Malawi Navigation latérale fiche pays Dans cette rubrique Malawi Political and Economic relations France and Malawi France and Malawi Date of update: March 31st 2026 Information still valid as of today's date French presence The French community in Malawi is made up of around 60 nationals. The Malawian community in France counts around 20. Visits and meetings President Bingu wa Mutharika participated in the Africa-France Summits of 2005, 2007 and 2010. At the 2013 Summit, Malawi was represented by the country’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. In November 2020, President Chakwera travelled to France for the Paris Peace Forum. Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation French assistance to Malawi flows through multilateral channels (France is the second-largest contributor to the European Development Fund and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria), and is financing, by means of a debt relief and development contract signed in 2011, a cartographic inventory of the country’s mining resources (GEMMAP) entrusted to the French geological survey (BRGM) in 2016 in consortium with the geological services of South Africa (GTS) and Finland (GTK). Malawi has identified the mining sector as a pillar of its future growth. The cultural cooperation sector is becoming stronger and a support project for French-language teaching is underway, which is mainly focused on training Malawian teachers. Several projects are also being carried out to support civil society, including in the fight against early pregnancies. Useful link Embassy of France in Zimbabwe (also competent for Malawi)