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Checkout How Malawi came to have its name

Published on December 29, 2020 by Face of Malawi

The southeastern African country of Malawi did not become independent from British colonial rule until July 6, 1964, when the […]

Israel President Rivlin meets with Malawi VP Chilima

Published on September 3, 2014 by Face of Malawi

There were congratulations all round on when Saulos Klaus Chlima, the recently elected vice president of Malawi, called on President […]

MALAWI’S INEVITABLE CYCLE OF DISCONTENT: Reflections from 2012

Published on December 26, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

In this article, I argue that there is an inevitable cycle of discontent in Malawi that is as hard-wired into […]

Lake Malawi fossil could be oldest dinosaur ever found

Published on December 11, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Fossilised bones unearthed by a British palaeontologist in colonial Tanzania in the 1930s may be those of the oldest dinosaur […]

Lake Malawi talks collapse as public unhappy of government handling of dispute

Published on November 19, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

It was perhaps only inevitable that Malawi and Tanzania would hit a dead end in the bid to resolve their […]

Malawi minister tours border amid simmering tension with Tanzania

Published on October 13, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawian Foreign Affairs Minister Ephraim Nganda Chiume, on Thursday led a team of government officials on a tour of the […]

FAM declares war on Ghana

Published on October 11, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has declared war on the Black Stars of Ghana by calling on Malawians to […]

New map ‘clears’ the TZ-Malawi border row

Published on September 28, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The government yesterday issued a new map of Tanzania that, among other features, shows the disputed boundary between Tanzania and […]

Leave us out of Lake Nyasa border dispute: Germany

Published on September 27, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Germany, former coloniser of Tanganyika and party to the Heligoland Treaty of 1890 that readjusted the border between Tanzania and […]

Lake Malawi Saga: How Mwalimu Julius Nyerere dealt with Malawi’s claims

Published on August 11, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi’s absurd claims that the whole of Lake Nyasa, or as they stubbornly call it Lake Malawi, belongs to it […]