Malawi News

CLOSE to $260m worth of goods was traded between Uganda and southern Sudan last year, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, the trade state minister, has said.

This is the first in a series of articles from Uganda by Xtra freelance reporter Kaj Hasselriis.

Police officers look into the septic tank where the body was found in Bukasa, Muyenga [INSET: The deceased Brenda Karamuzi; Suspect Tom Nkurunjira] By Steven Candia and Eddie Ssejjoba THE Police at the weekend recovered the body of a young woman dumped in a septic tank of a house in a Kampala suburb and arrested a businessman, suspected to be her ...

The African Union Summit concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday with newly elected AU chairman Bingu Wa Mutharika, of Malawi, encouraging African leaders to make agriculture and food security a top priority, Angola Press reports .

Madonna is giving back to the country that gave her David, her son, in a big way by building an eco-friendly academy for girls in Malawi's capital city, Lilongwe.

Liz thanks event organisers, tennis coach Andrew MacCallum, left, and Danny Curtis.

In the African nation Malawi, sexual contact between consenting adults of the same gender is illegal--and even non-sexual conduct can bring charges grounded in the country's "decency laws." Such was the case when two men, 26-year-old Steven Monjeza and 20-year-old Tiwonge Chimbalanga, allegedly hosted a public celebration of their union as gay life ...

Saturday Monitor has interviewed several lawmakers and other active politicians, including former MPs, and a list has emerged of politicians who are said to "have lost the fire" that once defined them.

A high court judge's denial of bail to Malawi's first openly gay couple as their trial in Blantyre enters its final phase continues to draw international attention from gay rights advocates.

Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi has failed in his bid to stay on as chairman of the African Union for another year.

Malawians are digesting news that the country's president Dr Bingu wa Mutharika will engage his former tourism minister Callister Chimombo on Valenetine's Day 14 February.

In its 24 January 2010 edition, The Sunday Times for a fifth year running carried out a special supplement that has assessed President Bingu wa Mutharika and his 21 ministers on their governance performance from May to December 2009.

Two Ugandans died and five others sustained severe injuries when a building under construction on Luwum Street in Kampala collapsed on Tuesday morning.

By Charles Ariko THE director in-charge of plantations at the National Forestry Authority was yesterday charged with giving a bribe of sh4.3m to an auditor.

The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 25, 2010 appointed as Auxiliary of Blantyre Fr.

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met and held discussions over oil deal with Aiden Heavey, the chief executive officer of Tullow Oil, the Irish company currently exploring oil in western Uganda.

Dar es Salaam - Armed robbers killed 14 villagers on a Lake Victoria island after the residents tried to stop them leaving by boat with goods they had stolen, a local official said on Monday.

While the world is fixated by the horror in Haiti little attention has been paid to at least 30 earthquakes that have rocked Malawi in the past month -- the largest measuring 6,2 on the Richter scale.

CARING nurse Theresa McLaughlin has just returned from Malawi after handing over vital equipment to the country's most needy people and now she's preparing to do it all again.