Eighteen-year-old man was arrested by Police in Lilongwe after he, identifying himself as Vice President, Saulos Chilima, called the police station’s senior officers ordering them to release a certain suspect.

The three South African owned shops Shoprite, Game and PEP stores were closed on Friday following a call from the consumer rights body Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) to have these shops closed as a way of expressing anger over xenophobic attacks happening in South Africa.

One more Malawian has died after being stabbed to death in Pietermarizburg in KwaZulu Natal on Wednesday bringing the total number of Malawians who have died from Xenophobic attacks in South Africa to three so far.

Malawi Electoral Commission will need K400.3 million to run by elections slated for 23 June this year in all some of the wards that currently do not have councilors.