malawi
23 May 2016
Up to 50 million people in Africa will need food by Christmas as a crisis across the continent triggered by El Niño worsens, the United Nations (UN) and major international charities have warned.
6 Apr 2015
Malawi has ordered police to shoot "dangerous criminals" who attack albinos in order to sell their body parts for witchcraft.
"Shoot every criminal who is violent when caught red-handed abducting people with albinism," the country's police chief Lexen Kachama told officers at the weekend, according to local media.
24 Mar 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will provide $18.1 million to Malawi after its government promised to tackle corruption.