Country Profile: Malawi

LANDS Minister Gladys Lundwe has said people living on the border between Zambia and Malawi should desist from accusations of intruding on each other's land because the boundary lines were designed by colonial rulers.

The Malawian government has again stood firm in the face of calls by the European Union (EU) to sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) -- even after top-level EU officials visited the southern Africa to convince it to put pen to paper.

The Malawian government's new cost-cutting prohibition on the hosting of conferences, training sessions and workshops on the shores of Lake Malawi has hit small-scale merchants who ply their trade on the roadsides and beaches of the fresh-water lake.

Since 2009 southern Africa is tackling a serious epidemic of measles which has already taken 758 lives, mainly in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho and South Africa.

The Malawi referee Raphael Anthony will officiate on Sunday, in Luanda, the match between the under-20 national teams of Angola and Gabon, in the first-leg game qualifying for the African Cup of Nations, set for 2010 in Libya.

body>June inflation rate slows to 7.5% y/y Malawi's annual inflation rate slowed to 7.5% y/y in June, from 7.8% in May, mainly triggered by continued seasonal lower food prices, the National Statistical Office

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Fr Martin Anwel Mtumbuka bishop of the new Diocese of Karonga in Malawi.

THIS year's Kulamba traditional ceremony of the Chewa speaking people of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique will be held on August 28.

Malawi's total debt accelerated 21% from MWK 237.80bn in June 2009 to MWK 288.1bn in December 2009, catapulted by an increased borrowing by Capital Hill on both the domestic and external fronts, the Ministry of Finance debt report has shown.

Financial crisis batters MEET fund managers The global financial crisis that saw shares on the Malawi Stock Exchange registering a downward turn affected the endowment fund for the Malawi Environmental Endowment Trust (MEET), which declined by 16%, its board of governors' chairperson Etta M'mangisa said on Friday. The trust's fund managers are Old Mutual plc (OML), which contributes two thirds, and Alliance One, which contributes the remaining stake. (Source: The Nation)

Mable Malinda wants to contest the local government elections but the independent candidate who is using her life savings to fund her campaign only has 500 dollars left in her bank account. She has already spent three times as much buying handouts for voters - an unofficial requirement when contesting elections in Malawi.

The Catholic Secretariat of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has announced the death of the Auxiliary Bishop for Lilongwe Diocese, Right Reverend Stanislaus Tobias Magombo.

Another year with a surplus harvest of maize, the staple food, is good news for Malawi, but dry spells in the south have left around 700,000 people in need of food assistance.

Money supply in the country increased by MWK 34.1bn last year to MWK 173.8bn, representing a 24.4% growth, a situation the Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA)

We are back from three weeks in Malawi where it was warm and sunny - except up at 2,000 metres up on the Zomba Plateau.

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Malawi on the occasion of your forty-sixth anniversary of independence this July 6. The ties between our countries are strong and supported by a robust exchange of people and ideas. Each year, many Malawian students journey to the United States and an active contingent of Peace Corps volunteers serve throughout Malawi.