Disputes - international:
dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of the lake; the conflict was reignited in 2012 when Malawi awarded a license to a British company for oil exploration in the lake

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 11,315 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the); 5,260 (Rwanda) (2015)
IDPs: 107,000 (floods in 2015) (2015)