| 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): 31,409 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 11,241 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,939 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2021) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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