Malawi
Malawi's Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda, places COVID-19 vaccines in an incinerator, in Lilongwe, Malawi, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines because they had expired. The government incinerated over 19,000 doses of the vaccine at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe. According to Health Secretary Charles Mwansambo the vaccines were the remainder of 102,000 doses that arrived in Malawi on March 26 with just 18 days until they expired on April 13. (AP Photo/Jacob Nankhonya)
Malawi destroys 20,000 expired doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

By Gregory Gondwe May. 19, 2021 06:46 AM EDT

Ban of African stadiums puts World Cup qualifiers in doubt

By Peter Kanjere May. 04, 2021 03:55 PM EDT
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The African soccer confederation under new president Patrice Motsepe has banned 20 of its 54 member countries from using their stadiums...

FILE - In this Monday, March 29, 2021 file photo, numbers are handed out to people waiting to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre Malawi. Some Africans are hesitating to get COVID-19 vaccines amid concerns about their safety, alarming public health officials as some countries start to destroy thousands of doses that expired before use. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)
In Africa, vaccine hesitancy adds to slow rollout of doses

By Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 27, 2021 02:13 AM EDT

People wait to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre Malawi, Monday, March 29, 2021. Malawi is vaccinating health care workers, elderly and those with health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, using the AstraZeneca doses that arrived early in March. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)
Malawi starts vaccination drive with AstraZeneca from COVAX

Apr. 01, 2021 05:36 AM EDT

A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus

By Carley Petesch And Lori Hinnant Feb. 25, 2021 02:23 AM EST

A health worker attends to a COVID-19 patient at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital COVID-19 male ward in Blantyre, Malawi on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Malawi faces a resurgence of COVID-19 that is overwhelming the southern African country where a presidential residence and a national stadium have been turned into field hospitals in efforts to save lives. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)
Malawi setting up field hospitals to cope with virus surge

By Gregory Gondwe Feb. 03, 2021 03:13 AM EST

Malawi's new president urges all to root out corruption

By Gregory Gondwe Jul. 06, 2020 04:02 PM EDT
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi’s newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera has been inaugurated Monday in a small ceremony, following a last-minute change from...

A woman carrying a child on her back washes her hands at a polling station during a presidential election in Blantyre, Malawi, Tuesday, June 23 2020. Polls have opened in Malawi and voters began casting their ballots Tuesday in a rerun of the presidential poll after the courts nullified the results of the election held more than a year ago.(AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)
Malawi starts counting votes in rerun of presidential poll

By Gregory Gondwe Jun. 23, 2020 02:30 AM EDT

Malawi to go to polls again, after first election nullified

By Gregory Gondwe Jun. 22, 2020 04:49 PM EDT
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Voters in Malawi will return to the polls Tuesday to elect a president after the courts nullified the results of the election held more...

Joyce Muchenje,centre, poses for a photo with her three children, who all have albinism, outside their family home in Chitungwiza on the outskirts of Harare, in this Tuesday, June, 9, 2020. Muchenje used to provide for them by washing laundry and household cleaning for cross border traders at a busy border town before the lockdown, but now the border trade has stopped and Mutenje has run out of money to get the skin cream for her children. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
In Zimbabwe, people with albinism struggle against prejudice

By Farai Mutsaka Jun. 13, 2020 03:10 AM EDT

People are seen outside a prayer centre in Harare, Thursday May 28, 2020. Manhunts have begun after hundreds of people, some with the coronavirus, fled quarantine centres in Zimbabwe and Malawi while authorities worry they will spread COVID-19 in countries whose health systems can be rapidly overwhelmed.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Manhunts after hundreds flee quarantine in Zimbabwe, Malawi

By Gregory Gondwe And Farai Mutsaka May. 28, 2020 06:23 AM EDT

Zimbabwean migrant Fatima Fachi, who is blind, sits on her bed in her room in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 14, 2020. A total of 23 families of blind and disabled foreign nationals living in the dilapidated building and earning a living by street begging have been hard hit by South Africa's lockdown as they are forced to remain indoors. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars

By Bram Janssen Apr. 29, 2020 05:07 AM EDT

Two young girls sell groundnuts in front of an informational mural advising on precautions to avoid catching the new coronavirus, in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, April 2, 2020. Writing on wall in Swahili reads "To prevent the spread of coronavirus avoid congested places, stay at home, don't touch your nose, cover your mouth while coughing, wash your hands, call emergency toll free line when you suspect the symptoms". (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Africa faces an 'existential threat' as virus cases spread

By Cara Anna Apr. 02, 2020 01:29 PM EDT