Malawi’s foreign minister Nancy Tembo lashed out at Chinese foreign ministry’s African affairs department director general Wu Peng earlier this week after a video went viral where Malawian children were seen chanting racist phrases demeaning themselves. Tembo said the she felt ‘deeply pained and disgusted’. The news agency BBC upon further investigation through a documentary titled ‘Racism... 

Police in the Central African nation of Malawi have formally sanctioned the intervention of a famous Zambian witchdoctor in the southern part of that country to “cleanse the people of witchcraft,” the Nyasa Times has reported. According to the Malawian newspaper, the police “have disregarded the Malawi Witchcraft Act that denies the existence of witchcraft in the country and invited a witchdoctor... 

The Malawian police have arrested a teacher on charges of trying to sell an albino schoolgirl for thousands of dollars. On Tuesday, Phillip Ngulube was detained in Mzuzu, the capital city of Malwai’s Northern Region, while trying to sell an albino high school student to a Tanzanian man. Ngulube was “caught by police on his way to selling the girl to an alleged Tanzanian businessman for six... 

Causing a stink: The government of Malawi, led by Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, are planning to outlaw breaking wind. Breaking wind is set to be made a crime in an African country. The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders ‘who foul the air’ in a bid to ‘mould responsible and disciplined citizens.’ But locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be...