Malawi's old flag with a rising sun, left, is now out of official favour. Some opponents of the change have said the switch costs too much money. "We have to change everything that bears the old flag.

Malawi is returning to its 1964 independence flag, replaced in 2010 in an "attack on the country's nationhood" by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika.

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Malawi's parliament has approved a bill to revert to the old independence flag, two years after the late president Bingu wa Mutharika altered it, state radio reported on Tuesday. Parliament ...

Blantyre - A controversial change to Malawi's national flag of 46 years reflects a new era since 1964 independence from Britain, state radio on Sunday quoted President Bingu wa Mutharika as saying.

Malawi is to restore the national rising sun flag scrapped two years ago by the late president as “history cannot be rewritten”, the justice minister tells the BBC.

Malawi's old flag with a rising sun, left, is now out of official favour. Some opponents of the change have said the switch costs too much money. "We have to change everything that bears the old flag.

Until his warning, the BBC's Raphael Tenthani in Malawi says most government offices were still flying the old flag. The new flag features a full sun instead of the old flag's rising sun, to ...