Charles Pensulo

Op­po­si­tion leader Kond­wani Nankhumwa ques­tions the se­cre­cy of the deal and de­scribes it as ‘an evil trans­ac­tion’.

In Malawi, floods have be­come more fre­quent and in­tense in re­cent years and the dam­age has been more dev­as­tat­ing.

Mi­grants say they are strand­ed with lit­tle sup­port from the au­thor­i­ties in their home coun­try or their adopt­ed one.

Nor­man Chisale for years head­ed Malaw­ian ex-Pres­i­dent Pe­ter Muthari­ka’s se­cu­ri­ty team. Now he faces cor­rup­tion charges.

The fugi­tive preach­er and busi­ness­man has re­turned to Malawi from South Africa where he is want­ed on fraud charges.

Doc­tors and nurs­es in Blan­tyre stage sit-in, re­quest gov­ern­ment to meet their de­mands amid coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

Rights groups con­demn clam­p­down be­fore elec­tion re­run, but gov­ern­ment says ar­rests are not po­lit­i­cal.