced on 14 May 2012 that former Malawian President Dr Bakili Muluzi will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group to the Lesotho Parliamentary Elections, to be held on 26 May 2012. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 1:39 PM

[AIM] Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza stressed on Saturday night that the relations between Mozambique and Malawi should be "structured by an undertaking to make good neighbourliness a fruitful complement to development". allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM

[AIM] Maputo - The Mozambican and Malawian governments signed on Saturday in Maputo two memoranda of understanding, aimed at encouraging cooperation in the area of energy, and of political and diplomatic relations. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM

[AIM] Maputo - Malawian President Joyce Banda said in Maputo on Saturday that she hopes her state visit to Mozambique will improve relations between the two countries. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM

[AIM] Maputo - Malawian Foreign Minister Ephraim Chiume declared in Maputo on Friday that his government is committed to improving relations of cooperation and good neighbourliness with Mozambique. allafrica.com | 5/14/12 5:57 AM

[Daily News] MALAWI Queens have successfully defended Africa Netball Championship title at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam after beating Lesotho 58-19. allafrica.com | 5/13/12 1:14 PM

The Tufuhen of Cape Coast, Nana Kwame Adu, has revealed that the Traditional Council has resolved to portray the potentials of the Asafo Companies in the upcoming Fetu Afahye to tell the history of the former colonial capital.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 6:05 PM

[AIM] Maputo - The new President of Malawi, Joyce Banda, is to make an official visit to Mozambique from Saturday to Monday, at the invitation of her Mozambican counterpart, Armando Guebuza. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 3:55 PM

[State Department] Washington - Peace Corps volunteer Erica Ward of Asheville, North Carolina, is working with her community in Malawi to construct a girls' dormitory for the local boarding school. The new dormitory will enable more students to attend the school and provide additional classroom space for nearly 300 students. A portion of the funds for the project will be raised through the Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP), a program that helps support Peace Corps volunteer community projects worldwide. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 2:24 PM

Concluding our series on Africa, in association with Lonely Planet, Nana Luckham explores a small, unspoilt nation rich in rewards.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 1:55 PM

[Fahamu] Various forms of solidarity have been seen in Malawi recently. But effective solidarity can only be achieved when the elites shed their tendency to alienate those groups they see as 'illiterate', 'uneducated' and 'ignorant'. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 8:56 AM

[Fahamu] The late President Mutharika was hailed at home and abroad. But after the 2009 landslide re-election victory, his quest to engineer the election of his brother to succeed him in 2014 and increased autocracy astounded many. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 8:56 AM

[Fahamu] Although the Malawian constitution is clear about succession in the event of the death or incapacitation of the president, a cabal close to the late President Mutharika wanted to install their own man in power instead of Vice President Joyce Banda. allafrica.com | 5/11/12 8:56 AM

The Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi, has dispelled reports that the Police interrogated him at the weekend over unaccounted for funds for the ruling National Resistance Movement party.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 4:45 AM

Malawi's new President Joyce Banda gives a press conference on April 10, 2012 in Lilongwe.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 12:27 AM

Questions about dead presidents' legacies are best left to historians writing a generation removed.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 12:27 AM

Twenty years ago on March 8, 1992, Malawi's Catholic bishops authored a pastoral letter which triggered a political revolution that removed the Malawi Congress Party, and president-for-life Ngwazi Dr.

www.topix.net | 5/11/12 12:27 AM

Nsanje - Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi's southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: "The dream becomes reality.

www.topix.net | 5/10/12 7:13 PM

NSANJE, 10 May 2012 - Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi's southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: "The dream becomes reality.

www.topix.net | 5/10/12 3:58 PM

[IRIN] Nsanje - Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi's southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: "The dream becomes reality. Nsanje Port opens October 2010." But those who go to the port will find little more than a concrete quay with a couple of dozen mooring posts, and a few fishermen manoeuvring crude dug-out canoes through the murky brown waters of the Shire River. allafrica.com | 5/10/12 2:23 PM

[SAR] Henry Banda, son of Zambia's ex-president Rupiah Banda, lives in South Africa in self-imposed exile. And depending on who you speak to, he is either a refugee or a fugitive, the innocent victim of political persecution in his home country, or a corrupt man using his ill-gotten wealth to stay as far from justice as he can, for as long as he can. allafrica.com | 5/10/12 1:21 PM

[Daily News] THE first quarter tumble cost the national netball team, Taifa Queens's bid to record a victory against the Africa top ranking side Malawi Queens at the ongoing Africa Senior Challenge tournament at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday. allafrica.com | 5/10/12 11:36 AM

Malawi's new President Joyce Banda gives a press conference in Lilongwe. Banda said she was pinning her hopes on donors to re-open aid taps after she started talking to them on possible resumption of aid frozen over governance and macroeconomic concerns, April 10, 2012.

www.topix.net | 5/10/12 1:23 AM

A 30-year-old woman recently arrested at Entebbe Airport trying to sneak out six dry leopard skins has been charged with illegal trade and possession of illegal drugs.

www.topix.net | 5/10/12 12:23 AM

NSANJE 10 May 2012 (IRIN) - Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi’s southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: “The dream becomes reality. Nsanje Port opens October 2010.” But those who go to the port will find little more than a concrete quay with a couple of dozen mooring posts, and a few fishermen manoeuvring crude dug-out canoes through the murky brown waters of the Shire River. www.irinnews.org | 5/10/12 12:00 AM

A visit to Zimbabwe by popular Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua appeared in doubt, after pro-ZANU PF church leaders were wheeled out by the state media to make claims that he was not welcome in the country and that his teachings were allegedly "judgmental, partisan and unorthodox." At the centre of the story is the fact that Prime Minister ... (more)

www.topix.net | 5/9/12 7:09 PM

[IPS] Monrovia - The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent. allafrica.com | 5/9/12 5:01 PM

[The Star] Gabonese match officials will take charge of the Harambee Stars versus Malawi Fifa 2014 World Cup qualifying, match next month. Castane Otogo will abe the centre referee, Theophile Vinga will be the first assistant while Sylvian Moula will be the second Assistant. Roponat Mbourou has been appointed as reserve referee. allafrica.com | 5/9/12 3:24 PM

It hasn't taken long for new President Joyce Banda to put her stamp on Malawi. In just over a month, she's upset the African consensus on arresting Sudan's President Bashir, devalued the country's currency by half and in general been as different as possible from her late predecessor.

www.topix.net | 5/9/12 1:54 PM

New settlers work with iron and dominate earlier inhabitants who are considered to be "stone-age". 1480 - Bantu tribes unite several smaller political states to form the Maravi Confederacy which at its height includes large parts of present-day Zambia and Mozambique plus the modern state of Malawi.

www.topix.net | 5/9/12 10:44 AM

Joyce Banda became southern Africa's first woman leader in April 2012 when she stepped into the shoes of her predecessor when he died after a heart attack.

www.topix.net | 5/9/12 10:44 AM

[iMaverick] It hasn't taken long for new President Joyce Banda to put her stamp on Malawi. In just over a month, she's upset the African consensus on arresting Sudan's President Bashir, devalued the country's currency by half and in general been as different as possible from her late predecessor. This can only be a good thing, writes  Simon Allison. allafrica.com | 5/9/12 9:22 AM

Malawi activist says currency devaluation a good move toward restoring aid www.voanews.com | 5/9/12 1:21 AM

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers level playing fields and what the crisis between Sudan and South Sudan means for the Nuba people who are caught up in the middle of the conflict.

www.topix.net | 5/8/12 6:21 PM

AS Malawian High Court Judge, Lovemore Chikopa, prepares to fly in next week to preside over the tribunal set up to investigate three suspended judges, former legal adviser to late president Levy Mwanawasa, Darlington Mwape, says President Michael Sata was within his constitutional mandate when he took the action against the judges.

www.topix.net | 5/8/12 4:16 PM

Malawi Telecommunications Limited , the country's incumbent fixed line operator, has introduced a wireless broadband service based on WiMAX technology.

www.topix.net | 5/8/12 12:17 PM

President Joyce Banda fired Malawi's former first lady, Callista Mutharika, from her position as the coordinator for the Safe Motherhood Initiative, in which she earned $7 500 a month despite the country's dire economic circumstances of late.

www.topix.net | 5/8/12 8:08 AM

Malawi human rights group says the inquiry will investigate the role of cabinet ministers in the so-called “constitutional coup d’état” www.voanews.com | 5/8/12 6:32 AM

[ISS] President Joyce Banda fired Malawi's former first lady, Callista Mutharika, from her position as the coordinator for the Safe Motherhood Initiative, in which she earned $7 500 a month despite the country's dire economic circumstances of late. allafrica.com | 5/8/12 6:08 AM

Eritrean Airlines launched its first flight at Cape Town today. The flight landed from Asmara in Eritrea at 16h40 to a traditional water canon salute from Airports Company South Africa, Cape Town International Airport's Aerodrome Rescue and Fire Fighter department.

www.topix.net | 5/7/12 10:34 PM

Shoppers in Malawi scramble to buy basic goods, fearing huge price rises after the new government devalues the currency by 33%. www.bbc.co.uk | 5/7/12 4:57 PM

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