Lilongwe
Americannoun
noun
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After Mutharika failed to get the dogs back in November, the Lilongwe Magistrate Court temporarily barred police from further attempts to seize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
The dogs, valued at $2,300, were spirited out of the Lilongwe palace between Sept. 19 and Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
For the past few months Ms Kathumba, a divorced mother of four working in the capital, Lilongwe, has been struggling to survive on her salary because of the surging prices of goods in the market.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
At the time, 10 employees from a USAID-funded nonprofit had recently shown up unannounced at USAID’s offices in the capital Lilongwe asking for their unpaid wages after the U.S. froze funding.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
The chief’s people traveled a hundred kilometers to Lilongwe and summoned Mwase, who agreed to assist his brothers in Kasungu.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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