Malawi hospitals under pressure as coronavirus cases surge

Covid-19 cases in Malawi are on the rise. Local hospitals are now on the edge as the country is hit with a second wave of the pandemic.
Malawi's former President Peter Mutharika
Malawi ex-President Mutharika loses bid to unfreeze his accounts
Malawi's former President Peter Mutharika's quest to remove restrictions on his bank accounts which were frozen as part of a corruption investigation has ended in failure.
File photo: Malawi already has a robust vaccine programme called Expanded Programme on Immunisation
Malawi and the difficult task of delivering vaccines in Africa
At the moment, Bwayira hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital is not suited to storing the covid19 vaccines which have been most successful in medical trials.
Former Malawian President, Peter Mutharika
Ex-Malawian president ordered to pay for mandate ‘defiance’
Malawi's High Court ruled on Friday for former President Peter Mutharika and former Chief Secretary to Government, Lloyd Muhura, to personally pay the entire cost of litigation for violating their constitutional mandate in light of their order to put Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda and another judge on leave pending retirement.
Malawian millionaire preacher, Shepherd Bushiri
Malawian millionaire 'Prophet' released without conditions
Malawian millionaire preacher, Shepherd Bushiri - who is also currently a fugitive of South Africa where a warrant was issued in Pretoria for his arrest under charges of theft, fraud and money-laundering involving over 5.5 million euros - was released on Thursday by a court in the capital Lilongwe.
Lazarus Chakwera is the President of Malawi
Malawi to become the first African country in decades to open an embassy in Jerusalem
Malawi says it will open an embassy in Jerusalem, the controversial capital of Israel, in the summer of 2021. This was made known by the country’s foreign minister, Eisenhower Mkaka, who is on a three-day trip to the Jewish state.
File Photo: Malawi police
Malawi police ordered to compensate rape survivors
The Malawi High Court on Thursday ordered the police force to financially compensate 18 women and girls who were raped and assaulted by officers in the small town of Nsundwe on the outskirts of the capital Lilongwe.