The gay couple in Malawi, who were spared a prison sentence by a pardon, said on Tuesday they have split nearly six months after the wedding.

A Malawian gay couple who received a presidential pardon for sodomy have called President Bingu wa Mutharika a "caring father".

A gay couple from Malawi have kept out of the public eye after being pardoned and freed, in what a relative said was a deliberate decision.

Case of married gay couple in Malawi could become a test for emerging gay rights lobby where homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries.

Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday refused to hear the case of a gay couple arrested for holding the nation’s first public same-sex wedding.