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Surplus-Swamped Malawi to Export Maize
allAfrica.com - Friday, April 13, 2007
ALAWI, bursting at the seams with surplus maize from two bumper harvests, will export 400 000 tonnes of the staple to Zimbabwe, the head of the state-run strategic maize reserve agency has ... more
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Condoms Get a Bad Rap
allAfrica.com - Friday, April 13, 2007
s we enter the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, prevention efforts have yet to come to grips with a deep-seated antipathy to condoms, particularly in southern Africa, the region worst affected by the ... more
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Eyewitness: Uganda attacks on Asians
Topix - Friday, April 13, 2007
p> Kampala resident Salim Matovu was at Thursday's protest against the allocation of a forest reserve to a sugar company, which turned violent leading to the death of at least three people. via BBC ... more
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Asians attacked in Mabira forest demo
Topix - Thursday, April 12, 2007
p> Military Police keep demonstrators in check at the Clock Tower on Entebbe Road. a man of Asian origin wipes away blood from his face after he and his wife were assaulted by the irate protesters By Gerald ... via New Vision ... more
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Zambia's Main Opposition Leader Sues Malawian Govt
Topix - Thursday, April 12, 2007
p> The leader of Zambia's main opposition United Patriotic Front, Michael Sata has filed a suit against the Malawian government for allegedly throwing him out of the country. via Voice of America ... more
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Divers search for bodies in Lake Malawi
Topix - Wednesday, April 11, 2007
p> Two police officers drowned after their patrol motor boat hit a rock and capsized on Lake Malawi, police said on Tuesday. via Independent Online ... more
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Waste Not, Want Not
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
n many parts of Malawi, discussing human excreta is taboo. The mere mention of faeces, in any of the country's 10 official languages, makes those taking part in the conversation uncomfortable. But, excreta could be about to gain ... more
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Catholic Church Seeks Injunction Against Mining Company
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
alawi's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC) has joined other NGOs in a legal bid to block Australian mining company, Paladin from opening a controversial uranium mine in the ... more
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MALAWI: Turning the future into charcoal
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Friday, July 07, 2006 (IRIN) - Chopping down the forests for charcoal and fuel wood seems so shortsighted, but until there are alternative sources of energy for Malawi's rural poor, the destruction will ... more
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MALAWI: Huge relief if debt cancelled
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Thursday, July 20, 2006 (IRIN) - The children's ward at Malawi's Kamazu Central hospital is permanently packed. Anxious parents cradling children weak from malaria or malnutrition wait interminably for attention from harassed staff, hoping when their turn comes the right drugs will be ... more
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MALAWI: Parliament calls for better education
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Friday, July 21, 2006 (IRIN) - Members of Parliament (MPs) meeting in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, to discuss the 2006/07 budget have called for the education system to be overhauled, with the abolition of community day secondary schools (CDSSs) as one of the ... more
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MALAWI: New twist in political drama
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Friday, July 28, 2006 (IRIN) - It was a case of 'don't touch that dial' in Malawi this week: first former president Bakili Muluzi was arrested on corruption charges, then, just hours later, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Gustav Kaliwo, was ... more
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MALAWI: Standoff over new public prosecutions director
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Tuesday, August 29, 2006 (IRIN) - Malawi's parliament is stalling the appointment of a new director of public prosecutions until President Bingu wa Mutharika explains why he fired the previous ... more
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MALAWI: Good but uneven harvest leaves pockets of hunger
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
OHANNESBURG Thursday, September 21, 2006 (IRIN) - A bumper harvest has pushed the number of needy Malawians down to the lowest level in four years, but pockets of hunger are still a cause for concern, a crop assessment official has ... more
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MALAWI: Call for law to ensure people never go hungry
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Tuesday, October 03, 2006 (IRIN) - Two international rights nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) have backed a call by Malawian civil society for a law to ensure that people always have enough to ... more
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MALAWI: Madonna takes a new baby home
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Friday, October 13, 2006 (IRIN) - Pop star Madonna's act of plucking an orphaned child from Malawi to give it a better life has triggered concern and confusion, and has even conjured up images of slavery among people living in one of the world's poorest ... more
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MALAWI: Calls for review of law in wake of Madonna adoption
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Tuesday, October 17, 2006 (IRIN) - Madonna's "bending of the rules" in her haste to adopt 13-month-old David Banda is sending a message to child traffickers that Malawi is open for business, a southern African child welfare organisation ... more
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MALAWI: Illegal orphanages mushroom
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Friday, October 20, 2006 (IRIN) - There are over a million orphans in Malawi, half of whom have lost one or both parents to AIDS, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), but only 15 out of almost a thousand orphanages are registered with the Ministry of Women and... more
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MALAWI: Show us the money, says UN AIDS envoy
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ILONGWE Monday, October 30, 2006 (IRIN) - A visiting UN envoy has accused the world's wealthiest countries of failing Malawi, which is struggling to take care of more than two million orphans and vulnerable ... more
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MALAWI: AIDS treatment fails to reach remote lakeshore community
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
KHATA BAY Thursday, November 16, 2006 (IRIN) - The challenges of achieving the Malawian government's goal of universal access to anti-AIDS treatment are nowhere more apparent than in Usisya, an isolated community on the northern shores of Lake Malawi, where treatment is not yet ... more
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