Malawi President Fires Trade Minister After Protest Over Prices

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera fired his trade minister, a day after protests erupted in the capital over a cost-of-living crisis in the poverty-stricken southern African nation.

Vitumbiko Mumba, who was appointed labor minister last month, will replace Sosten Gwengwe in the trade portfolio, Chakwera said in a statement in parliament in the capital, Lilongwe, on Wednesday.