Malawi's president has been elected as leader of the African Union, a position held by the eccentric dictator Moammar Gadhafi of Libya for the last year. Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika was selected by the continental body at its annual summit Sunday. The chairmanship ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, failing in his bid to stay on as chairman of the African Union for another year, said on Sunday the pan-African grouping wasted time while failing to meet global challenges. On the first day of a summit in Addis Ababa, Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika was selected to succeed Gaddafi, even though ...

LILONGWE (Reuters) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to raise its health funding aimed to reduce maternal mortality in Malawi, Melinda Gates said on Tuesday. Gates, the co-founder and co-chairperson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told Reuters during her two-day visit to the impoverished southern African country that she was impressed with the progress made by Malawi ...

A Malawian cabinet minister said Thursday she would appeal the court acquittal of a woman accused of abusing two teenage girls, amid on ongoing trial of the country's first publicly wed gay couple. Minister of women and child development Patricia Kaliati said the 42-year-old woman, who was acquitted on Tuesday, was "persona non grata" in her constituency in the ...