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The Latest Breaking News from Malawi

‘Everything’s gone up’: soaring inflation hits Malawi’s market trade

Farmers, entrepreneurs and sellers are struggling as rises in fuel and fertiliser prices make it harder to cover costs

The Guardian - UK

IMF, Malawi reach staff deal on $88 million emergency financing

The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that it had reached a staff-level agreement with Malawi for up to $88.3 million in emergency financing, as the southern African country struggles with acute forex shortages.

Reuters

More bodies, thought to be of Ethiopian migrants, found in mass grave in Malawi

Bodies of four men, believed to be en route to South Africa, found less than a mile from where 25 bodies were exhumed in Mzimba

The Guardian - UK

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25 bodies of migrants discovered in mass grave amid fears of genocide

The news comes as World Health Organization Director-General said there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in Ethiopia

Daily Mirror

Malawi close to sealing $54 million IMF emergency funding for economic shock

International Monetary Fund approval of up to $54 million of emergency funding for Malawi is likely in the next couple of days, sources said on Tuesday, as the southern African country struggles with acute forex shortages.

Reuters

Cholera vaccine to be axed from production despite WHO warning of 'turbocharged' spread

The world is facing an “unprecedented” series of deadly outbreaks from the disease, with Haiti, Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria, Malawi and Ethiopia all fighting waves now

Daily Mirror

Dumfries and Galloway football kit heading to Africa with University of Glasgow researchers

Walt Adamson, originally from Dalbeattie, is one of the scientists taking part in the research and awareness programme for sleeping sickness

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Dismay as key cholera vaccine is discontinued

Exclusive: halt to production of Shanchol vaccine alarms WHO amid ‘unprecedented’ global outbreaks

The Guardian - UK

Sophie says Queen was ‘so happy’ at Malawi’s elimination of trachoma eye disease

The monarch was aware before her death that the Countess of Wessex would be returning to the country soon to celebrate the development.

The Independent UK

Charles pays tribute to Malawi’s elimination of disease causing blindness

The World Health Organisation announced a few weeks ago that it had validated Malawi’s elimination of trachoma as a public health issue.

The Independent UK

‘Failing to cope’: Malawi faces surge in young people with mental ill health

A lack of services and psychiatrists, plus a fear of being stigmatised, can make it hard to get help

The Guardian - UK

Cannabis Reg. Update: Malawi, Legalization In Costa Rica And Albania. New Zealand On Biden's Pardon

Malawi's Cannabis Policy: Not Fair

Benzinga

Retired Auchterarder GP raises hundreds of pounds for charity after cycling 365 miles around Perthshire

Roger Paterson (61) completed the EMMS International’s sponsored Malawi Bike Ride which has traditionally taken place in the East African country

Daily Record

Heroin worth more than ₹100 crore seized at Mumbai airport; woman from Ghana among two held

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had laid a trap at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on a tip-off that a passenger travelling from Malawi, an African country, was trying to smuggle narcotic drugs into India

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Cholera outbreak in Malawi has killed 110 since March

Cholera has spread to 22 of Malawi's 28 districts, killing 110 people and infecting 3,891 people since March when the first case was reported, the health minister said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Prince Harry wildlife NGO under fire after elephants kill three in Malawi

African Parks, of which the royal is president, is one of three parties accused of rushing a mass translocation of the mammals

Evening Standard

Malawian Anticolonial hero Chilembwe unveiled on fourth plinth

A larger-than-life sculpture of an anticolonial hero has been unveiled as the newest artwork on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. Antelope by Samson Kambalu depicts John Chilembwe, a Baptist preacher who was killed in an uprising in Nyasaland, now Malawi, in 1915, and John Chorley, a European missionary. Chilembwe is wearing…

The Guardian - UK

Samson Kambalu’s Antelope review – an imperial showdown on the fourth plinth

The Malawian-born artist’s traditional bronze figures might suggest a win for the culture warriors, but they subversively celebrate an anti-colonial hero

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Evening Standard

Trafalgar Square fourth plinth: Statue of Malawi’s John Chilembwe unveiled

A larger-than-life sculpture of an anticolonial hero has been unveiled as the newest artwork on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.

The Conversation

Child marriage comes with a heavy cost for young girls in Africa – but there's one clear way out

650 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. That’s one of the startling figures contained in a 2021 UNICEF report about child marriage. Africa’s sub-Saharan region is home to nine of the ten countries with the highest rates of child marriage in the world.

Al Jazeera

World leaders pledge billions to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria

Donor conference on the sidelines of UN meeting raises record $14.25bn although UK and Italy delay pledge announcements.

Reuters

World leaders pledge billions to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria on UN sidelines

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Conversation

Three reasons why the US Federal Reserve Bank holds the world in its hands

Inflation is a global problem. At the end of August, it was 8.3% in the US and 9.1% in the Euro area. It is 20.3% in Nigeria, 25% in Malawi, and over 30% in Ethiopia and Ghana.

The Guardian - UK

Petrol pumps run dry across Malawi as fuel import problems deepen

Motorists forced to pay premium for smuggled black market fuel or drive to border with neighbouring Mozambique

WEKU

Whatever happened to the Malawian anti-plastic activist inspired by goats?

Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, after seeing goats dying from eating plastic bags, took on the plastic industry and won the Goldman Environmental Prize. But Malawi's plastic industry still poses challenges.

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