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16 May – A man in Mponela is convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting an animated TikTok video of him dancing. [1]10 June – 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash: A Malawi Defence Force aircraft carrying Vice-President Saulos Chilima, former First Lady Patricia Shanil Muluzi and seven other people crashes in the Chikangawa Forest Reserve, killing everyone on board.
17 November – Police fired tear gas to quell an anti-government protest against deteriorating economic conditions and rising cost of living in Malawi. Hundreds of people poured onto the streets of the southern commercial hub of Blantyre, calling on President Lazarus Chakwera’s administration to take immediate steps to rein in soaring prices ...
The service sector accounts for 51.7% of Malawi's national GDP. Notable industries are tourism, retail, transport, education, health services, telecommunication and the banking sector. The Government of Malawi holds shares in many important companies, such as Malawian Airlines (51%) and Press Corporation Limited. Press Corporation Ltd. is the ...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, British colonial officials and settlers arrived in Malawi, then known as Nyasaland, with the British South Africa Company (BSAC) leading the colonization efforts. The BSAC was granted a charter by the British government to exploit the region's natural resources and establish colonial rule.
The city is Malawi's industrial centre with many manufacturing plants, having eight designated industrial areas: Makata, Ginnery Corner, Maselema, Limbe, Chirimba, South Lunzu, Maone and Chitawira. Of these Makata, Ginnery Corner, Maselema, Limbe, Chirimba and Maone are actively hosting industries whilst South Lunzu is yet to be developed.
See Malawi–South Africa relations. The colonial structures of Malawian labour export to South African mines continued after Malawi achieved independence in 1964. Led by dictator Hastings Banda, Malawi was the only African country to maintain close relations with White-ruled South Africa until the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela.
Malawi is a landlocked country in southern Africa. Malawi is one of the world's undeveloped countries and is ranked 170 out of 187 countries according to the 2010 Human Development Index. [1] It has about 16 million people, 53% of whom live under the national poverty line and 90% of whom live on less than $2 per day. [2]
Malawi devoted 5.4% of its GDP to education in 2011. Of this, 1.4% of the GDP went to fund higher education. Between 2006 and 2012, the number of students enrolled in higher education almost doubled to 12,203. [2] Malawi was ranked 107th in the Global Innovation Index in 2021, up from 118th in 2019. [4] [5] [6] [7]