Cannabis Enforcement TrackerbyCannabis Freedom IndexCFI ↗955

🇲🇼 Malawi

2 reports of cannabis enforcement.

2
Reports
1
People arrested
5,000
kg of cannabis

Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.

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  • Held in a genebank
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  • No seed lot recorded

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Reports

20262 reports

    • Seizure🇲🇼 Malawi

      Truck driver held with 26 bags of chamba under maize at Phalula

      Police at an adhoc roadblock at Phalula, Balaka, stopped a KelFoods company van travelling from Lilongwe to Blantyre on 23 October 2026 and found 26 bags of chamba hidden under 135 bags of maize and egg crates. Driver George Benson, 41, said he loaded the cannabis at Chilanga, Kasungu, for delivery to a woman in Blantyre.

      Arrested 1
    • Seizure🇲🇼 Malawi

      Police burn five tonnes of seized cannabis at Senga Bay

      Salima police destroyed about five tonnes of cannabis sativa at Senga Bay on 28 January 2026, burning the drugs under the Police Act and Dangerous Drugs Act provisions that allow disposal of seized drugs after six months with no arrests or claims. The cannabis had been intercepted in roadblocks and stop-and-search operations along major roads.

      Cannabis 5,000 kg

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