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July 19
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Malawi: Can Oil and Water Mix in Malawi?
Civil society's shorthand for Malawi's drive to expand its extractive resource sector is T2 - "trouble or treasure". Read more »
July 01
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Malawi: Small-Scale Miners Think Big
Near the northern Malawian town of Mzimba there is a vast crater hewn by hand with rudimentary tools, where miners earn US$1.50 a day "cropping" rose quartz from dawn until dusk.... Read more »
March 15
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Africa: Drought Response Requires Getting Development Right
GENEVA, 14 March 2013 (IRIN) - It takes more than weathermen and agriculture experts to design an effective drought response policy. Recognizing this, the World Meteorological... Read more »
March 01
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Malawi: Maize Smuggling Creates Hunger in Malawi [analysis]
Every morning, Bernadette Kilembe, from the northern Malawian town of Karonga, is confronted with two related problems: She has to keep her restaurant running, and she has to feed... Read more »
February 19
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Malawi: Malawi's Never-Ending Drug Shortage Problem
Malawi is again experiencing a crisis in the delivery of essential medicines, with understaffed clinics and erratic drug supplies preventing many dangerously ill patients from... Read more »
January 31
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Malawi: Family Planning Key to Slowing Population Explosion
The waiting area of a clinic in northern Malawi's Nkhata Bay resembles a kindergarten, with dozens of children running around or tugging on their mothers' skirts. On average, each... Read more »
January 25
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Malawi: More Ethanol Could Lighten Malawi's Fuel Bill
As fuel prices climb in Malawi, amid fuel shortages and a soaring inflation rate - prompted by a 50 percent devaluation of the currency - a new paper suggests a way to decrease the... Read more »
January 21
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East Africa: Horn Migrants Face Perils Fleeing South
On 20 June 2012, a group of undocumented Ethiopian migrants boarded a boat on the shores of Lake Malawi and headed southwards. A few minutes after departing, the overloaded boat... Read more »
January 17
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Malawi: Flooding Compounds Hunger Fears in Malawi
Several months of heavy rains in Malawi are threatening to undo any gains that farmers in the south may have made following a prolonged dry spell. Read more »
January 09
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Malawi: Nation Faces Tough Road of Economic Reform
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde urged Malawians to stick with tough economic reforms during a recent three-day visit to the country, but... Read more »
December 17, 2012
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Angola: Malawi-Angola - Some Facts On Food Crises and Response
Prolonged dry spells have driven almost four million people to food insecurity in Malawi and oil-rich Angola, in Southern Africa. Humanitarian aid agencies have been trying to... Read more »
October 16, 2012
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Malawi: No More Fertilizers but Trees
To keep its mostly maize-growing small farms productive through cycles of drought, Malawi spends 60 percent of its agricultural budget subsidizing fertilizers. But the findings of... Read more »
September 19, 2012
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Africa: Child Migrants Illegally Imprisoned
By the age of 16, Auguy Bingi* had lost a father and a brother to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), so he did not argue when his mother sent him to join... Read more »
September 18, 2012
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Malawi: Shrinking Lake Threatens Livelihoods
Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi's Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residents, who have long relied on the lake to earn a living, have to... Read more »
September 07, 2012
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Southern Africa: Locals Target Chinese Traders
In the last decade, Asian migrants have fanned out through southern Africa, opening shops in small towns and rural backwaters. While consumers in countries facing increasing... Read more »
August 30, 2012
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Malawi: Need for Food Aid Outpaces Response
Prolonged dry spells followed by poor harvests in Malawi's maize-growing central and southern regions have created widespread food shortages, yet it has taken months to fully... Read more »
May 18, 2012
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Malawi: Bumpy Road to Economic Recovery
A sizeable devaluation of Malawi's currency, aimed at reinvigorating the economy and wooing back international donors, has triggered steep increases in the price of basic goods and... Read more »
May 10, 2012
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Malawi: Dream Fades for Inland Port Project [analysis]
Visitors arriving in Nsanje, the sleepy capital of Malawi's southernmost district, are greeted by a large yellowing billboard announcing: "The dream becomes reality. Nsanje Port... Read more »
April 26, 2012
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Malawi: Without Land Reform, Small Farmers Become 'Trespassers'
Dorothy Dyton, her husband and seven children used to make a living farming just over a hectare near the town of Bangula in southern Malawi's Chikhwawa District. Read more »
April 12, 2012
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Malawi: 272,000 Need Food Aid Through Lean Season - Survey
Mary Lyford, a widow and subsistence farmer from Mbande village in southern Malawi's Chikhwawa District, has seven mouths to feed, besides her own, and little idea how she will... Read more »
February 09, 2012
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Malawi: Rising Prices and Looming Maize Shortages
Malawi's maize-growing central and southern regions have not had good rains, prompting concerns about possible shortages of the staple in the coming months. Read more »
January 06, 2012
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Southern Africa: Floods Leave Returnees Stranded
Several thousand Angolan returnees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded by floods in northeastern Angola. They are among the first casualties of... Read more »
December 19, 2011
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Malawi: Urban Poor Hit By Slew of Price Increases
Devaluation, fuel shortages and economic mismanagement have conspired to push staple food prices to "alarming levels" in urban areas of Malawi, where even catching a bus to work... Read more »
November 02, 2011
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Malawi: Tea Tells the Future of the Climate
Changing weather patterns are undermining the ability of smallholder producers in Malawi's southern region to grow tea, a crop that usually brings in 70 percent of their income,... Read more »
October 13, 2011
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Malawi: Govt Reduces Farm Subsidies After Aid Cuts
More than 200,000 Malawian farmers who depend on government subsidies to grow enough food to feed their families will have to go it alone when the agricultural subsidy programme is... Read more »
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